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Abadan, 99, 265
Abyssinia, 105
Aga Khan, 36, 251
Agordat, 110
Ahmed Khel, 240
Ahmedabad, 75, 258
Akyab, 51
Alam el Halfa, 152
Alexander the Great, 31
Algeria, 239
Ali, Ghulam, 39
Ali, Raham, 199, 202, 204
Alipore station, 162
Allen Grounds, 26
Amba Alagi, 111, 152
Ambala, 33, 35
Ambedkar, Bhimrao, 257
ammonal, 92, 108, 114, 197, 218
Amul milk cooperative, 229
Anand village, 229
Andaman Islands, 7, 61, 168
Andimeshk, 265
Appadurai, Arjun, 273
Arab Legion, 99
Arakan peninsula, 143, 162, 170–1, 173–4, 176, 181, 186–7
Arakkonam, 75, 140
Arjuna, in Hindu mythology, 24
Arnim, General Hans-Jürgen von, 148
Arzi-Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, 168–9, 269, 273
Asad Khel, 38, 229
Asmara, 106, 110
Assam, 52, 63, 142, 146, 182, 185–6
Assam Regiment, 188, 199
Assyrian Levies, 134
Atbara, river, 106, 134–5
Auchinleck, General Sir Claude, 85, 111, 116, 128, 157–8, 228, 235–6
‘forgotten warrior’, 242
Indian Army affection for, 121, 148
Awadhi Brahmins, 259
Baghdad, 99, 101, 127–8
Bailey bridges, 207, 212
Baluchis, 113
Bangalore, 77, 128
Bannu, 33
Barentu, 152
Basra, 99–100, 127, 130, 262
Basu, Lieutenant, 178
Batavia, 228, 240
Battle of Britain, 140
Battle of the Somme, 205
Bay of Bengal, 46, 165, 170
Beatrix of the Netherlands, Princess, 228
Behistun, 129
Belgaum, 77
Bengal, 52, 60, 63, 69, 76, 84, 143, 156, 186
famine, 161–7, 209–10, 238
Bengal Sappers
First World War battle honours, 130
mechanisation of, 263
Bengal Sappers, 2nd Field Company
advances from Kohima, 207–8
battle honours, 151–2
Bobby’s death recorded in field diary, 221
leaves Calcutta, 164–6
crossing of Manipur river, 214–16
in North Africa, 110–25
receives new OC, 214
reorganisation, 228
returns from North Africa, 147–9
returns to Assam, 182–7
in Sudan, 105–10
see also Kohima, battle of
Benghazi, 111
Beypore, river, 12
Bhagalpur, 76
Bhopal, 140, 145
Bihar, 76, 84, 89, 99, 158, 167
Birla, G. D., 234
Bishenpur, 211
Blundell, Colonel John, 124
Boag, Sir George, 59
Board of Revenue, 63
Bombay, 5, 34, 97, 105, 147, 150, 159, 239
Congress resolution and disturbances, 74–6
story about subalterns, 85
Bombay Presidency, industries of, 149
booby-traps, 132, 178
Bose, Subhas Chandra, 77, 84, 167–9, 181, 186, 211, 241, 268
Boya, 30, 37
Brigs Peak, 107, 110
British East Indies Naval Squadron, 61
British Empire, end of, 141, 233–8
British Somaliland, 105
Brooke, Lord Alan, 157
Buckingham Mills, 55
Burg el Arab, 121–2
Burma, 44–6, 50–1, 57, 69, 127, 139–46
and Bengal famine, 164
Chinese advance in north, 174
Japanese retreat from, 208
reconquest of, 235, 2
38
retreat from, 51–2, 75, 166, 173, 186
see also Kohima, battle of
Burma Shell, 63
‘Butcher and Bolt’ strategy, 41
Buthidaung, 174
Butler, Roy ‘The Reverend’, 163
Cairo, 119, 121, 129, 148
Calcutta, 149–50
and Bengal famine, 161–4
Bose escapes house arrest, 77
Calcutta Tropical Medicine School, 67
Calicut
Bobby nearly drowned off pier, 192
commerce, 4–5
Maplah rebellion, 7
receives news of war, 3–4
saw mills, 149
street protests, 78
Cambridge University, 102, 229
Cannanore Cantonment, 18
Cariappa, K. M., 70
Carnatic Mills, 55
carrier pigeons, 97
Central Indian Horse, 259
Ceylon, 60–1
Chamberlain, Neville, 23, 57
Chhota Nagpur plateau, 158, 161
Chin Hills, 185, 211
China, 44, 57, 69, 141, 144, 150, 173, 230
Chindits, 143–4, 174, 215
Chindwin, river, 69, 140, 143–5, 186, 208, 249
Chitoor, 63
Chittagong, 8, 165, 171, 174, 181
Chocolate Staircase, 211, 215
cholera, 52–3, 88
Churchill, Winston, 27, 54, 61, 140, 143, 148, 158, 210, 262
and Bengal famine, 165
and ‘air control’, 253
and end of empire, 235, 238
and Indian independence, 57–8
and Malakand Field Force, 251
and sulphonamide antibiotics, 257–8
Civil Disobedience Movement, 8
Cocanada, 61
Coimbatore, 76
Colombo, 61
Comilla, 189
Cooch Behar, 214
Cooper, Gary, 82
Cooum, river, 17
Cosmopolitan Club, 8, 154
Cox’s Bazaar, 174
Cranwell, RAF College, 36
Cripps, Sir Stafford, 57–8, 74, 255
Ctesiphon, Arch of, 129–30
Coonoor, 188
Curtis’s Commandos, 184–6
Cyprus, 111
Dadabhoy, Edul, 18, 177, 230
Dadabhoy, Manek, 17–19, 22, 29–35, 39–42, 46–7, 64, 75–6, 240
killed in air crash, 152–5, 185, 206, 217, 225, 230
service over Burma, 127, 139–46, 152
Dahar el Aslagh, 113
Datta Khel, 30, 37, 240
Defence Services Exhibition Train, 89
Dehra Dun, 27
Delawari, 150
Delhi, 33, 56, 66, 71–2, 129, 149, 169, 181, 186
Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, 231
siege of, 259
US troops, 266–7
Delhi belly, 79
deserters, 191, 205
Diego Garcia, 234
Dimapur, 186–7, 189–91, 193, 202, 205–6, 209
Dizful, 265
Dohazari airfield, 182, 185
Dologorodoc, 107–8
Dongolaas Gorge, 106, 110
Dordi, J. E., 230
Drigh Road depot, Karachi, 36
Dumbrille, Douglas, 82
Dunkirk, 234
Durand Line, 71
Dutch East Indies, 45, 221, 227–8, 230, 239–40
Dyer, General Reginald, 255
Easten, Captain Donald, 197–8
Edward VII, King, 161
eggs, price of, 3–4
Egypt, 61, 103, 105–6, 116, 124, 149, 264
El Adem, 115–16
El Alamein,
First Battle of, 116, 264
Second Battle of, 101, 122–3, 127, 167
electricity, 79
elephants, 49, 53, 92, 143–4, 164, 171, 180–1, 186, 212, 213–214, 217–19, 269
Elliot’s Beach, 44
Engineer, Aspy, 36–7, 39–40, 229
Eritrea, 106, 110, 133, 156, 239
Escher Committee, 257
Euphrates, river, 12, 100, 133
Ezhava women, 5
Fairbanks, Douglas, 82
Fairey Albacores, 120
Fakir of Ipi, Mirza Ali Khan, 32, 37, 78
Falaja Pass, 149
Farohar, wings of, 33, 130, 140
fascines, 160, 268
Fauji Akhbar, 128
First World War, 7, 24, 27–8, 52, 88, 102, 199, 239
Flynn, Errol, 13
Forgotten Army, 216, 224, 242
Fort St George, 59, 70
Forward Bloc, 24
Forward Policy, 31
French Indo-China, 45, 239–40
gabions, 160, 268
Gama, Vasco da, 4
Ganapathy, Kodandera (‘Ganny’), 20–2, 52–4, 62, 64–74, 77–80
death from bronchitis, 93, 152–4, 206, 217, 225, 231
letter to sister, 65–8
marriage, 65–6, 73
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 18, 24, 39, 258, 267
and salt march, 8, 250
and Quit India movement, 74–5, 84, 86, 234
opposition to Bose and INA, 77, 167, 186
Ganga, river, 12, 103, 158
Garhwal, 25, 106–7
Gasson, Sir Lionel, 59
Gaylani, Rashid Ali, 262, 265
Gazala, Battle of, 111–14, 116, 119, 130, 135, 152
Gedaref aerodrome, 135
Gemmel, Andy, 163
George, Leela, 254
Ghaffar Khan, Abdul, 252
Giarabub, 133
Goa, 267
Gott, General William, 121
Goyal, S. N., 75–6
Grant, Cary, 82
grass widows, 103
Greece, 234
Guadalcanal, 142
Gudalur, 151
Guindy College, 19, 25–6, 43, 47–8, 250–2
Gunga Din, 82
Gurkhas, 5, 32, 73, 82, 113, 133, 142, 145–6, 191, 264
Habbaniya, 133, 262, 265
Hathipauk Chaung, 174–5
Hawker Audaxes, 30–1, 38–9, 41, 140, 252
Hawker Hurricanes, 89, 139–41, 144, 146, 202, 212, 217
Heath, General Lewis ‘Piggy’, 110, 263
Heerjee family, 6, 12, 64
Highland Light Infantry, 113
Hindu, The, 22, 56, 58, 230
Hindu Kush, 31, 41
Hindu Mahasabha, 23–4
Hindustan Motors, 234
Hitler, Adolf, 23–5, 77, 237, 251, 258
HMS Cornwall, 61
HMS Dorsetshire, 61
HMS Durban Castle, 102
HMS Prince of Wales, 45
HMS Repulse, 45
HMS Strathaird, 11
Hong Kong, 45
Hooghly, river, 149
Hope, Governor Arthur, 59, 63
HT Akbar, 105
‘Hump, the’, 69, 185
Imphal, 52, 127, 141, 143, 146, 152, 154, 185–7, 209–11, 221, 230
Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, 231
India
civil disobedience, 83–4
emergence of fifth column, 77
failure of remembrance, 240–1
independence, 228, 233–4, 236
invasion threat, 256
offer of Dominion status, 57–8
and outbreak of war, 23–5
Partition violence, 236–7, 273
‘phoney war’, 149
recruitment of women, 254
uprising of 1857, 235
wartime casualties, 234
Indian Air Force (IAF), 18, 36–8, 229
Indian Army, 27–8, 37–8
affection for Auchinleck, 121, 148
allegiances, 89
constitution and modernisation, 82, 235
demobilisation and Partition violence, 236–7
‘Indianised battalions’, 84
insubordinations, 252, 25
8–9
integration, 84–5
and invasion of Italy, 132–3
jungle warfare training, 160–1
Kodava officers, 69, 235
lingua franca, 82
mechanisation, 260
morale, 142, 156, 165, 182, 210–211, 235
and pacification of Dutch East Indies, 227–8, 239
pre-war strength, 50
and reconquest of Burma, 235
recruitment, 88–90, 260
retraining for Burma campaign, 156–61, 182, 210
Indian Army Medical Corps, 53–4
Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 127
Indian Medical Service, 53, 68, 71, 257
Indian Military Academy, 27, 157
Indian National Army (JIFs), 167–8, 181, 186, 191, 200, 209, 211
involvement in atrocities, 178
rehabilitation of, 241–2
women’s regiment, 168, 242
Indian National Congress, 18, 23, 39, 167, 233
Bombay resolution, 74–6
and civil disobedience, 74–6, 84, 234
and ‘Indianisation’ of state personnel, 27
jailing of leadership, 75
and offer of Dominion status, 57–8
and outbreak of war, 24–5
and Partition violence, 236–7
and rehabilitation of INA, 241
suppression of, 149
Indian Ocean, Japanese threat to, 49, 61, 63
Indian Order of Merit, 103, 148, 229
Indian Telephone Industries, 230
Indonesia, see Dutch East Indies
Indus, river, 130
Iran, see Persia
Iraq, 43, 98–101, 127–8, 133, 147, 253, 262, 265
Irrawaddy, river, 144
Islami, 164
Italy
armed forces, 32, 97, 105–10, 124–5, 133, 135, 156, 234
invasion of, 132–3, 142, 216
POWs, 97, 110, 150
Iyengar Brahmins, 56
Iyengar, V. Ramaswamy, 267
Jackson, Private Tom, 203
Jagannath (sapper), 192
Jallianwala Bagh, 257
Jamshedpur, 55
Jang-i-Khabarein, 128
Japan Varuvaana, 154, 267
Japanese
atrocities, 177–8
captured officer’s diary, 182
enter war, 43–6
fanaticism, 159–60, 176, 212
jitter parties, 179, 194
propaganda leaflets, 51, 142, 209
retreat in Burma, 208–213
surrender, 221, 227, 237, 239, 241
treatment of prisoners, 159
Java, 221, 228, 239
Jehan Dad, Jemadar, 214
Jessami, 187, 207–8
Jodhpur, 34
Jotsoma, 193–4, 196, 202, 205, 208
Kabul, 32
Kalemyo, 227
Kappad, 4