Churchill's Secret War (56 page)

My Early Life
(Churchill)

Naoroji, Dadabhai

Nash, Vaughan

Nawaz, Shah

Nayar, Sushila

Nazimuddin, Sir Khwaja

Nazis.
See
Germany/Nazis;
specific individuals

Nehru, Jawaharlal

arrests/imprisonment

Chinese and

Churchill and

Commonwealth

Gandhi and

National Congress

politics and

World War II/independence

Nichols, Beverley

1984
(Orwell)

Noon, Sir Firoz Khan

Odhikari, Pushpo

Odhikari, Tukibala Das/family

On the Origin of Species
(Darwin)

Operation Anakim

Operation Overlord

Operation Torch

Orissa famine

Orphanages

Orwell, George

Pakistan.
See
Partitioning India

Pandit, Vijaylakshmi

Partitioning India

borders

Churchill and

date of

fears of killings

Gandhi and

Jinnah and

Muslim League and

Pakistan

World War II actions and

See also
Hindu-Muslim disunity; Hindu-Muslim killings

Patro, Anil Kumar

Patro, Monju

Peddie, James

Phillips, William

famine and

India and World War II

India’s independence

partitioning and

Pinnell, Leonard George

after leaving Bengal

Bengal Denial Policy

Bengal famine and

famine commission and

rice acquisition

Prostitution

Quebec Allies conferences

Quit India movement

about

police/government and

See also
Tamluk National Government/insurgencies

Race-thinking

Racism

against Hindus

against India

of Churchill

of Hitler

imperialism and

of Lindemann

race-thinking and

Raha, Nolini

Rahman, Abdul

Raisman, Sir Jeremy

Rani of Jhansi regiment

Reynolds, David

Risley, Herbert

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Elliott

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Churchill/Indian independence and

currency value

death

famine in India and

Gandhi and

Quebec meetings

Stalin and

Yalta conference

See also
United States/World War II

Roskill, Stephen

Rothermund, Dietmar

Rubenstein, William D.

Rutherford, Thomas

Sahgal, Prem Kumar

Salt Rebellion/tax

Salter, Lord Arthur

Samanta, Satish Chandra

arrests/imprisonment

Gandhi and

insurgencies

Tamluk National Government

Samanta, Satyabala

Samanta, Subhas

Samonto, Bhawbanibala

Samonto, Bhuvan

Samonto, Chitto Ranjon

background

brother

cyclone and

education

famine stories

fugitive nationalist list

insurgencies

life after independence

on wheat

wife/family

Samonto, Gunodhar

Savrola

Sawrkar, Nitai

Scorched earth policy

Sen, Amartya

Sen, Binay Ranjan

cyclone relief

rice acquisition

Sengupta, Sukharanjan

Sepoy Mutiny (1857)

Sherwood, Robert E.

Simla talks

Singh, Jagjit J.

Singh, Mohan

Singh, Sinhara

Siraj-ud-daula

Slade, Mira

Slim, William

Smith, Kevin

Snow, C. P.

Sommervell, Brehon B.

South East Asia Command (SEAC)

Special Operations Executive (SOE), Britain

Srivastava, Sir J. P.

Stalin, Joseph

Balkans plan

Churchill and

Teheran conference

Yalta conference

Starvation

cannibalism and

effects description

solid food and

studies on

See also
Famines

Statesman, The
newspaper, Calcutta

Stephens, Ian

Stone, I. F.

Story of the Malakand Field Force, The
(Churchill)

Suez Canal

Suhrawardy, Huseyn Shaheed

famine and

Muslim-Hindu killings and

Muslim League and

Surabuddin, Sheikh

Swaminathan, Lakshmi

Symonds, Richard

Tamluk National Government/insurgencies

assassinations by women

Biplabi
newsletter

description

food and

Gandhi on violence

Gandhi’s surrender instructions

Midnapore/Tamluk insurgencies (1942)

Midnapore/Tamluk insurgencies (1943)

police and

Tamluk subdivision/Midnapore District

Tamralipta

Taxes

distress gold

Great Depression and

Salt Rebellion

watchmen (police informers) and

Taylor, A.J.P.

Teheran conference

Time
magazine

Tojo Hideki

United Kingdom/India

1935 act

birth-rate in India

criminals released/effects

sterling debt

textiles and

See also
Famines in India;
specific individuals

United Kingdom/World War II

Balkans plan

Balkans priority

declarations of war

Hitler/Germany and

Italian civilians priority

Middle East/Ceylon priorities

shipping glut and

shipping routes

sterling debt/India’s resources

Turkey and

U.S. aid and

See also
Famines in India (1940s); India/ World War II;
specific individuals

United Kingdom/World War II food supplies

beer/brewers and

contingency stocks

exaggerations on needs

nutrition for Britons

postwar concerns

price controls/rations

statistics on

working/distributional stocks

United Nations

1945 conference/India

Atlantic Charter

colonies postwar

postwar peace

Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)

United States/World War II

British Empire and

British food/shipping requirements and

Lend Lease program

Pacific islands

Pearl Harbor bombing

rationing

shipping/ship production

UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration)

Untouchables

Venkataramani, M. S.

Verdict on India
(Nichols)

Viceroy’s Council, Wavell

Wavell, Archibald

Amery and

background

becoming Viceroy

Churchill and

famine

famine inquiry

famine relief

Gandhi and

Hindu-Muslim killings and

Hindus vs. Muslims views

Indian Army and

Indian independence and

Indian resources use

partitioning and

Simla talks

Viceroy’s Council

on World War II

Weizmann, Chaim

Wiesel, Elie

Willingdon, Lord

Willkie, Wendell

Wilson, Horace Hayman

Wilson, Thomas

defending aid denial

famine aid and

India’s resources and

petrol bill

sterling debt and

Wolf, Eric

Women’s issues

child marriages

prostitution during famine

rape/family rejection

venereal disease

See also
Gang rapes, Midnapore

Women’s regiment (INA)

Wood, E.

Wood, Sir Kingsley

Woolton, Lord

World War I

Muslims and

United Kingdom debt

United Kingdom food supplies

World War II

history of

See also specific countries
;
specific individuals

Yalta conference

Zamindars description

Zetland, marquess of

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Mukerjee, Madhusree.

Churchill’s secret war : the British empire and the ravaging
of India during World War II / by Madhusree Mukerjee.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.

eISBN : 978-0-465-02260-1

1. India—History—20th century. 2. Great Britain—Foreign relations—India. 3. India—
Foreign relations—Great Britain. 4. Famines—India—Bengal. 5. Churchill, Winston,
1874–1965. 6. Great Britain—Colonies—History—20th century. 7. World War, 1939–
1945—Influence. I. Title.
DS480.45.M794 2010
954.03’59—dc22
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