Chapter 13 How to deal with the Indian traitor

This is the main purpose of this civil service meeting, and the subtext is to make money! Practicing the mission of the British Empire not to surrender until the last drop of blood in India is shed.

Of course, there is no problem with this, and most of the senior officials believe that this matter is not difficult to do, but the senior officials of Mumbai and Bangladesh provinces have expressed their hope that the Congress Party will give a clear support on this matter.

Needless to say, Bangladesh has only been two years after the Great Famine in Bangladesh, and Bengal Province, which is very close to Burma, will definitely have to shoulder the heavy responsibility, which requires the support of the Indian elite.

That is, the strong support of the Congress Party, British India and the Congress Party did not have a very harmonious relationship, and they were wary of each other and took advantage of each other, you know, Burke, a high-ranking Bangladeshi official, also said, "In fact, although the mutinies made by the Indian soldiers were quickly suppressed, this trend cannot but be worrying." ”

As early as July 1942, the Congress Party made a request to the British authorities for complete independence, drafting a document stating that if Britain did not agree to its demands, mass disobedience was about to erupt. Subsequently, the Mumbai meeting of the Central Committee of the Congress Party passed the "Withdrawal from India Resolution", marking the official beginning of the withdrawal from India. The movement was on a grand scale, beginning with peaceful demonstrations, denial of authority, and weakening of the British war's gains, followed by massive protests across India and calls for collective strikes.

At the same time, the Japanese occupation of Burma posed a threat to British India, which really startled many people in British India, but the movement was eventually quelled.

"Alan, what's going on in Hyderabad." Sir Barron turned to Alan Wilson, hoping for good news from him.

"Sir Barron, there can be no doubt that the princely states of Hyderabad, and of the other minor princely states, are still very supportive of the Viceroyalty and the administration of British India." Alan Wilson stood up and reported in a moderately sized voice, "I believe that the same is true of most of the princely states, who have always regarded British India as an important force in ensuring order in South Asia, and they are not the same as the Congress Party and the Muslim League. ”

Sir Barron nodded, and then John stood up and said, "The princely states of Junagadh and the princely states of the west coast are also calm, much more at ease than in many areas where the Congress party has established influence. ”

"So it doesn't seem too bad!" Sir Barron nodded, and then said worriedly, "There is another problem, although it has not yet arisen, but we must be vigilant and come up with a solution early, which is what the Governor expects of us." What to do with the Indian National Army? ”

Sir Barron was greeted with silence, the dawn of victory was not far off, but the problems that were about to arise were becoming more and more intractable: the Indian National Army was a military organization founded by Chandra Bose, which initially consisted mainly of British Indian prisoners of war captured by the Axis powers, and later many Indians from Japanese-controlled Malaya and Burma voluntarily joined the group.

The group's goal was to liberate India from the British, so it assisted the Japanese in the Battle of Imphal against the British Indian Army during the Japanese occupation of Burma in World War II.

Although Chandra Bose joined the Axis side, he did have great prestige in later generations, and his portrait has always been hung with Gandhi and Nehru, which can be imagined his own status in India.

How to face this anti-British armed force, although no one spoke first, they all wanted to kill Chandra Bose and the entire Indian National Army.

"It's still a time of war, and it's too early to talk about it, but if the problem arises. It is not a good idea to use Indian soldiers to keep an eye on these so-called National Army soldiers. Burke, a high-ranking official in Bangladesh, said, "The presence of many Indian soldiers with these Axis soldiers is likely to contribute to the spread of dangerous ideas, which is detrimental to the British Empire." ”

"You can actually let them stay in Myanmar so that they can be isolated. For most of the Indian National Army soldiers, we can of course not exist, as for how the Burmese treat them, we can not care or ask, wait for a few years, it will have nothing to do with us, after the war reconstruction, resumption of production so many things, even forget these people is very normal, isn't it? ”

Alan Wilson followed the words of the high-ranking Bangladesh provincial official, circled around and continued, "As for Chandra Bowes himself, of course I hope that he will die directly in the war, but the war is not over yet, so you can leave him alone for now. ”

Alan Wilson proposed that tens of thousands of prisoners of war from the Indian National Army be thrown to Burma to fend for themselves, without the need to be escorted back to India. He still knows a little about Myanmar, the largest ethnic group in Myanmar, the Burmese, and most of the ethnic groups, have no friendship with Indians at all, and the religion is not the same, Myanmar is Buddhism, India is Hinduism.

Don't think that Buddhists must be very peace-loving, Chinese Buddhists also became Buddhas after in-depth exchanges between the Three Martial Arts and One Sect and Buddhists. Burmese Buddhism has never been extinguished, and now it is the same murder and arson.

Moreover, because of the political status and human resources of British India, when the British Empire managed the colonies, it generally used South Asians to govern other colonies. Not to mention the other British colonies!

British colonial period in India and Burma. After the occupation of Burma, a large number of Indians were moved into Burma, at that time the Indians not only had an economic advantage, but also occupied stronger political resources, and were opposed to the local Burmese in terms of religion, ethnicity and interests, and hostility and conflict between the two sides were inevitable. Since its independence from colonization, the Burmese government has always been hostile to Indians, such as not allowing them to join the army and suppressing related cultural practices.

Alan Wilson believed that once these Indian National Army prisoners of war fell into the hands of the Burmese, as long as the British civil servants who were working forgot about them, the Burmese would probably make these enemies of the British Empire worse than dead.

When Sir Barron heard this, he asked meaningfully, "Oh? Will it happen so naturally? ”

"Maybe, we can't fully understand many forces in the local area, and once provoked, they may do irrational things." Alan Wilson shrugged and smiled uncertainly.

"Oh, what a surprise that was." Keane, a high-ranking official of the United Province, sighed in understanding, and said with a little contempt and disdain, "This is also a good thing, the whole Indian people breed like cockroaches, even if they can't even eat, the more they have to keep mating, and everywhere they go, there are endless crowds." ”