India lost the Sino-India War of 1962 due to lack of military preparedness. This was the Gandhian legacy of non-violent statecraft inherited and perpetuated by Nehru, the indecisive Prime Minister of India then. Had the nation welcomed Netaji to the Mahatma instead at the right time (1939), its fate in the Sino-India War would have been different.
The development of a modern strong army capable of defending India's sovereignty and freedom was Netaji's prime consideration post-independence and to that end he had exhorted the Indian National Army and inspired them in their fight for freedom. Had Gandhi understood the dynamics of realpolitik and cooperated with Bose from the Haripura days, Nehru could not have led us to the terrible debacle of 1962. India, with Bose's vision guiding the Independence movement, would have driven the British off and attained to an undivided freedom much earlier than 1947. Thereafter, she would have emerged as the Asian superpower ahead of China and the Sino-Indian conflict of 1962 would have never been. The Kashmir problem would not have been, too, for Pakistan would never have been, thus, born.
Today's hub of global terrorism has been created out of that dastardly deed of the British, the Partition of India. The world pays for it dearly. Gandhi's debilitating unrealistic politics aided by Jinnah's cunning use of Muslim fundamentalist psychology and the overall divisive strategy engendered, fostered and overseen by British geopolitical self-interest gave birth to perfidious Pakistan.
Had Netaji not been forced by the 'Mahatma' to leave Indian shores to seek foreign help for freedom, the history of the world would have been radically different. I request all to read the text of the Presidential address at the Haripura Congress of 1938 and come to their own conclusions.
Jai Hind !
Written by Sugata Bose
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