Women at War – Subhas Chandra Bose and the Rani of Jhansi Regiment
General:
Name: Women at War – Subhas Chandra Bose and the Rani of Jhansi Regiment
Format: epub
Size: 4.19 MB
Book:
Title: Women at War
Author: Vera Hildebrand
Language: English
Year: 2016
Subjects: History
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
ISBN: 1682473155
Total pages: 832 str.
Description:
On 3 July 1943, Subhas Chandra Bose stepped off a Japanese military plane in Singapore, pledged to finally free India from British rule, and created what was perhaps the first female infantry fighting unit in military history, the Rani of Jhansi Regiment (RJR). His young recruits were from Indian families of the diasporas in Singapore, Malaya and Burma, and consisted entirely of civilian volunteers lacking any prior military training. These women soldiers, deployed to the steamy jungles of Burma during the two last years of World War II, were determined to follow their commander to victory and to the liberation of India. More than seven decades later, their history has been forgotten, and their service and the role played by Bose himself unexplored with true rigour. Through in-depth interviews with the surviving Ranis – now in their late seventies and nineties – and meticulous archival research, historian Vera Hildebrand has uncovered extensive new evidence that separates the myth…
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