Bose Or Gandhi Who Got India Her Freedom 1st Edition Maj Gen Gd Bakshi by Maj. Gen. Gd Bakshi 9789387324671, 9387324672 instant download after payment.

This book seeks to answer a seminal question about Nation state
formation in Post colonial India, “Who got us our Freedom and how?” Was
it due to the violence of Bose and His INA- or was it due to the
peaceful and non-violent agitation of Mahatma Gandhi? Where we are going
depends a lot on where we came from. The author has painstakingly
analysed the documents now available in the British Transfer of Power
Archives. He has methodically identified the key British decision makers
in London and New Delhi in the critical period from 1945-1947, and
examined their letters and reports about the INA trials and their
violent aftermath (November-December 1945) and then the mutiny in the
Royal Indian Navy (February 1946). Relevant letters from the Viceroy and
military appreciation of the situation by Fd Mshl Auchinleck, alongwith
reports from the Governors of the various provinces, as also the report
of the Director IB, have been reproduced in the original alongwith
Letters from the Prime minister Lord Clement Attlee and Secretary of
state for India, Pethik Lawerence. The documentary paper trail is
chillingly clear. The British were shaken by the wide spread violence in
support of the INA and the serious question mark it raised about the
continued loyalty of some 2.5 million Indian soldiers then being
de-mobilized after the war. There were less than 40,000 British troops
in India then. They were war-weary and home-sick. How could they have
quelled a revolt by 2.5 million combat hardened Indian Soldiers? It was
this stark maths that forced the British to leave when they did. Nelson
Mandela in South Africa, continued with the non-violent methods of the
Mahatma. Unfortunately South Africa got its freedom only in April 1994.
The unfortunate fact is that the British left but handed over power to
an anglophile elite that faithfully carried on with the narratives and
constructs of the Raj.