“It all started on 7 December 1941, when Japan unleashed its surprise attack on a place called Pearl Harbor. To think that something that was happening a thousand miles away would affect the lives of so many people, including me, was unimaginable then. But it did touch my life. In fact it dictated my whole future.” Ramesh Benegal, recipient of the Maha Vir Chakra, was born in Burma and was seventeen when the Japanese captured British-occupied Burma. He tells this extraordinary, first-person story of his career with the Indian National Army in Burma and Japan in the years from 1941 to 1945. A series of chances lead the young Ramesh to enrol for the selection of cadets to be sent to Japan for military training at the initiative of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. We follow his journeys on land, sea and air as the young voice narrates in sharp and often visceral detail the experience of travelling from Burma to Thailand, Singapore and Japan. The years are long and hard and alternate between deprivation and plenty and between disaster and hope—before the turning point of the War changes everything. What opens before us is not only a war memoir but the transformation of a boy as he steeps himself in the cultures of food, behaviour, customs and the ethnic aspirations of the countries he finds himself in.

The first complete history of the Indian National Army and its fight for independence against the British in World War II.

This study traces the origins of the Indian National Army in the imagination of Iwaichi Fujiwara, a young Japanese intelligence officer, and the relationship between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Indian National Army as it evolved under the leadership of Bengali revolutionary, Subhas Chandra Bose. The study is unique in its use of Japanese archival sources for analysis of the relationship between Japanese policy formulation and the Indian independence movement in its military phase.

"The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II." ― Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review In The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy A. Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan's "total empire" met the total war of World War II. He illuminates the ways in which the imperial center and its individual colonies understood the concept of the Sphere, offering two sometimes competing, sometimes complementary, and always intertwined visions—one from Japan, the other from Burma and the Philippines. Yellen argues that, from 1940 to 1945, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere epitomized two concurrent wars for Asia's future: the first was for a new type of empire in Asia, and the second was a political war, waged by nationalist elites in the colonial capitals of Rangoon and Manila. Exploring Japanese visions for international order in the face of an ever-changing geopolitical situation, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere explores wartime Japan's desire to shape and control its imperial future while its colonies attempted to do the same. At Japan's zenith as an imperial power, the Sphere represented a plan for regional domination; by the end of the war, it had been recast as the epitome of cooperative internationalism. In the end, the Sphere could not survive wartime defeat, and Yellen's lucidly written account reveals much about the desires of Japan as an imperial and colonial power, as well as the ways in which the subdued colonies in Burma and the Philippines jockeyed for agency and a say in the future of the region.

Unique Resource Representing Unknown Facts of Netaji (1943-1945). It reveals Netaji's action and movement in Tokyo and Southeast Asia in the above period. High quality 50 rare photos have evidenced his speeches and parties. FIRST VISIT OF NETAJI TO TOKYO on 11 May 1943. Speech of Netaji in front of the PM TOJO. Surrender of the British army at Singapore in 1942. Welcome of Netaji at Singapore by garlanding white flowers. Military parade at Singapore. Planning of war with Tojo. Monologue of Netaji at Padang Park on 9 July 1943. Let your battle cry be To Delhi... To Delhi. Formation of Provisional Azad Hind Government. Netaji's proclamation. SECOND VISIT OF NETAJI TO TOKYO on 31 October 1943 to participate the Greater East Asia Conference. Stayed in the Imperial Hotel as a Japanese Government Guest. Delivered a speech in the Hotel. Participated in the banquet given by the Minister Shigemitsu. Drinking with Vargas, ambassador of the Philippines., and with Dr. Ba Maw, PM of Burma. Visiting the Japanese Imperial Academy. Meeting with the Governor, Bank of Japan. Participation with the INA cadets at the Koa Do Gakuin. Interview with the INA cadets. Military show observed by Netaji and 3 INA captains. Delivering a speech in front of Indians living in Tokyo. Visit to Andaman and Nicober Islands. Azad Hind Bank creation and some Notes. Netaji with 3 INA Members at the Singapore airport on 31 October 1944. THIRD and FINAL VISIT OF NETAJI to TOKYO. Participated in the speech of new PM Koiso in honour of Netaji's arrival. Drinking at the party. Netaji with other Ministers at the 1st anniversary of the GEAC. Speech in a small gathering. Shigemitsu inaugurated the GEA Conf. at the Hibiya Hall. Lecture at the Tokyo Imperial University (sophisticated persons). Foreign Press interview. Attended the speech of Ohkuma, IJA oresident. A comment of Netaji to Modi and on the Birth anniversary of Netaji in 2017. Speech at Rangoon on 4 February 1945 ( Give me blood and I promise you to give freedom). Inauguration of war memorial. News of Netaji's and Shidei's deaths. Kakitsubo's lecture at the Netaji Research Bureau in 1977. Research about defamation of Netaji's SOUL as the killer Gumnami baba by many Indians without having a single proof of evidence. Lord Mountbatten's visit to war memorial. Nehru Dynasty before 1942. Riots in India 1946-1947. Massacre of 2.4 million people. Gandhi selected Nehru as first PM instead of denying the democratically elected Patel. Nehru Dynasty since independence. Report of Ambedkar. Comment of Natwar Singh. Loot of Azad Hind Bank and Mother India. Unique and wise judgement of 'Tokyo Trials' by RadhaBinod Pal for the WW II. Some suggestions to the Indian Government for the development of Mother India. Message of Netaji to the Indians for developing our Mother India. Declassified files relating to the Ashes of Netaji at the Renkoji Temple. Declassified files relating to Kakitsubo, Kiani and Khan's visa denial by the PM Indira Gandhi in 1976. Photo of the nice statue of Netaji at the Renkoji temple.

This is a ground-breaking history of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, part of the Indian National Army led by Bengali revolutionary Subhas Chandra Bose during World War II. The Regiment, a hitherto forgotten part of "the Forgotten Army," was composed largely of teenage volunteers from Malayan rubber estates, girls who had never seen India yet were eager to enlist to liberate India from colonial bondage. Bose, creator of the Regiment, connected a historical thread extending from the original Rani of Jhansi, killed in battle by the British in 1858, through Bengali women revolutionaries of the 1930s, to the Regiment, which he hoped would spearhead the liberation of India. The Rani of Jhansi Regiment provides a model of empowerment relevant for contemporary Indian women.

Subhas Chandra Bose, 1897-1945, Indian statesman.

The Japanese Occupation Of South East Asia During The World War Ii Has Been Closely Studied By Many Scholars. But There Has Been No Critical Study Of The Japanese Occupation Of The Andaman And Nicobar Islands. This Study Is Based On Archival Sources Available In India And Abroad And Critically Examines The Nature Of The Japanese Rule In The Andamans, Its Relations With The Members Of The Provisional Government Of Azad Hind, Who Participated In The Civil Administration, The Torturing Of The So-Called Spies, The Devastatation Caused To Life And Property Of The People By The Allied Air Raids On The Islands. The Author Presents Objectively The Circumstances Leading To The Atocities Committed By The Japanese And The Indian Police Officials On The Innocent People. This Study Will Be An Essential And Compulsive Reading For Students Of The Second World War Both In India And Japan.

Among the more improbable events of the Asia-Pacific Theater in World War II was the creation in Singapore of a corps of female Indian combat soldiers, the Rani of Jhansi Regiment (RJR). They served under Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose in the Indian National Army. Because the creation of an Indian all-female regiment of combat soldiers was a radical military innovation in 1943, and because the role of women in today’s broader context of Indian culture has become a prevalent and pressing issue, the extensive testimony of the surviving veterans of this unit is timely and urgent. The history of these brave women soldiers is little known, their extraordinary service and the role played by Bose remains largely unexplored. In the years since the RJR surrender in 1945, the story of Subhas Chandra Bose and the Rani Regiment of female combatants as signature symbols of both the national fight for independence and of Indian women’s struggle for gender equality has taken on aspects of myth. Lengthy interviews with the veteran Ranis together with archival research comprise the evidence that separates the myth of the Bengali hero and his jungle warrior maidens from historical fact, and this resulting book presents an accurate narrative of the Ranis. The facts are nearly as impressive as the legend.