Author: Indrani Dutta
Publisher: Modern Book Depot
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 99
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187502053
Description
This concise book explodes the myth and analyses the reality of what is the truth.
No historian has so far been able to produce any documentary or authentic evidence to the effect that Japanese invaded India for the purpose of an invasion, as is understood in present day modern history.
That the Japanese had no political ambition to invade India during World War II is clear from the fact that India remained outside their scheme of the 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. But, for the fulfillment of the vision of an Asia for Asians, Japan realized that it would be necessary to establish friendly relations with India, and for this it was in the Japanese interest to see the British dislodged from India.
As part of the implementation of the INA-Japanese agreement, the occupied Indian islands of Andaman and Nicobar were handed over to Netaji Subhas Bose's Provisional Government of Free India and these were renamed as Swaraj and Shaheed.
Similarly in the Imphal and Kohima sectors, where the INA-Japanese forces jointly fought the British-American Allied forces, the liberated area was taken charge of by the Provisional Government and Lt. Col A C Chatterjee was appointed as the Governor-General of the territory.
From Manipur, rebel leaders N Koireng Singh and H Nilamani Singh and from the Naga Hills, Z A Phizo joined the Azad Hind Forces and hoisted the tri-color both in Mairang and Kohima. This is as far as the Japanese got to on Indian soil.