BOSE OR GANDHI: Who Got India Her Freedom? by G D Bakshi

Author:G D Bakshi [Bakshi, G D]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: KW Publishers
Published: 2019-01-24T04:30:00+00:00

“To regain control of the situation and to restore essential communications within the country, nothing short of an organised campaign for the reconquest of India is likely to suffice.”

The appreciation concludes flatly: We must be prepared to deal with well organised revolution next Spring, and the possibility of a serious, but less well organised rising at any time during the coming winter. Such was the impact of the INA trials. It is essential to read this report in full to get a true feel of those times and the panic that was sweeping the British military high command. The report is produced verbatim on the following pages and is a most invaluable document for study and analysis by historians. This is the single most credible and authentic piece of evidence of the impact of the INA of Bose on the British decision to finally quit and depart in a tearing hurry after their major victory in the Second World War. This is a clinching document and primary evidence to settle that historical debate forever.

The appreciation is followed by responses from the Chiefs of Staff Committee in London and replies thereto. This documentation is most vital and clinching evidence. The appreciation of the Commander-in-Chief India provides empirical evidence of the great psychological impact of the INA trials and the unrest within and outside the British Indian Army as a direct consequence of these trials. The Military appreciation leaves nothing to the imagination and candidly highlights the fact that Indian Soldiers can no longer be relied upon to act against their own countrymen and should that happen, the British troops then available in India would be wholly inadequate to control the situation. Even piecemeal reinforcements of White troops would be of no avail. It would virtually need five British divisions to mount a campaign for the re-conquest of India. So dire was the situation perceived to be. The simple fact was that the British troops were desperately homesick and just anxious to get back home. They were in no mood to fight 2.5 million armed Indian soldiers who had just seen extensive combat in the war in almost every theatre. Those five British divisions were just NOT available.

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