Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
A big question: What made Britishers leave India in 1947?
- In the meeting between british MPs and Sir Clement Attlee in Feb 1946,
The british MP said:
"There are two alternative ways of meeting this common desire
a) that we should arrange to get out
b) that we should wait to be driven out,
In regard to (b) the loyalty of Indian Army is open to question; the INA have become National heroes..."
- Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar in an interview to BBC in 1955 said:
"I don't know how Mr Attlee suddenly agreed to give India Independence...
The national army that was raised by Subhas Chandra Bose...
The british had been ruling the country in the firm belief that whatever may happen
in the country or whatever the politicians do, they will never be able to change the loyalty of soldiers. That was one prop on which they were carrying on the administration. And that was completely dashed to pieces.
They found that soldiers could be seduced to form a party- a battalion to blow off the Britishers."
- Lt Gen S K Sinha made an observation in 1976:
"There was considerable sympathy for the INA within the army...It is true that fear of another 1857 had begun to haunt the british.
PV Chakraborty (Governor of Bengal in 1956), ASKED Clement Attlee (former British PM & who was responsible for India’s freedom)
"The Quit India Movement of Gandhi practically died out long before 1947 & there was nothing in the Indian situation at that time, which made it
necessary for the British to leave India in a hurry. Why then did they do so?”
In reply, Attlee cited several reasons, the most important of which were I.N.A. activities of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, which weakened the very foundation of the British Empire in India and
the RIN Mutiny which made the British realise that the Indian armed forces could no longer be trusted to prop up the British.
He also asked about the extent of Gandhi’s influence upon the british to leave India?
Mr. Attlee’s lips winded in smile and uttered slowly, “Minimal”.
Some Rare pics of Bose
Pic 1: Netaji at the house of Sri badrudeen kapasi at Bangkok, Thailand.
Pic 2: Netaji (right) with japanese foreign minister Mr. Mamori Shigemitsu in Tokyo.
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