But the author also offers a corrective to later Indian accounts that have exaggerated the strength of pro-independence feeling and glorified the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army, made up of Indian POWs and defectors. No more than 9,000 of these soldiers actually fought against the Raj in Japan¡¯s ill-fated invasion of India in 1944, Mr Raghavan notes. More remarkable in retrospect was the loyalty shown by many Indian soldiers: a British censor¡¯s log from Tunisia records a soldier¡¯s letter to his family declaring proudly, ¡°Our beloved king (God save him) has conquered this country.¡±
Both books argue persuasively that the war not only consolidated India¡¯s sense of self, but generated many of the institutions and attitudes that framed independent India. Mr Raghavan quotes a British staff officer of the 19th Indian division describing its drive to capture the Burmese capital, Rangoon: ¡°Twenty races, a dozen religions, a score of languages passed in those trucks and tanks. When my great-great-grandfather first went to India there had been as many nations: now there was one—India.¡± Sadly, this would not be so true by 1947, and the Raj cracked into two parts.〈The Economist May 5th 2016〉
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Thanks for your kindness with such a nice article.
As you say, life comes first in humans.
So we are faithful to the conditions of life.
Because if we get out of this condition, we can't keep our lives.
What I think is unfortunate is that Koreans don't even understand
this most essential and basic common sense.
Thanks. Have a nice day.