Independence & Partition · November 1945
INA Trials
Officers of Bose's Indian National Army were tried at the Red Fort, prompting nationwide protest.
Causes
- INA campaign in Burma and Northeast India (1944)
Consequences
- Royal Indian Navy mutiny (1946)
- Loyalty of the Indian armed forces in doubt
Significance
Signalled to Britain that its hold over the army was gone.
People
Sources
- Bipan Chandra et al., India's Struggle for Independence (Penguin, 1988)
- Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, From Plassey to Partition (Orient BlackSwan, 2004)