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The Road to Delhi
Representatives
Continental Europe: BOXERBOOKS, INC., Zurich
British Isles: PRENTICE-HALL INTERNATIONAL, INC., London
Australasia: PAUL FLESCH & CO., PTY. LTD., Melbourne
Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.
of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan
with editorial offices at
Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032
© 1966, by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc.
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card Mo. 67-11427
ISBN: 978-1-4629-1278-0 (ebook)
First edition, 1967
[email protected] www.tuttlepublishing.com
Book design & typography by Keiko Chiba
PRINTED IN JAPAN
To
My Mother
and
Father
Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Chapter | 1 | THE JOY-RIDE |
| 2 | "BORYAKU" | |
| 3 | THE DAWN OF FREEDOM! | |
| 4 | DESTINY OBSCURE | |
| 5 | GROWING PAINS | |
| 6 | THE CHANGEOVER | |
| 7 | BERLIN-TOKYO-SINGAPORE | |
| 8 | THE BURMA BINGE | |
| 9 | TRIUMPHS GALORE | |
| 10 | CHALO DELHI! | |
| 11 | THE BATTLE FOR INDIA | |
| 12 | HORROR IN THE JUNGLES | |
| 13 | "DO OR DIE" | |
| 14 | TWILIGHT IN TOKYO | |
| 15 | BLOOD AND TEARS | |
| 16 | THE CRASH |
Foreword
DECEMBER 1941, in war-torn Malaya. The British forces were on the rout with the Japanese in hot pursuit, sweeping everything in their path.
Tied to a rubber tree in the jungle stood a young Indian officer of the defeated British Army. A few yards away stood a Japanese corporal, gun in hand.
"Austorarian-ka?" yelled the conquering corporal. He had mistaken the handsome Indian for an Australian.
The Indian officer had resigned himself to his fate. He knew there was no escape. In a flash, he fainted and would have collapsed on the ground. But he was secured fast against the rubber tree. And the helmet fell off his drooping head, revealing a tuft of long hair—one of the caste-marks of the orthodox Hindu.
Suddenly, the Japanese corporal became a changed man. With profuse apologies, he rushed to the Indian officer, released him from captivity, and overwhelmed him with goodwill and kindness.
India won the first round in the great war between rival imperialisms in Southeast Asia.
* * *
August, 1945. The war was over. The victorious Allied forces were busy restoring peace, enforcing law, order, and justice.
They arrested war criminals and set up war crimes tribunals everywhere. The British nabbed thousands of Indians in the re-occupied territories in Southeast Asia, launched endless investigations and interrogations, with threats of dire action against them.
Facing a military court-martial at the historic Red Fort in Delhi were three Indian officers of the wartime Indian National Army. Death stared them in the face.
But India rallied to the support of the men involved in that test case and the cause they represented. Eloquence at court, riots on the streets, protest meetings everywhere— the entire country took
