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Edition:
First Edition [stated], presumed first printing
Publisher:
Agam Prakashan
Published:
1986
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18042895703
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Very good in Very good jacket. xvi, 239, [1] pages followed by a section of plates/photographs. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. The dust jacket is in a plastic sleeve. Sticker scuff on fep. Forword by General Mohan Singh. T. R. Sareen retired as Director Indian Council of Historical Research. Prior to that, he was Assistant Director National Archives of India and served as consultant with the Government of Kenya on Records Management. He was General President, Punjab History Congress and Vice President of the International Associations of the Historians of Asia, Singapore. Educated at Punjab University, where he obtained his Ph.D. He was a Visiting Fellow at Heidelberg, Tokyo, and Senshu Universities. He was Senior Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden. His recent publications include Indian Revolutionaries, Japan and British Imperialism, Japan and the Indian National Army, Subhas Chandra Bose in Germany, Indian National Army: A Documentary Study [5 Volumes], Japanese Prisoners of War in India 1942-1946, Looking at the Transformation of China, Jinnah, Linlithgow and the Making of Pakistan, and Documents on Neglected Part of India's Freedom Struggle [2 Volumes]. This book is a rare copy of the history of India in its long struggle for freedom written by Dr. T. R. Sareen who was the Director, Indian Council of Historical Research, was formerly Assistant Director in the National Archives of India. Additional information on this author is presented on the inside of the rear flap of the jacket. Quotes from the front flap of the jacket: "India's struggle for freedom was unique in the sense that it was carried on two fronts i.e. one inside the country which believed in achieving it by non-violent means and the other carried on from abroad which tried to attain it by violent means. This monograph is in continuation of the author's earlier studies relation to the activities of Indian revolutionary nationalists abroad for the attainment of India's independence. In their bid to overthrow the British, they sought help from many foreign powers." The present study focuses upon the activities of Indian revolutionaries in East Asia after the Russo-Japanese war and its culmination in the formation of the INA with Japanese help. Based on the critical examination of the sources in India and abroad the author has provided a detailed analysis of the dramatic events after the Pacific War to the formation INA by Captain Mohan Singh, his distrust of the Japanese intentions and ultimate clash leading to his internment in Sumatra, on the formation of the Provisional Government and heroic exploits of the INA under the dynamic leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose. Although the INA was defeated after the fall of Japan and failed in its goal to oust the British, nevertheless it succeeded in generating patriotic spirit among the people. Even those people who had all along abhorred the cult of non-violence, sympathized with the INA officers when they were put on trail, which made it difficult fort the British to continue. The Indian National Army (INA) was a collaborationist armed unit of Indian collaborators that fought under the command of the Japanese Empire. It was founded by Mohan Singh on September 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. It fought under the command of the Japanese military in the British campaign in the Southeast Asian theater of WWII, with its aim to secure Indian independence from British rule. The army was first formed in 1942 under Mohan Singh by Indian prisoners of war (POWs) of the British Indian Army captured by Japan in the Malayan campaign and at Singapore. This first INA, which had been handed over to Rash Behari Bose and Mohan Singh, collapsed and was disbanded in December that year after differences between its leadership and the Japanese military over its role in Japan's war in Asia. The INA was handed over to Subhas Chandra Bose. It was revived under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose after his...
