The Forgotten Army Is Story Of Azad Hind Fauj Via The Eyes Of The Trooper
The Forgotten Army Is Story Of Azad Hind Fauj Via The Eyes Of The Troopers The first INA trial, which was held in public, grew to become a rallying point for the independence motion from the autumn of 1945. The launch of INA prisoners and the suspension of the trials came to be the dominant political marketing campaign, superseding the marketing campaign for independence. Christopher Bayly notes that the "INA was to become a means more powerful enemy of the British empire in defeat than it had been during its ill-fated triumphal march on Delhi." The Viceroy's journal describes the autumn and winter of 1945–1946 as "The Edge of a Volcano". The setting of the trial at Red Fort was taken by Indian public as a deliberate taunt by the British Raj over the vanquished INA, recalling the INA's battle cries of unfurling the Indian tricolour over the Red Fort. Many compared the trials to that of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor tried in the identical pl