Lockwood, David <br/><br/>
Calcutta under fire :  the second world war years / 
David Lockwood 
 - India  Rupa Publishers  2019 
 - 294 p. 
<br/><br/> December 1942: Calcutta is bombed by the Japanese air force. In the ensuing panic, one and a half million flee the almost defenseless city. The Japanese, having stormed through Malaya, Singapore and Burma, appear unstoppable—and on their way to India.<br/>David Lockwood investigates the reactions and plans of the Congress, the British and the Indian National Army (INA), concluding that the episode revealed a good deal about plans for India after the war, the impossibility of the INA’s military solution, and that it was a part of the transition of the Indian State from the British to the Congress. Calcutta under Fire, offers a rare insight into a crucial period of contemporary Indian history.   
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789353333287 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World War (1939-1945)<br/>Hegemony<br/>India<br/>Quit India Movement (India : 1942)<br/>Military operations, Aerial--Japanese<br/>Politics and government<br/>Indian National Congress
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.5400 LOC-D