NETAJI: INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE AND BRITISH ARCHIVES IN DELHI

“Netaji: India’s Independence and British Archives” by Kalyan Kumar De is a book that has come some seven-odd decades late. Published by Garuda Prakashan, this book puts in black-and-white, for the first-time ever, the huge, and virtually singular, role Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his Indian National Army played in the British deciding to leave India. Of course, it suited the British, the colonisers, to keep the colonised in the dark about their plans. However, upon reading this book, the reader would definitely question as to why the establishment post-India did not give due credit to this hero and allowed Netaji to join the pantheon of India’s forgotten heroes.  In bringing this book to the fore, Garuda Prakashan has stood true to its reputation of giving voice to the Indic platform and de-colonising the minds. The regularity with which it has come up with best-sellers in a short span of three years of its existence holds promise for the future of the Indic voices. Website: https://garudabooks.com/netaji-indias-independence-and-british-archives