Book review: Women at War: Subhas Chandra Bose and the Rani of Jhansi regiment
WOMEN AT WAR SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE AND THE RANI OF JHANSI REGIMENT Vera Hildebrand HarperCollins 321 pages; Rs 499 The Indian National Army (INA) retains a certain mystique within the Indian independence movement, partly because of its misguided heroism but mostly because of the adventurous life and times of its commander, Subhas Chandra Bose, and his controversial death in an air crash in 1945 at age 48. Lurking in the background with an almost ghostly presence was the INA’s remarkable all-female infantry unit, the Rani of Jhansi (RJR) regiment. The RJR ...
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