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Collosal impact of Netaji and his INA on Royal Naval Mutiny( Last war of independence). To erase real significance of revolutionary movement in achieving independence of India both British rulers and later Indian govt tried to misrepresent RIN mutiny as some act of miscreants triggered out of service related discomfort.

Not emphasising much on inseparable..1/n

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As Babur remarked about Rajputs at the Battle of khanua :
- Swordsmen though some Hindustanis may be,most of them are ignorant & unskilled in military movement and positioning,in soldiery counsel and procedure.... 1/n

https://twitter.com/im_suketu/status/1736016610497028374

Consider few points - on lack of strategic thinking.
1. India's steel was so famous that Damascus swords were manufactured in India only . However, India never stopped the export of this sword and it's steel. This Indian swords might have butchered it's own citizens in the raids.

While no one can deny Christian conversion angle completely, disease had more role in wiping out native American population, is also true for that matter.
When Governor Pizarro meet Inca emperor Atahuallpa at Cajamarca first thing they tried to do was to convert him into X..

https://twitter.com/im_suketu/status/1734956721758757041

And like Turks used to do everywhere ,his general Vincente de Valverde tried to incite his men- tiny number of 106 foot soldiers and 62 cavalry men against 80k+ strong native foot soldiers, in the name of insult caused to their faith by the Inca emperor.

@anujdhar is called anti bengali by a section of morons for calling spade a spade & showing Gandhi bhakti among Bengalis over Subhas Bose.
For them here is few observations from introductory lines of his book on Bose by a renowned Bengali intellectual Rudrangshu Mukherjee 1/n 🧵

1. "Nehru was the most important public figure of country and Bose was the most revered icon in Bengal's political pantheon ".

> So on one hand Nehru is a biggest national leader, Bose is at most a provincial icon according to the Bengali intellectual..2/n

Convergent Evolution 🧵
In his book 'History of inventions' Robert Friedel tells about independent inventors of versions of incandescent light bulb of which most popular inventor is Thomas Edison(before/after him)
1.Joseph Swan of Newcastle.
2. Alexander Lodygin in Russia.. 1/n

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..3. Paul Israel
4. Bernard Finn.

2.
Similarly for Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone, on the very same day Elisha Gray filed patent independently. Both didn't know of each other.

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Author of 'The Age of Electricity' Park Benjamin has written - 'not an electrical invention..2/n

I find one more thing quite perplexing .That is Menon denies any possibility of India being offered parmanent membership of security council .
It's beyond me how can he claim so, given several hard evidences in favour of the matter.

https://twitter.com/Belletristius/status/1719573590574784543

As for China, his stand is very clear.
According to Menon 'India's biggest strategic challenge today is managing it's relationship with China and dealing with the consequences of China's rise'.
The former has to be done with China;the latter must include other powers that share

#SardarPatel can be considered as best specimen of 'jackal and hyde' phenomenon among all the great figures of modern India.
When today focus will be mostly on former one let's not forget the latter.
Broadly speaking, post independent Patel is a hero ofcourse but not as much was

the pre independence one.
Post Independent Patel unified the nation,and that's great.
But the pre independent Patel was-
1. The person who helped crushing RIN Mutiny.
2.supported Nehru in no reinstatement of INA.
3.key figure in ousting Bose from democratic Congress presidenship.

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The British Indian Army ( Sepoys): Strategic Imperial Reserve like no other. Sepoys of British Indian Army helped EIC conquer India in late 18th century, maintained British rule until the end of the second world war and served as 'strategic imperial reserve ' for global defence of the British Empire.

This reserve was located at the intersection of the

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Perry Anderson compares intellectual capabilities of Gandhi, Nehru and Bose,3 most powerful leaders of colonial India.

This is in quite contrast to mainstream Indian intellectuals' views that unanimously declares Nehru as an intellectual giant almost always neglecting Bose.

Anderson opines-
" Nehru,on the other hand,had enjoyed a higher education Gandhi lacked, and an intellectual development not arrested by intense religious belief.
But these advantages yielded less than might be thought. He seems to have learnt very little at Cambridge, scraping a

As far as I know, this man was complete disaster for India. ( though what i know is from popular sources, have not gone through deep study of him like i have not read Jairam Ramesh's book).

Anyways,let me summarise.
1. If you like oratory skill without much substance then he is

https://twitter.com/im_suketu/status/1702623547355746636

ur man. He had made guinness world record or something for longest delivered speech in UN.
By the end of year UN decision made Kashmir a parament nuisance for Indian diplomats.
So i will agree with Jon Mathai when he said this man was "educated idiot" with inflated..

#QuitIndiaMovement ; Mahatma Gandhi or Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose , whose influence was closer to it's programmes , concepts, events and it's executions ( 🧵)



Quit India Movement is popularly known as Gandhi's last and most daring movement among all he launched.
Until very recently it was being credited with the last of big events that got India freedom.Obviously since real truth of INA & RIN have descended on public memory, this(1/n)

I would wish if just few "tough" things from "Netaji" could be followed by leaders of today's India, atleast ( in 2023) 🧵 https://t.co/trGT0hBVEA

https://twitter.com/SanatanTalks/status/1686557563935170560

1.first & foremost ,going beyond ideological affiliation and considerations in order to achieve national interests ,internal and international.

The way he did it ...To See India Free He, being a socialist in his ideology, still took help of fascism, and delivered the liberation.

Netaji, the most popular leader of modern India?: An assessment of his stature vis a vis Gandhi and Nehru. Who was the most popular leader of India in 20th century, a century that defines even india of today and witnessed some the greatest Indian leaders?

For so called 'eminent historians' of India it's d most obvious &settled fact of Indian history just like until very lately it was