WHEN A NATION STOOD UP IN ARMS AGAINST THE RAJ
You are absolutely right, my friend. The INA offensive on Indian soil, albeit eventually in defeat, and the subsequent INA Trials at the Red Fort in 1946 led to nationwide protests against the British Raj culminating in the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny at Bombay, the Army Mutiny at Jubbulpore and the Air Force Mutiny, all three occurring in close succession in the same tumultuous year of 1946, which put paid to all further British aspiration towards imperial dominance in India. Thus was freedom achieved for which the INA assault in the final phase of the freedom movement was of momentous significance. It catalysed the whole nation into rebellion and brought about the quick exit of the British from their treasured colony.
The British are a clear-headed people and understood that in the developing doubtful scenario of the Indian armed forces serving them loyally any further, the backbone of the Raj was broken and that it was best to pack bag and baggage and set sail for home lest another Revolt of 1857 forced the issue in a bloodier way. The compliant Congress that had played no mean role in the eventual outcome of independence, then could not stand firm to aver what ought to have been the inviolable principle of the maintenance of the territorial integrity of the motherland, and in submission to Jinnah's perfidious demand for a partitioned India, settled for the dismemberment of the motherland to the eternal horror of those who had laid down their everything for the sake of a unified united India.
It was not merely the Congress' effort or the INA assault or the international situation consequent on the Second World War that liberated India but it was the cumulative resolution of historical forces that did it. India became free on 15 August, 1947, a dominion of the British Empire from which she steered clear partially on assumption of Republic status on 26 January, 1950 when the Constitution of India formally came into effect.
Our prostrations at the feet of the martyrs who had laid down their lives for the achievement of freedom and our salutations to the countless millions led by Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Lokmanya Tilak and other seminal leaders who had sunk in their ploughshare to achieve this freedom. May the God of India's destiny, Bharatabhagyavidhata, preserve our freedom and may we, imbued with a sense of pride in our heritage and gratitude towards the freedom fighters, work diligently ever to recover our lost glory as a nation! Vande Mataram! Jai Hind!
Written by Sugata Bose
You are absolutely right, my friend. The INA offensive on Indian soil, albeit eventually in defeat, and the subsequent INA Trials at the Red Fort in 1946 led to nationwide protests against the British Raj culminating in the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny at Bombay, the Army Mutiny at Jubbulpore and the Air Force Mutiny, all three occurring in close succession in the same tumultuous year of 1946, which put paid to all further British aspiration towards imperial dominance in India. Thus was freedom achieved for which the INA assault in the final phase of the freedom movement was of momentous significance. It catalysed the whole nation into rebellion and brought about the quick exit of the British from their treasured colony.
The British are a clear-headed people and understood that in the developing doubtful scenario of the Indian armed forces serving them loyally any further, the backbone of the Raj was broken and that it was best to pack bag and baggage and set sail for home lest another Revolt of 1857 forced the issue in a bloodier way. The compliant Congress that had played no mean role in the eventual outcome of independence, then could not stand firm to aver what ought to have been the inviolable principle of the maintenance of the territorial integrity of the motherland, and in submission to Jinnah's perfidious demand for a partitioned India, settled for the dismemberment of the motherland to the eternal horror of those who had laid down their everything for the sake of a unified united India.
It was not merely the Congress' effort or the INA assault or the international situation consequent on the Second World War that liberated India but it was the cumulative resolution of historical forces that did it. India became free on 15 August, 1947, a dominion of the British Empire from which she steered clear partially on assumption of Republic status on 26 January, 1950 when the Constitution of India formally came into effect.
Our prostrations at the feet of the martyrs who had laid down their lives for the achievement of freedom and our salutations to the countless millions led by Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Lokmanya Tilak and other seminal leaders who had sunk in their ploughshare to achieve this freedom. May the God of India's destiny, Bharatabhagyavidhata, preserve our freedom and may we, imbued with a sense of pride in our heritage and gratitude towards the freedom fighters, work diligently ever to recover our lost glory as a nation! Vande Mataram! Jai Hind!
Written by Sugata Bose
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