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JAI HIND: THE DIARY OF A REBEL DAUGHTER OF INDIA WITH THE RANI OF JHANSI REGIMENT |
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This diary was published in the form of a book by Janmabhoomi Prakashan Mandir, Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1945. In his introduction to the book, Amritlal D Sheth, founder of the Janmabhoomi group of newspapers, wrote:
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My recent trip to Burma and Siam not only afforded me contacts with men and material connected with the Azad Hind Government of Subhas Babu but I also received special attention of many other contacts after my arrival home. That is how the material like the present publication could be contacted and I am delightful to see that it receives the publicity that it deserves so richly.
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CONTENTS
- The Frying Pan
- And the Fire
- Dawn of Freedom
- Hukumat-e-Azad Hind
- Chalo Dilli
- Ebbing Tide
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…Let me emphasize once again that the present publication is a chronicle of events pure and simple, and is meant as such. If it were the times of war, I would have advised the publisher not to publish it, lest it may affect the conduct of war. But now, war being over, such a chronicle should be recorded immediately before the memories grow faint and elements of exaggeration or glorification creep into it. The present publication has tried to avoid both.
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A word about Subhas Babu and his Azad Hind Government. There are people in India, who do not like the step that Subhas Babu took about the formation of his Government etc. They are entitled to their view. But even they and the worst of his opponents must accept, in fairness, the loftiness of the motives of Subhas Babu, the historic risk he took and the sublime sacrifice that he made in his venture of the Azad Hind Government.
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We have been disarmed by our rulers for the last two hundred years; our nation is afraid to handle arms; we feel we cannot arm ourselves and fight for our freedom. Subhas proved to us and to the world that all that nervousness is momentary. We, even the merchants and clerks amongst us, even the girls, could be armed and could fight. He solved for us the communal question, the food question, the language question — and what not? His experiment in East Asia is a neo-sign of guidance for the future work for our nation. Yes, his East Asian experiment of Azad Government taught us a lot and opened our eyes. We feel we are tougher, better and more deservingg of our freedom. Our country owes to him a debt. We did owe him much for what he did in India, but we owe him much more, very very much more for what he did in East Asia.
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Introduction
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Here are some leaves from the diary of an unknown daughter of India, an eye-witness of the glorious epic of the Indian Freedom Movement in East Asia.
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She watched the precipitate collapse of the British Empire in the stormy days of December 1941 and onwards. She saw the Yellow Hordes sweep Malaya and Burma from end to end ; she was present at the birth of the Revolution which quickly took concrete shape in the Provisional Government of Free India with its independent army—the Azad Hind Fauj of immortal fame. She was not only there at the moment of the uncertain dawn of the Movement, but she lived through the blaze of noon tide, and saw the lengthening shadows of the sunset merging into the creeping darkness of the coming black night.
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This is no idle journal of an arm-chair egotist, the vapourings of a Society doll, nor the swoops of a well-trained news-hound. It is the straightforward, first-hand, matter-of-fact account by an Indian Woman Revolutionary, who took up the gun to fight with the Rani of Jhansi Regiment.
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She has no use for literary embellishments. Her one anxiety is that the echo of " JAI-HIND " and all that it meant to thirty lakhs of fighters for freedom, shall ring true in our own country.
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All we have done is to carefully remove names of workers and such material as may not bear publication for obvious reasons.
—The Editors.
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