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By the late 1930s, Subhas Chandra Bose had become disillusioned with Gandhi`s leadership of the Indian National Congress and the nationalist struggle. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, he resolved that India could only achieve freedom through a violent uprising. Two years later, in 1941, Bose went on to make a daring escape, via Afghanistan and Russia, to Berlin in search of an anti-British alliance. The Nazis seized Bose`s offer and the possibilities of an anti-British revolt in India, even envisaging German troops marching into the country as ˜liberators`. Meanwhile, thousands of British Indian troops captured in North Africa enlisted in the Wehrmacht hoping to join the Nazi march into India as they swore oaths to Hitler and Bose ˜in the fight for the freedom of India`. Yet for all their accord, the Bose-Nazi relationship remained complicated, full of ambivalences on both sides. This book for the first time, tells the story of Bose`s war years in Germany and examines his relationship with the Nazis. This period remains a deeply controversial moment in Indian history and has thus far been suffused with hagiography. Using rare German and Indian war records, Romain Hayes has written a nuanced, thoughtful, and vital account of these years, shedding light on an aspect of Bose that has till now remained in shadow.
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Romain Hayes
"Romain Hayes is a historian who has specialized, for a decade, in German foreign policy during the Second World War. He "
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ISBN : 9788184001846
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