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The Indian National Army (INA) or Azad Hind Fauj (Hindi: आज़ाद हिन्द फ़ौज) was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II.

IMHO these people joined the fascists and were turn coats - and then they turned their guns on their former comrades. After the war - they should have been court-martialed and the ring leaders hung.
 
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Three famous officers of INA red fort trial.


Shahnawaz Khan (1914 – 1983) was an Indian soldier who is remembered as an officer who served in the Second Indian National Army during World War II and later came to be one of the three defendants in the first of the INA trials in 1946. Born in the village of Matore, Kahuta, Rawalpindi District, British India, (now Pakistan) Khan initially volunteered to join the British Indian Army in 1940, in the opening stages of the war in Asia. He saw action in the Battle of Singapore before being taken prisoner after the surrender of the city. Although initially reluctant to join the INA under Mohan Singh, Shah Nawaz Khan joined the second INA after the arrival of Subhash Chandra Bose in South-East Asia. He later led the INA forces that participated in the Japanese offensive at Imphal and Kohima, and subsequently rose to be the commander of the second division. Khan also saw action against allied forces in the latter's second Burma Campaign, and surrendered to British troops in Burma. In November 1946, Khan, along with G.B.S. Dhillon and P.K. Sehgal faced trial and was convicted for charges of treason at the Red Fort in Delhi, but intense public support and overwhelming nationalist sympathies forced General Auchinleck to discharge Khan and his co-defendants with forfeiture of pay. In Independent India, Khan joined the Indian National Congress and came to be a minister for state in Nehru's First Cabinet. Hailing from the Janjua Rajput clan of Matore. He has an adopted daughter who happens to be Shah Rukh Khan's mother.


Colonel Prem Kumar Sahgal (25 March 1917- 17 October 1992) was an officer of the Indian National Army of Subhas Chandra Bose which fought against the British imperial rule in undivided India.
Sehgal was a Captain in the 2/10th Baluch Regiment of the British Indian Army and fought against Japanese forces in Malaya serving with distinction before being made a Prisoner of War in 1942.[1] He then joined the Indian National Army of Subhas Chandra Bose to fight against the British, and as the commander of the 2nd Division led the 2nd Infantry regiment at Popa against Messervy's 17th Indian Division during the latter half of the Burma Campaign before surrendering.
Sehgal was later tried at Red Fort along with three other fellow-officers for treason, a trial that became famous all over India in 1946. Colonel Prem Kumar Sahgal married Lakshmi Sahgal in March 1947 in Lahore. Their daughter Subhashini Ali is a leader of the All India Democratic Women's Association, politically affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
According to his daughter Subhashini Ali, Sehgal was an atheist

Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon (March 18, 1914 - February 6, 2006), popularly known as Col. G.S. Dhillon, was an officer in the Indian National Army who was charged with "waging war against His Majesty the King Emperor". Along with Gen. Shah Nawaz Khan and Col. Prem Kumar Sahgal, he was tried by the British at the end of World War II in the INA trials that began on November 5, 1945 at Red Fort. Dhillon also played an important role in the Indian independence negotiations.
 
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India is not wedded to the crown that someone can just prosecute Its INA leaders.If British could not do so in famous red fort trial when they were in power in india..then just forget about prosecuting any of INA leaders now.
 
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Rafi said:
was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II.

Exactly! Indian Nationalists! Not British, not American not 'allies' or 'axis' but Indian Nationalists

Not like the pro British Punjabi Muslims.
 
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India is not wedded to the crown that someone can just prosecute Its INA leaders.If British could not do so in famous red fort trial when they were in power in india..then just forget about prosecuting any of INA leaders now.

I mean at the time, that they should have been prosecuted

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Exactly! Indian Nationalists! Not British, not American not 'allies' or 'axis' but Indian Nationalists

Not like the pro British Punjabi Muslims.

Even indians who were in the army in WW2 think they are traitors.
 
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The Indian National Army (INA) or Azad Hind Fauj (Hindi: आज़ाद हिन्द फ़ौज) was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II.

IMHO these people joined the fascists and were turn coats - and then they turned their guns on their former comrades. After the war - they should have been court-martialed and the ring leaders hung.

@Rafi:-
Do you exactly know what was Azad Hind Fauj?
Do you heard the name Subhash Chandra Bose?
Just google it.
They were the soldiers who fought for the independence of India during WW-2.Their sole aim was to free India from British rule by any means possible.
They were fighting against British.Obviously they had to take assistance from Japanese and Germans.
They were not at all fascists.
Don't comment on false basis or on your thinking.
 
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@Rafi:-
Do you exactly know what was Azad Hind Fauj?
Do you heard the name Subhash Chandra Bose?
Just google it.
They were the soldiers who fought for the independence of India during WW-2.Their sole aim was to free India from British rule by any means possible.
They were fighting against British.Obviously they had to take assistance from Japanese and Germans.
They were not at all fascists.
Don't comment on false basis or on your thinking.

The British Army at the time was a volunteer army, once they swore allegiance to British Crown - they were technically traitors - when they broke their promise to serve.
 
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Arrey bhai, no point in arguing. Whole of Pakistan was pro British, Muslim league didn't take part in Quite India movement. Not one of the Muslim league leaders were prosecuted.

In fact the creation of Pakistan is regarded by some as a gift to the unwavering loyalty of the Punjabi Muslims to the British Crown. (Pakistani's think they got their freedom from 'Hindu' India)

So yeah we're proud of the INA, you call 'em traitors, we call them patriots
 
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The British Army at the time was a volunteer army, once they swore allegiance to British Crown - they were technically traitors - when they broke their promise to serve.

Give me a simple answer.
What would you have done if you were there?The situation is like this.
You were fighting for the British against Japanese and Indian National Army men which are to for the freedom of your country.You may die in this conflict.
Now you change your side and join Indian National Army which are trying for the freedom of your country.You may die in this conflict against British.
Which death you would prefer in preventing soldiers who are trying for freedom or death occurred during fighting to free your country against British?
 
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Give me a simple answer.
What would you have done if you were there?The situation is like this.
You were fighting for the British against Japanese and Indian National Army men which are to for the freedom of your country.You may die in this conflict.
Now you change your side and join Indian National Army which are trying for the freedom of your country.You may die in this conflict against British.
Which death you would prefer in preventing soldiers who are trying for freedom or death occurred during fighting to free your country against British?

Dude, if their intention was to fight the Brits - then they should have not joined up, they were NOT conscripted. So they were in the wrong IMHO.:no:
 
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I mean at the time, that they should have been prosecuted

seems you forgot about the famous red fort trial of INA officers Nehru- Jinnah went on to fight that case.Still looking for that famous historic picture that i saw in teen murti bhavan (official residence of nehru).


meanwhile....

YouTube - (1/5) Timewatch The Forgotten Volunteers World War II

YouTube - (2/5) Timewatch The Forgotten Volunteers World War II

YouTube - (3/5) Timewatch The Forgotten Volunteers World War II

YouTube - (4/5) Timewatch The Forgotten Volunteers World War II

YouTube - (5/5) Timewatch The Forgotten Volunteers World War II
 
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^^^
At that time Japs provided them modern weapons and ammunition.As Japanese were fighting against British,it was a good decision.
We have a pro-verb in my mother-tongue:
Our enemy's enemy can be our best mate.(as we share a same purpose.)
 
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seems you forgot about the famous red fort trial of INA officers Nehru- Jinnah went on to fight that case.Still looking for that famous historic picture that i saw in teen murti bhavan (official residence of nehru).


meanwhile....

YouTube - (1/5) Timewatch The Forgotten Volunteers World War II

YouTube - (2/5) Timewatch The Forgotten Volunteers World War II

YouTube - (3/5) Timewatch The Forgotten Volunteers World War II

YouTube - (4/5) Timewatch The Forgotten Volunteers World War II

YouTube - (5/5) Timewatch The Forgotten Volunteers World War II

The underlying fact remains that the (British) Indian Army while being a volunteer army was also a colonial army.
The INA soldiers were in fact tried by court-martial in the Red Fort. A defence team of lawyers was set-up and the defence was organised and financed by both the Muslim League and Congress. Among the team of defence lawyers were Bhulabhai Desai, Asaf Ali, Jawaharlal Nehru, all prominent barristers of that time.
The defendants were convicted and cashiered.
Ultimately, the then C-in-C; Field Marshal Claude Auchinlech commuted the sentences of the first three defendants.

Later there were other mutinies, most notably the RIN mutiny of 1946. And then the curtain fell when the British left.

About the Indian veterans of WW 2's British Army depicted in the documentaries; two points. They were fighting for the British Govt. and from the footage shown, all of them seem to be British residents/citizens.
 
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They werent fighting for facism, they were fighting for azaadi in their own way. Its very well known that the British treated Indian soldiers as nothing more than cannon fodder. Who would want to fight for such masters, hence the rebellion.
 
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HAIDER said:
Somewhere near Malaysia and Indonesia ...British General lost 13,000 Indian men in few days. Indian life is so cheap.

Actually the bulk of the World War II armies (muslim) was composed of Punjabi Muslims

On the eve of World War II almost 34,000 Punjabi Muslims were in the army (29 per cent) and during World War-II over 380,000 joined (about 14% of the total). No other class came close to these figures

Almost 70 per cent of the wartime recruitment was from what became Pakistan had been from the undivided Punjab, 19.5 per cent from NWFP, 2.2 per cent from Sindh, and 0.06 per cent from Baluchistan.


On the other hand the sympathies of the All India Muslim League were clearly on the side of the Allies as against the Axis powers.2 Mr. Jinnah had even said that if Britain lost, the Muslims were likely to suffer

Amery, Secretary of State for India in a confidential press briefing emphasized the fact that Òto a large extent IndiaÕs fighting war effort was dependent on Muslim effortÓ4. Churchill emphasized that the British Òmust not on any account break with the Muslims who represented a hundred million people and represented the main army elements on which the British must rely for the immediate fightingÓ5
The Role of Muslims Martial Races of Todays Pakistan in British-Indian Army in World War-II*
 
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