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About The Book

Today, many Indians are unaware that World War II was once fought in India’s North-eastern region. The twin battles of Imphal and Kohima were so fierce that in 2013, a poll conducted in London recognized these as ‘Britain’s Greatest Battle.’ But in the history of India’s independence movement, they have largely been eclipsed. While global historical accounts have framed them as a Japanese invasion of India, the truth is they were parts of India’s armed Liberation War against British colonial rule spearheaded by the Indian National Army under Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, with the audacious ambition of uprooting the British Raj from the soil of India.

British Prime Minister Churchill knew it well. However, fearing a cascading effect resulting in a nationwide uprising in support of Bose’s Liberation Army, Churchill orchestrated a smear campaign to misrepresent this attack as a mere Japanese invasion rather than acknowledging its true nationalist origins.

Against this backdrop, the story eruditely recounts the gamut of India’s major revolutionary movements culminating in the full-fledged Liberation War, which was played down and belittled by the conspiracies of the Allied forces of World War II to conceal it from becoming known to the world. The book highlights how British propagandists actively embarked on a vicious slander campaign against Subhas Bose to undermine India’s quest for freedom, deliberately seeking to camouflage the daring legacy of Subhas Bose and all others. Yet, in the final analysis, the story narrates how Netaji’s Liberation War subsequently forced the British to free India.

About The Author

Author Subir, born in 1950 in Meghalaya’s picturesque capital, Shillong, is a science graduate with an honour in Physics. The septuagenarian had a distinguished 35-year career in banking before making his debut in the literary field at 70+. He is also a storyteller, and his tales are based on historical facts supported by reliable references and authentic sources.

His uncanny knack for looking at the weird happenings and delving into them to uncover the truths led him to write this book. Subir’s extensive travels across the seven northeastern states during his banking career to fulfil official commitments offered him a lot of scope to interact with the region’s diverse tribes and communities, numbering over 200. Thus, he gained a deep insight into the region’s various distinctiveness and unconventionality, enabling him to get a clearer perception of the places and their people across the seven states, also known as the seven sisters. These experiences, combined with his fascination for finding truths, inspired him to explore the current fabrications of the popular narratives concerning how the Bengalis overwhelmed the natives of North-East India. His painstaking research on it and the passion for storytelling culminated in the emergence of this book.