Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: After-1945 - Revision history

Jyoti: /* 2021: France ‘closes’ for 100 years file that could solve the mystery */

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‎2021: France ‘closes’ for 100 years file that could solve the mystery

Pdewan: /* The crash: for and against */

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‎The crash: for and against

Jyoti: /* Closure */

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‎Closure

Jyoti: /* June 11, 1942 */

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‎June 11, 1942

Jyoti: /* The great escape limousine */

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‎The great escape limousine

Jyoti: /* Gumnami Baba */

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‎Gumnami Baba

Jyoti: /* His last stop */

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‎His last stop

Jyoti: /* The Gumnami Baba of Faizabad? */

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‎The Gumnami Baba of Faizabad?

Jyoti: /* ‘Bose died in Saigon, Vietnam's, Bot Catinat prison in September 1945’ */

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‎‘Bose died in Saigon, Vietnam's, Bot Catinat prison in September 1945’

Pdewan: /* Family under surveillance */

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‎Family under surveillance

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 A report filed by French captain Pauwels, who was chief of police in Saigon after August 1945, is crucial in this case. “The arrest of Bose and some of his Saigon associates was made under the orders and supervision of Captain Pauwels and they were incarcerated at Bot Catinat prison, which was the dreaded principal colonial prison,” said More, quoting Note Verbale of Capitaine Pauwels, chief of police services, Saigon dated 26 January 1946.
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+[https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/netajis-family-differed-on-dna-testing-ashes/articleshow/53473853.cms?from=mdr  July 31, 2016: ''The Times of India'']
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+NEW DELHI: The Netaji papers released reveal that the freedom fighter's family was sharply divided over conducting a DNA test on his presumptive remains kept in a Japanese temple. DNA tests would have laid to rest the controversy over the authenticity of the remains and the conspiracy theories on the death of Netaji.
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+While Subhas Chandra Bose's daughter Anita Pfaff did not approve of the DNA test, his elder brother's grandson Ashish C Ray was in favour and even proposed an international team of experts. Incidentally, Pfaff 's refusal in 1995-96 is in contrast to her demand for DNA analysis earlier this year.
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 Subhas Bose's last days
 Mr. Subhas Chandra Bose was being brought to Tokyo as the first step in his transfer to Manchuria where he was expected to seek safety and protection from the Russians
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 The author maintained that Nejati’s remains, preserved in an urn at Japan’s Renkoji temple, must be brought back to India. Bose’s daughter, too, wants a formal closure, he said, revealing that she has urged the government to bring back the urn to fulfil his father’s last wish of returning to free India — even if it’s after over 70 years.
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 Family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who had for decades contested the Shah Nawaz Committee (1956) and Khosla Commission (1970) findings on his death, are finally of the view that he had indeed died in Taihoku (in present-day Taiwan) on August 18, 1945. The family wants the DNA analysis done at laboratories in India, Japan, US, UK and Germany to pre-empt any conspiracy theory about the results being doctored.
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 Netaji meets Hitler
 The Berlin Radio was announcing that Hitler had received Subhas Chandra Bose at his headquarters.
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 On January 18, Sugata Bose, Netaji's grand-nephew and Trinamool MP, will drive the car with President Pranab Mukherjee on the rear seat to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the great escape. Bose has been practising driving the 1937 make car for the past few days.
 The sedan was driven regularly till 1957 by Sugata's father, Sisir Kumar Bose, who was also at the wheel during Netaji's escape from Kolkata.
 The restoration of the 1.8-litre limousine was not an easy job with the original maker, Auto Union of Germany, having shut down after World War II. But one of the four entities that the company metamorphosed into, Audi, was a big help.
 "Audi gave technical expertise and a vintage car restorer, Pallab Roy, and his team started working in May 2016 to restore it fully. It is the most prized possession of the Netaji Research Bureau museum. Now, once a week, people will see this car in motion in the driveway of the building," said Sugata.
 The great escape was meticulously planned by Netaji - who was under 24x7 surveillance of the British - with his nephew Sisir. "There was a great deal of discussion on the choice of car. First it was decided to use the car of his elder brother, Sarat Chandra Bose. But it was too well known. Then it was decided to take the Wanderer, which was bought by Sarat Chandra Bose and registered (BLA 7169) in the name of Sisir Bose, my father. Back in 1937, the 1.8-litre four-door limo cost him Rs 4,680," said Sugata. It was in the middle of the night on January 16, 1941, that Netaji left home in the guise of Mohammed Ziauddin. He took the rear seat as Sisir, then only 21, drove the Wanderer from Kolkata to Gomoh and back.
 Sisir Bose continued to drive the car till 1957. "I remember riding it regularly after my marriage in 1955," recalled Krishna Bose, wife of Sisir Bose and a former MP. "By then, the car had got a fresh coat of a black paint. Later, it was painted grey. Even as a baby, Sugata, my elder son, took many a drive in that car with us. At times it used to break down and I have so many memories of having to push it down Rashbehari Avenue," said Krishna Bose, now the chairperson of NRB Pallab Roy, who has suc cessfully restored a 1928 Studebaker President 8 State Limousine and a Mercedes 230 S 1967, was roped in by Audi in May 2016 to restore the car.
-"Audi took me to Netaji Bhaban and I immediately agreed because it was a chance to be part of history," said Roy. He started work on July 1 and will formally hand over the refurbished car to NRB on Tuesday. "We did it in record time. A restoration work like this takes more than a year. But this job was like a passion for me and I worked round the clock. My son, Sourav, too helped me," he added. The real challenge was to restore the engine, which was "in a bad shape", he said. Sugata Bose said the restoration is also a tribute to some excellent mechanics of Bengal.
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 Singh heads the SC Bose Rashtriya Vichar Kendra in Faizabad. He said the documents retrieved from Ram Bhawan indicate that the Baba was not just another sage, but an “extraordinary human being“.
-===The Gumnami Baba of Faizabad?===
 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=07_09_2015_010_019_002&type=P&artUrl=ENDURING-ENIGMA-07092015010019&eid=31808 ''The Times of India'']
 [[File: Bhagwanji's stay in UP.jpg|Bhagwanji's stay in UP; Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=07_09_2015_010_019_002&type=P&artUrl=ENDURING-ENIGMA-07092015010019&eid=31808 ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
-====Was Bhagwanji the same as Netaji?====
+===Was Bhagwanji the same as Netaji?===
 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=ENDURING-ENIGMA-07092015010019 ''The Times of India''], Sep 07 2015
 One of the reasons why followers of Bhagwanji are convinced he was Netaji is the uncanny knowledge of minute details about brief encounters Netaji had with them before the Great Escape from his Elgin Road residence on January 16, 1941. The most startling among them was things he would say to emissaries through whom Lila Roy sent money and sundry items every month till her death in 1970 h Since Bhagwanji kept shifting from one place to another, he would send coded messages to let emissaries know when he was in a dera. The emissaries would then carry a brief note that Lila Roy wrote about them to assuage Bhagwanji's apprehensions about their trustworthiness h There are many anecdotes that emissaries believed were clinching proof that Bhagwanji was Netaji. In a note on one Apurba Ghosh, it was mentioned that he was in the reception committee at Manikganj. In the deposition before the Justice Mukherjee Commission, he recounted the interaction between him and Bhagwanji. “He asked me whether I was the man who offered him a comb when he came out of the bathroom in Kutcharibari after having his bath. When I said yes, he asked me whether I had noticed him smiling. He said he had smiled because instead of offering the comb on a plate or dish, I had offered it with my bare hands. He also enquired about Bahadur, the durwan at the Bose residence on Elgin Road. He then asked me if I had seen the calendar with a picture of Goddess Kali in Netaji's living room. I had seen it there. These are things that only Netaji himself would have known,“ Ghosh told the commission.
-=== ‘ Letters prove Gumnami was Netaji:’ Baggett===
+== ‘ Letters prove Gumnami was Netaji:’ Baggett==
 [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F04%2F25&entity=Ar00511&sk=0CE12BF8&mode=text  Himanshi Dhawan, April 25, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
 A leading American handwriting expert has concluded that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose lived in India for several decades after Independence, under the identity of a reclusive ascetic, Gumnami Baba, claims a new book. The expert, Carl Baggett, reached his conclusion after studying letters written by both Bose and Gumnami Baba.
 Baggett has over 40 years of experience, handled over 5,000 cases, and testified as an expert witness in handwriting in all states in the US.
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 The authors believe that the letters — made public for the first time by Roy’s family — provide clinching evidence and plan to take the issue to court to press for a multi-disciplinary investigation into the mystery around Bose’s death.
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-===On the Gumnami trail===
 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=On-The-Gumnami-Trail-08092015014021 ''The Times of India''], Sep 08 2015
 [[File: Netaji inspecting Azad Hind Fauj in 1940.jpg|Picture courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=On-The-Gumnami-Trail-08092015014021 ''The Times of India''], Sep 08 2015|frame|500px]]
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 While Dhar is perturbed by the UP government's silence on the inquiry the HC judges had stated in their order, he is glad that a museum is finally under way to scientifically preserve the ascetic's contents for re-examination. In their observation on a case (No. 929 of 1986) filed by Netaji's niece Lalita Bose, Justice Devi Prasad Singh and Justice Virendra Kumar Dixit observed that during the search of Bhagwanji's house, “a large number of belongings and literature associated with the INA in general and Subhas Chandra Bose in particular came to light. There were a large number of family photographs, reports of inquiry commission related to the death of Netaji etc. It also transpired that a special ceremony used to be held in the room of Bhagwanji each January 23 which, incidentally , is the birthday of Subhas Chandra Bose and that on that day , no person from Faizabad was allowed to visit him. Some persons from Kolkata used to come and stay with him for that day“.
-===Pranab Mukherjee, Congress minister, met Gumnami?===
+==Pranab Mukherjee, Congress minister, met Gumnami?==
 [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Pranab-Mukherjee-had-met-Gumnami-Baba-as-Congress-mantri/articleshow/55063488.cms    Arunav Sinha | TNN | Oct 26, 2016, 'Pranab Mukherjee had met Gumnami Baba as Congress mantri'  The Times of India]
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 Shukla told TOI: "It was around 1981-82 when I was instructed by Bhagwanji to accompany a Bengali gentleman to the local market. The Bengali gentleman was staying at Ayodhya's Birla Dharamshala. I ferried the gentleman on my Yezdi motorcycle to Chowk area of Faizabad, where he purchased clothes and some dry fruits."
 He added that the clothes were purchased from a prominent shop (Kanhaiyya Lal Baldev). "After this, I dropped the gentleman at Birla Dharamshala. Since I stayed with the Bengali gentleman for a long time, I could recall his face. Later, when he became a Union minister and subsequently the President, I could easily recall and recollect that the person whom I took to the market was Pranab Mukherjee," Shukla wrote in his submission to the commission.
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 "I had never seen Bhagwanji (Baba) till the time he was alive (sic) but had the opportunity of getting blessed by him, physically touching his feet and even repairing his room cooler (while covered in a blanket or bedsheet).The first time I saw Bhagwanji with my own eyes was after he passed away, and he closely resembled Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose," Shukla said.
-===Surviving a smear campaign===
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 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Siberian-survivor-to-secretive-sadhu-Netaji-mystery-lives-11092015023013 ''The Times of India''], Sep 11 2015
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 The Panda -whom Gumnami Baba used to call Nand baba -is now dead but Arora recollects a story told by him.“It was night in the dead of the winter and Gumnami Baba was sleeping in the room. Ram Kishore was sleeping outside with an angeethi to warm him. Suddenly , Ram Kishore realized that the Baba could be feeling cold. So he hastened inside to ask the Baba if he needed the angeethi. Baba replied: this body has lived in Siberia. It does not require warmth,“ Arora remembers Ram Kishore having told him.
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 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=His-last-stop-08092015014070 ''The Times of India''], Sep 08 2015
 [[File: Ram Bhawan, Bhagwanji's home.jpg|Ram Bhawan, Bhagwanji's home; Picture courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=His-last-stop-08092015014070 ''The Times of India''], Sep 08 2015|frame|500px]]
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	After Bhagwanji's death, an idea struck Singh. He used to see children playing around the room where Bhagwanji lived.“I called the children and asked them to describe the person who used to stay there. I also hired an artist to make the sketch on the basis of the children's description. When the artist turned the canvas towards us, we were astounded by the similarities between the sketch of Gumnami Baba and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as he appeared in photographs,“ recalls Singh.		After Bhagwanji's death, an idea struck Singh. He used to see children playing around the room where Bhagwanji lived.“I called the children and asked them to describe the person who used to stay there. I also hired an artist to make the sketch on the basis of the children's description. When the artist turned the canvas towards us, we were astounded by the similarities between the sketch of Gumnami Baba and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as he appeared in photographs,“ recalls Singh.
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		+	==2019/ Justice Sahai Commission ‘not sure’ if Baba was Netaji==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F07%2F24&entity=Ar01108&sk=F9B3B538&mode=text July 24, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Was Gumnami Baba Netaji? Not sure: Report
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		+	The Justice Vishnu Sahai Commission’s report on the mysterious ‘Gumnami Baba’, which was tabled in the UP cabinet, says it’s difficult to determine whether he was indeed Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, as popularly believed.
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		+	The findings of the commission formed in 2016, which will now be tabled in the UP assembly, reportedly only draw parallels between Bose and the Baba. It mentions that other than literature in English, Bengali and Hindi, the three languages in which Netaji was fluent, books on Bose himself and authors he liked to read have been recovered. Sources said that the report also mentions that Gumnami Baba was also fluent in these three languages and was an influential person to whom people flocked.
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		+	“As per the report, Gumnami Baba continued to stay in his Faizabad house till rumours of him being Subhash Chandra Bose surfaced, after which he left that place,” said the source.
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		+	The report, prepared by Justice Vishnu Sahai, was commissioned by the SP government in 2016 on directions of Allahabad HC. The court order followed a PIL, in which the petitioner claimed that Gumnami Baba was Netaji.
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		+	Sahai had told TOI in September 2017 — a day after submitting the report to the governor — that many people he interviewed had come with the pre-conceived notion that Gumnami Baba was Bose. He said collecting reliable testimony was a challenge since Baba died in 1985 and witnesses deposed before the commission only in 2016 and 2017.
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	One of the reasons why followers of Bhagwanji are convinced he was Netaji is the uncanny knowledge of minute details about brief encounters Netaji had with them before the Great Escape from his Elgin Road residence on January 16, 1941. The most startling among them was things he would say to emissaries through whom Lila Roy sent money and sundry items every month till her death in 1970 h Since Bhagwanji kept shifting from one place to another, he would send coded messages to let emissaries know when he was in a dera. The emissaries would then carry a brief note that Lila Roy wrote about them to assuage Bhagwanji's apprehensions about their trustworthiness h There are many anecdotes that emissaries believed were clinching proof that Bhagwanji was Netaji. In a note on one Apurba Ghosh, it was mentioned that he was in the reception committee at Manikganj. In the deposition before the Justice Mukherjee Commission, he recounted the interaction between him and Bhagwanji. “He asked me whether I was the man who offered him a comb when he came out of the bathroom in Kutcharibari after having his bath. When I said yes, he asked me whether I had noticed him smiling. He said he had smiled because instead of offering the comb on a plate or dish, I had offered it with my bare hands. He also enquired about Bahadur, the durwan at the Bose residence on Elgin Road. He then asked me if I had seen the calendar with a picture of Goddess Kali in Netaji's living room. I had seen it there. These are things that only Netaji himself would have known,“ Ghosh told the commission.		One of the reasons why followers of Bhagwanji are convinced he was Netaji is the uncanny knowledge of minute details about brief encounters Netaji had with them before the Great Escape from his Elgin Road residence on January 16, 1941. The most startling among them was things he would say to emissaries through whom Lila Roy sent money and sundry items every month till her death in 1970 h Since Bhagwanji kept shifting from one place to another, he would send coded messages to let emissaries know when he was in a dera. The emissaries would then carry a brief note that Lila Roy wrote about them to assuage Bhagwanji's apprehensions about their trustworthiness h There are many anecdotes that emissaries believed were clinching proof that Bhagwanji was Netaji. In a note on one Apurba Ghosh, it was mentioned that he was in the reception committee at Manikganj. In the deposition before the Justice Mukherjee Commission, he recounted the interaction between him and Bhagwanji. “He asked me whether I was the man who offered him a comb when he came out of the bathroom in Kutcharibari after having his bath. When I said yes, he asked me whether I had noticed him smiling. He said he had smiled because instead of offering the comb on a plate or dish, I had offered it with my bare hands. He also enquired about Bahadur, the durwan at the Bose residence on Elgin Road. He then asked me if I had seen the calendar with a picture of Goddess Kali in Netaji's living room. I had seen it there. These are things that only Netaji himself would have known,“ Ghosh told the commission.
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		+	=== ‘ Letters prove Gumnami was Netaji:’ Baggett===
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F04%2F25&entity=Ar00511&sk=0CE12BF8&mode=text Himanshi Dhawan, April 25, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	A leading American handwriting expert has concluded that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose lived in India for several decades after Independence, under the identity of a reclusive ascetic, Gumnami Baba, claims a new book. The expert, Carl Baggett, reached his conclusion after studying letters written by both Bose and Gumnami Baba.
		+	Baggett has over 40 years of experience, handled over 5,000 cases, and testified as an expert witness in handwriting in all states in the US.
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		+	He was given the two sets of letters to analyse without being told the writers’ identities. After he said they were written by the same man, he was told the person was Bose. Baggett stood by his conclusion and gave a signed statement to that effect.
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		+	''' Book tries to explain why ‘Bose stayed in hiding’ '''
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		+	According to official records, Bose was killed in an air crash in Taiwan in August 1945 and his ashes were later deposited at the Renkoji temple in Tokyo. However, there have long been theories that he survived the crash, made his way to India and lived as Gumnami Baba in Uttar Pradesh’s Faizabad for several decades.
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		+	The book, ‘Conundrum: Subhas Bose’s Life After Death’ by Chandrachur Ghose and Anuj Dhar, mentions a set of 130 letters written by Gumnami Baba to Pabitra Mohan Roy between 1962 and 1985. Roy had served in the INA and was a confidante of Netaji. The book says he kept in touch with Gumnami Baba and often met him over the years.
		+	After examining the letters written by Gumnami Baba to Roy, and also to other revolutionaries, and comparing them with letters proven to be Bose’s writings, Baggett has concluded that they were written by the same person.
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		+	The book also seeks to answer the most obvious question: Why did Bose remain in hiding for so many years? After consultations with psychologists who have examined the letters written by Gumnami Baba, the authors say it’s possible that Bose suffered from psychological trauma, perhaps because of torture in Russian captivity.
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		+	The authors believe that the letters — made public for the first time by Roy’s family — provide clinching evidence and plan to take the issue to court to press for a multi-disciplinary investigation into the mystery around Bose’s death.
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	A report filed by French captain Pauwels, who was chief of police in Saigon after August 1945, is crucial in this case. "The arrest of Bose and some of his Saigon associates was made under the orders and supervision of Captain Pauwels and they were incarcerated at Bot Catinat prison, which was the dreaded principal colonial prison," said More, quoting Note Verbale of Capitaine Pauwels, chief of police services, Saigon dated 26 January 1946.		A report filed by French captain Pauwels, who was chief of police in Saigon after August 1945, is crucial in this case. "The arrest of Bose and some of his Saigon associates was made under the orders and supervision of Captain Pauwels and they were incarcerated at Bot Catinat prison, which was the dreaded principal colonial prison," said More, quoting Note Verbale of Capitaine Pauwels, chief of police services, Saigon dated 26 January 1946.
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		+	==2018: Grandnephew: Netaji couldn’t have survived crash==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F12%2F02&entity=Ar01215&sk=AE0117CC&mode=text December 2, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Author and journalist Ashis Ray, the grandnephew of Subhash Chandra Bose, sought to put to rest speculation around the 1945 plane crash in Taiwan.
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		+	As the crowd at his session, a mix of young and mostly old, listened with rapt attention, Ray chronicled the sequence of events on the fateful day. He said that with Japan’s surrender, it was no longer a safe haven for Bose. “The British were approaching, and it was decided to move him from Singapore to the Far East and finally to the Soviet Union. They boarded a Sally Bomber aircraft on August 16, 1945 and spent the night in Bangkok. The next day, they left for Saigon, and from there for Tokyo. On August 18, after a breakfast of sandwiches and bananas, they boarded an aircraft, which crashed minutes after take-off.”
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		+	Bose’s grandnephew, said it was impossible for Bose to survive as he was seated beside two cans of aviation fuel and was wearing cotton. “It was undoubtedly a faulty plane as the left propeller was a makeshift one. When the aircraft crashed, he was drenched in fuel and suffered third degree burns while coming out. He died the same day at 9pm after fighting for his life for six hours.”
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		+	Ray said his book, ‘Subhash Chandra Bose — Laid to Rest’, is based on 11 investigations carried out in four countries, eyewitness accounts and documentaries.
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		+	He added that Bose was a prolific leader and also a courageous and patriotic person. “Bose’s was a meteoric rise in politics. By the age of 41, he had become the Congress president. Between him and Nehru there were only tactical differences as both were on the same page when it came to social and political issues.”
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		+	The absence of a formal announcement of his death bred several conspiracy theories. “His confidant and brother Sarat Bose had expressed only anguish in his personal diary over the news and never provided a closure. Sarat’s untimely death in 1950 gave rise to more speculation.” However, the fact that Sarat built Netaji Bhavan in Kolkata in his brother’s memory just proves that he was sure in his heart that “Subhash will never return”.
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		+	The author maintained that Nejati’s remains, preserved in an urn at Japan’s Renkoji temple, must be brought back to India. Bose’s daughter, too, wants a formal closure, he said, revealing that she has urged the government to bring back the urn to fulfil his father’s last wish of returning to free India — even if it’s after over 70 years.

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