The INA Trial and the Raj

The INA Trial and the Raj

Author: Harkirat Singh

Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9788126903160

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Last Days Of India S Freedom Struggle Had Many Distinct Features Leading To The Abolition Of The Raj. Among The More Important Of Them Was The Trial Of The Ina Personnel, Who Had Fought Against The British Under Subhas Chandra Bose In East Asia With The Object Of Achieving The Indian Independence. The Author Has Made A Sincere Attempt To Present British Reaction Towards The Ina In General And Towards The Adventures Of Shah Nawaz Khan, Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon And Prem Kumar Sahgal, In Particular. The Three Under Trials Belonging To Different Religious Communities Became A Symbol Of Communal Unity And Amity Welded By A Burning Desire To Free The Country From Foreign Yoke. The Book Is An In-Depth Study Of The Ina Trial. The Author Incorporates The National Upsurge Against The Trial, Which Not Only Contributed To The Release Of The Trio, But Also To The Winning Of Indian Independence From The Rule Of British Colonialism.The Book, It Is Hoped, Will Be Of Great Value For Students, Research Scholars And Teachers Of Modern Indian History. The Legal Points Raised In The Trial Are Of Great Interest For The Lawyers, Common Readers Will Also Find The Book Interesting.


The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars

The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars

Author: Gajendra Singh

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-01-16

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1780938209

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In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience? How much did their testimonies realise and reflect their own fragmented identities as both colonial subjects and imperial policemen? The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars draws upon the accounts of Indian combatants to explore how they came to terms with the conflicts. In thematic chapters, Gajendra Singh traces the evolution of military identities under the British Raj and considers how those identities became embattled in the praxis of soldiers' war testimonies – chiefly letters, depositions and interrogations. It becomes a story of mutiny and obedience; of horror, loss and silence. This book tells that story and is an important contribution to histories of the British Empire, South Asia and the two World Wars.


The Raj Quartet (2)

The Raj Quartet (2)

Author: Paul Scott

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 2007-07-03

Total Pages: 1034

ISBN-13: 0307263975

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The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indian independence from Britain. In The Towers of Silence, Barbie Batchelor, a British missionary and schoolteacher, befriends a British family and witnesses the trial of Hari Kumar, an Indian man accused of assaulting his beloved Daphne Manners, while observing the dangerously cruel Captain Ronald Merrick, Hari’s nemesis. In A Division of the Spoils, the chaos of the departure of the British and the fervor of Partition wreaks havoc upon the twilight of the Raj — and the end of a era. On occasions unsparing in its study of personal dramas and racial differences, the Raj Quartet is at all times profoundly humane, not least in the author’s capacity to identify with a huge range of characters. It is also illuminated by delicate social comedy and wonderful evocations of the Indian scene, all narrated in luminous prose. The other two novels in the Raj Quartet, The Jewel in the Crown and The Day of the Scorpion, are also available from Everyman’s Library. With a new introduction by Hilary Spurling


The Indian Autobiographies in English

The Indian Autobiographies in English

Author: RCP Sinha

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2013-02-28

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1481784943

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Self-portrayal has become an integral part of modern culture and India equally shares this universal mood. A large number of Indians have committed themselves to the writing of their autobiographies in English as well as in the regional languages. It is exciting to know that those in English have been produced by some of the finest minds of the country, such as Raja Rammohun Roy, Lal Behari Day, Surendra Nath Banerjea, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, P.C. Roy, S. Radhakrishnan, Sachchidanand Sinha and Nirad C. Chaudhury. It is highly fascinating to read their testimony in the shaping of modern Indian history. Even more exciting are the glimpses into their private lives and the interrelation between the portrait and the man. This study is the first comprehensive attempt to critically evaluate these works and shows how in modern times Indians begin to get over the proverbial Indian inhibition in talking of private affairs hesitatingly first and then with a devastating even embarrassing frankness. This study, in passing also tries to dispel the impression that no autobiographical tradition existed in ancient and medieval India.


The Indian National Army and Japan

The Indian National Army and Japan

Author: Joyce Lebra

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 9812308067

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This study traces the origins of the Indian National Army in the imagination of Iwaichi Fujiwara, a young Japanese intelligence officer, and the relationship between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Indian National Army as it evolved under the leadership of Bengali revolutionary, Subhas Chandra Bose. The study is unique in its use of Japanese archival sources for analysis of the relationship between Japanese policy formulation and the Indian independence movement in its military phase.


Rewriting Indian Politics from Gandhi to Modi

Rewriting Indian Politics from Gandhi to Modi

Author: Bikram Keshori Jena

Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers

Published: 2024-01-15

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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The book attempts to establish dialogue and build bridges in these polarizing times when politics divide us more than at any time. By focusing on significant nation-builders, from Mahatma Gandhi to Narendra Modi, the book makes a compelling case for going beyond the narrow ideological divide and welcomes the readers to engage with the unison and integration of political thoughts and actions. The book argues that starting from Gandhi, Nehru, Bose, Savarkar, Ambedkar, Patel, Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, VP Singh Chandrasekhar, Narasimha Rao, and Atal B. Vajpayee, Modi is only taking forward the nation in Amrit Kaal on the lines which his predecessors drew. The book shows the amalgamation of ideological diversities in national unity!


A Division of Spoils

A Division of Spoils

Author: Paul Scott

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 022603464X

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The conclusion of the “majestic” quartet about the waning days of the British empire in India, “a commanding achievement” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). After exploiting India’s divisions for years, the British are departing in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, A Division of the Spoils illuminates one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India. “[These] novels are a spectacular explosion of history set off within the lives of a dozen or so Britons and Indians on the edges of vast change . . . If you want to know where the political world we now live in began, Paul Scott’s novels are a place to start.” —The New York Times Book Review “A rich novel of manners . . . Politics, cultism, police and military interrogation—all moving toward inevitable murder and violence—are integral parts of a carefully crafted, complex novel.” —Library Journal


Subhash Chandra Bose

Subhash Chandra Bose

Author: Hugh Toye

Publisher: Jaico Publishing House

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 8172244010

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Hugh Toye’s study of Subhash Chandra Bose is valuable on three counts: as a history of a little known facet of World War II, as a study in Anglo-Indian relations over a vital period, and as a study of the new kind of leaders in Asia. The story of Bose’s life is of absorbing interest, and the author makes him live in all his idealism, fiery nationalism, political astuteness and overriding arrogance. But more important are its implications, which must make the reader seriously rethink the role of European-Asian relations and, in rethinking, arrive at a better understanding of what is happening now and what may happen.