Nowadays debate is going on over Netaji's whereabouts during his INA's fight with British regime. The official status of Bose's demise or the status which is kept in our public domain says that he was killed in air crash in somewhere Taiwan, is still not convincing to many people.
Demands are being raised to declassifying the report of Mukherji commission constituted over finding facts of Netaji's death. It is also being covertly said that making the report public will disrupt the relationship of India with some foreign countries and throw it in the basket of danger. Mr. Subramanium Swamy has openly said that under the instructions of Nehru, Stalin tortured Netaji and finally ordered his killing.
"Nehruji starts his famous book 'Discovery of India' from strongly criticizing ideologies Fascism and Nazism prevailing over Italy and Germany. He wrote this book in Ahemadnagar jail in between April-Sept 1944, when Second World War was in full operation. Nehru ji wrote that when he went to Switzerland in early 1930s to look after his ailing wife there; after spending some months time, she got died there and when he was returning in India with her ashes for the last rituals, he got condolence from Italy fascist leader Mussolini, who also invited Nehru to meet him on the way of return journey to India, but Nehru meekly denied to meet him. Nehru openly hates fascist Nazi ideology, even more than the British regime in India."
Since then many kind of allegations are being leveled against India's first Prime Minister Pt. Nehru, who never wanted the arrival of Netaji in the independent country. It is also being said Mr. Nehru did not adopt INA people even after the independence of India, the organization which was full of Indian people and Indian national freedom fighters. Under the instruction of British regime, Pt. Nehru kept continuing the court martial of INA soldiers even in post 1947 period.
The writer has recently read the full volume of famous book written by Pt. Nehru, 'Discovery of India'. This book also gives many clues over Subhash Chandra Bose and his INA, his leniency towards Nazi and Fascist regime and also the reason of partition of India on communal line, the problem which was very much likely to be averted under the leadership of Subhash; the man who had innumerable Muslim commanders in his Indian national army and had allured all across section of society for the freedom of India from the clutches of British.
Nehruji starts his famous book 'Discovery of India' from strongly criticizing ideologies Fascism and Nazism prevailing over Italy and Germany. He wrote this book in Ahemadnagar jail in between April-Sept 1944, when Second World War was in full operation. Nehru ji wrote that when he went to Switzerland in early 1930s to look after his ailing wife there; after spending some months time, she got died there and when he was returning in India with her ashes for the last rituals, he got condolence from Italy fascist leader Mussolini, who also invited Nehru to meet him on the way of return journey to India, but Nehru meekly denied to meet him. Nehru openly hates fascist Nazi ideology, even more than the British regime in India.
"Nehru vehemently writes this that Congress has been always against of fascism and Nazi ideologies, but he says when Subhash Chandra Bose became the president of Congress in 1939; he never allowed any demonstration and activities against Nazi and Fascism on behalf of Congress party. It means Subhash Chandra Bose had soft corner for Nazi fascism combine, whereas Pt. Nehru and his likeminded persons in congress party wanted to bargain British regime to get independence."
The question is as an individual Nehru ji had all right to make opinion about anyone, but he hated these ideologies not purely on humanist bases, rather on political basis in spite of knowing this fact that those Nazi and Fascist are enemy to British and He boldly writes about his disliking to them. Now the question is, this event took place around 1935 and when Pt. Nehru writes his book in 1944, why he mentioned this matter, even in the initial chapter of his book, the reason is that, he wanted to convey message to the then British regime that you are fighting second world war against Nazi -Fascist combine of Germany and Italy and by doing this Nehru and his Congress followers expected that British regime will give freedom to India.
Nehru vehemently writes this that Congress has been always against of fascism and Nazi ideologies, but he says when Subhash Chandra Bose became the president of Congress in 1939; he never allowed any demonstration and activities against Nazi and Fascism on behalf of Congress party. It means Subhash Chandra Bose had soft corner for Nazi fascism combine, whereas Pt. Nehru and his likeminded persons in congress party wanted to bargain British regime to get independence. On the contrast, Bose wanted to win freedom by defeating Britishers with the help of their enemies like Germany, Italy and Japan who were fighting in world war II against British and allies nation.
As everybody knows this fact this war was fought between Ally nation comprised of Britain, France and Poland which subsequently partnered with USA, USSR and British India and on the other side it were Germany-Japan-Italy Nazi- fascist combine. Nehru ji has written in his book in a much elaborated manner that congress has got a high time to free India while second world war by making agreement with the British viceroy that they get our support in the war and in lieu of that they should give full independence to us.
Gandhiji who had another idea over second world war, he was not thinking second world war in any strategic or in any political or in any tactical or even in any bargaining manner. He was thinking purely on human terms, he never liked violence, so he opposed world war. He always pleaded that why should we support any war. Nehru expressed severe dissatisfaction over this attitude of Gandhiji's which he clearly mentions in his book. Pt. Nehru even somewhere made mockery of 'truth and non violence' principle of Gandhiji over his tactics. He pleaded in the book that for the national interest, Congress should make a full agreement for the full independence at the cost of their support to the British group in the Second World War, as his book narrates it in comprehensive manner.
Pt. Nehru even in his concluding part of the book, the post script of book comments about the success of INA under the leadership of Subhash Chandra Bose, who had launched militant struggle against the British regime across the eastern part of India. Nehruji writes, ''this INA has got success in capturing Manipur and it is getting support across all section of society whether Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian, which were get united behind INA.
"About Nehru : Nehru's vision, observation and his canvas of thinking was huge and in way he was a very astounding intellectual by his talent and instinct, however being born in a very rich family, he got enough exposure also by getting opportunity of studying at abroad and travelling several parts of the world. Perhaps Nehruji was unparallel expert of world affairs in India in his cotemporary time. He had a full update of all major powers and countries of the world. His vision of world history was immense, that is why his book 'glimpses of world history' written in 1930s became very popular, followed by his mammoth book 'Discovery of India', which had everything, the known chronology of history of India from 3500 years BC to up till now, Description of major events and making of the great kingdoms in the world history. He was very much aware the cotemporary polity, warfare, economy, sociology, philosophy, art, language, literature and life style as well as the saga of ongoing India's freedom struggle during his time and prior to his time. While reading 'Discovery of India', one can easily visualize that Nehru had enough soft corner for China, the country which he regarded a civilization friend of India. He made enough trust over China, his immense effort of making friendship with China and even famous slogan Hindi Chini bhai bhai, went into futility and we had a consequence of Chinese attack over India in 1962 which shocked Nehru so intensively that he had heart attack and he got died in 1964."
Nehru laments that the struggle for freedom in India has had many obstacles from communal and separatist forces and it was becoming very difficult to unite all community as well fighting for the freedom of united and undivided India. However, when Nehru observed that INA in its war against British Imperialism has at least united all communities, he did not look over it as a citizen of India; rather he took it as a political rival to the INA. He writes that if INA can become successful in uniting all communities, why not we congress can do this. It shows his envy with the INA and its leader S C Bose. Sometimes it seems, to Nehru, Subhash bose a bigger danger than Jinnah, otherwise he would have major attack over the activities of divisive and communal Muslim league instead of making attack of Nazi and Fascist combine, who had nothing to do with the Indian scene.
He writes in the post script of his book Discovery of India in this way, 'The story of Indian national army, founded in Burma and Malaya during war years, spread suddenly throughout the country and evoked an astonishing enthusiasm. The trial by court martial of some of its officers aroused the country as nothing else had done, and they became the symbols of India fighting for her freedom. They became also the symbol of unity among the various religious groups in India for Hindu and Moslem and Sikh and Christian were all represented in that army. They had solved the communal problem amongst themselves, and so why should we not do so? This verse is written in the postscript of the book when he was released in June, 1945 after spending around 1000 days in the Jail, which was his longest jail term out of his total 9 prison terms during freedom struggle.
"The Allies of World War II : The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that opposed the Axis powers together during the Second World War (1939-1945). The Allies promoted the alliance as seeking to stop German, Japanese and Italian aggression. The anti-German coalition at the start of the war (1 September 1939) consisted of France, Poland and Great Britain, soon to be joined by the British Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.)After first having cooperated with Germany in partitioning Poland whilst remaining neutral in the Allied-Axis conflict, the Soviet Union joined the Allies in June 1941 after being invaded by Germany and its allies in Operation Barbarossa. The United States joined in December 1941 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As of 1942, the "Big Three" leaders of Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States controlled Allied policy; relations between Britain and the U.S. were especially close, the latter replacing France as Britain's prime partner after the Entente Cordiale dissolved in the aftermath of the Fall of France, despite last ditch efforts to save it by turning it into a fully fledged Franco-British Union. China was already at war with Japan since 1937 but officially joined the Allies in 1941. The Big Three and China were referred as a "trusteeship of the powerful", then were recognized as the Allied "Big Four" in Declaration by United Nations and later the "Four Policemen" of "United Nations" for the Allies. Other key Allies included British India, the Netherlands, Norway and Yugoslavia as well as Free France; there were numerous others. Together they called themselves the "United Nations" (and in 1945 created the modern UN)."
The way Nehru goes against Nazi and Fascism in his initial part of book and the way he concluded this book by making commentary over the activities of INA, he tried to please the British imperialist by becoming a opposing party to their enemy at second world war. It is open facts the Netaji led INA wanted to make India free by making strategic alliance with the anti forces to the allied nation during second world war and in order to this Bose met both Musolni and Hitler and also made a pact with Japan, but Nehru and his clout in congress party played a game in order to get independence from Britishers by pleasing them. So the present controversy of Subhash Chandra Bose Vs. Nehru finds some base in his written book 'discovery of India' too.
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