ships/shipping 34–5, 82–4, 90, 97, 166, 167
destruction and requisitioning of Bengali boats 95–7
see also Lascars
Sidi Barrani (1940) 63
Sikhs xiii, 57, 276–7
in Indian Army 16, 22, 23, 39, 64, 225–6
prisoners of war 294–5
Simla 98, 151, 154, 155, 189, 272
Simla Conference (1945) 300–1
Sind 54
Singapore 3, 19
Bose in 216–17, 218
evacuees/refugees 98, 105
fall of (1942) 93, 94, 95, 113, 176
formation of INA 118
Indian communities 116, 117
Japanese civilians captured 112
Japanese radio propaganda 218–19
Sitarampur 200
Slate, Nico: Colored Cosmopolitanism 270
Slim, Field Marshal William 73, 148, 231
Defeat into Victory 97–8, 99, 116, 155, 193–4, 241, 249, 254, 259, 260
Snake Island 130
Somali, SS 47
Sorenson, Reginald 194
Spanish Civil War 9, 42
Spectator 222
Stalin, Joseph 9, 90
Statesman, The (newspaper) 133, 193, 205, 299
Stavridi, Margaret 2
Stilwell, General Joseph 174, 260, 271
strikes 47–8, 49
Sudan, the 19, 67
Sylhet/Sylhetis 48, 50, 318
Symonds, Richard 108; In the Margins of Independence 108
Tagore, Abanindranath 112
Tagore, Rabindranath 82, 90–91, 92
Talwar, HMS 184
Tamils 118, 262, 289
Tangkhuls, the 248
Tara Singh 23
Tarring, Joyce 45
Tata Iron and Steel 85, 152, 166
Tavistock Clinic, London 255
taxi drivers 275–7
tea plantations 101, 158, 159, 161, 259
workers as road builders 158–62
Telegraph, Indian 122–3
Tench, Peggy 214
Tewari, Krishna Kumar: A Soldier’s Voyage of Self-Discovery 35
textile industry 53, 83, 85, 87, 88, 138, 167, 168, 204, 297–8
Thai–Burma railway 118, 295
Thailand 117, 119, 310
thakurs 23, 24–5
Thompson, Edward 45
Thorner, Daniel 88
Tiger Strikes, The 68, 71–2
Time magazine 5, 7, 107
Times, The 317
Times of India 69–70, 124, 269
Tobruk 39, 76, 78, 176
Toschi, Elios 78, 292–3
tourism, beinnings of 145
trade and industry 82–3, 84, 85–8, 137, 138–9, 156, 165–-9, 174
and decommissioning 307–8
see also Birla, G. D.; Hirachand, Walchand
trains see railways
Travancore 7, 139
State Labour Unit 262
Tuker, Lt General Francis: Gorkha … 8
Tunis campaign (1943) 76, 221
Twynam, Sir Henry, Governor of the Central Provinces 40, 139–40
Udham Singh: Caxton Hall murder 44–5
Uemura, Hirozi 112
Ukhrul 247
unemployment, postwar 298
Unionist government 220–21
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 209
United Provinces 6, 9,
Director of Civil Defence 98
District Welfare Board 37
famine 202
hospitals 252
rebellion 185, 191
and recruitment 16, 22, 28
requisitioning 163
War Fund donations 52, 53, 54
United States Army see American troops
Vadgam 25
Valasna 24–5
Valivade: Polish refugee camp 124–5
Varma, Ashali: The Victoria Cross 36, 42–3, 69–70, 311
Vatsayan (author) 91
Vellore 115
venereal disease 149, 193–4, 224, 239, 240, 241, 254
Viceroy’s War Purposes Fund 53
Vizagapatam 82–3, 97, 109, 110, 115, 133, 186
Voice, J. H. 311
Volkart Brothers 156
WAC (I) see Women’s Auxiliary Corpos (India)
War Fund, the 1, 51–4, 61, 156
War in Pictures (newspaper) 89, 224
War Office 75, 95, 118, 153
Waterfall, Charles, Governor of the Andamans 80, 81, 125–6, 127
Waterfall, Eve 126
Wavell, Field Marshal Sir Archibald
as Commander in Chief, Middle East 35, 63, 68, 69
in India 70, 73, 99
on Indian National Army trials ix
meets Gandhi (1945) 301
survives air crashes 172
as Viceroy of India 211, 212–13, 271, 272, 288
Waziristan 20
Weatherford, Teddy 156
Wheeler, General Raymond 174
Who’s Who (American edition) 199
Wilson, Stanley 311
women
British memsahibs 145, 153–5, 284
cyclists 156
employment of xv–xvi, 86–7, 153, 154, 261, 272, 273–4
nurses xiii, 103—4, 155, 235, 245, 250—52, 272–3
as recipients of medals 220
and recruitment of menfolk 16, 31–3, 39–40
as sepoys’ wives and girlfriends 234–8
sexual threats to 149, 150–51, 224
see also prostitutes/prostitution and below
Women’s Auxiliary Corps (India) (WAC (I)) 154, 155, 171–2, 198, 272, 273
Women’s Volunteer Service 155
Workers’ Educational Association (Britain) 176
World War, First xi, 8, 19–20, 26, 44, 63
Young, Desmond: Try Anything Twice 2, 11, 12
youth movements, Indian (1930s) 9
Yusuf, Mohammad 312
zamindars (landholders) 22
Zetland, Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquis of 8
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