A World View on The Netaji

Victories Reversed: The 1938-9 Clash of Mohandas Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose By Will Woodworth February 3, 2012 http://middlab.middlebury.edu/ files/2012/05/ Woodworth_VictoriesReversed1.pd f " Acknowledgments This thesis would bear only a slight resemblance to its current form if it were not  for the wonderful opportunity that I enjoyed in June 2011 to undertake primary source research at a series of archives in London. For two weeks, I split my time between The National Archives, which house records on Subhas Bose’s wartime activities, the sound archive at the Imperial War Museum, which contains a number of oral history interviews with those who knew Bose, and the British Library, which hosts the records of the British colonial administration in India.

By T J S George 14th July 2012 11:26 PM A return to the theme of Subhas Chandra Bose is necessitated by the “discovery” of two books. Both are by Lt. Manwati Arya who was born in Burma and joined the INA’s women’s wing, the Rani Jhansi Regiment, in her early 20s. Patriot (2007) is a “personalised biography” of Netaji. It is flowery and exaggerated: Bose’s marriage to Emilie Schenkl is called “the divine wedlock”. Judgment: No Aircrash, No Death (2010) is a compendium of records and stories about Netaji’s widely reported death in Formosa in an aircrash. The burden of the book is that both the aircrash and the death were figments of Japan’s—and Netaji’s—imagination and that in fact Bose escaped to Russia, then made his way to India. (With Japan collapsing in the war, the British were planning to arrest Bose. Which would explain his eagerness to avoid landing in Japan). These are not books* in the modern idiom, with style and polish making for pleasurable reading. But they contain h

Gandhiji paid his tribute to Netaji in the following words, 'The greatest lesson that we can draw from Netaji’s life is the way in which he infused the spirit of unity amongst his men so that they could rise above all religious and provincial barriers and shed together their blood for the common cause. His unique achievement would surely immortalise him in the pages of history'. http://www.rrtd.nic.in/bionetaji.html