Interresting comments found on this Stanford University link:
....the rapid advance of Japanese troops was a sort of racial payback time for the white man. There is some good reason to say that by kicking out the British or Dutch, the Japanese actually speeded up the decolonization process. In fact, pro-Japan “independence” leaders sprang up all over Asia after the Japanese expansion. Today most of their names ar forgotten. In India, it was Subhas Chandra Bose, in Cambodia, Son Ngoc Thanh, the list is long, Indonesia, Vietnam etc.
Glynn Wood writes: Readers should know that Rajan Borra was a member of Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army that fought against the Allies in World War II. Borra was the long time head of the South Asia collection at the Library of Congress, and (on his own) held an annual conference on Bose. The thrust of the conference was that Bose had not been killed in an air crash in Taiwan in 1945, but would come back when Bengal needed him. ... ... ...
Some more links:
Sources:http://library.flawlesslogic.com/bose_1.htmhttp://library.flawlesslogic.com/And on the “revisionist” site Journal of Historical Review:http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v03/v03p407_Borra.ht
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