by Harper, Tim
Index
Abdul Rashid, 231–3
Abdul Razak bin Hussein, xvii, 530
Abdul Wahad, Haji, 361, 500
Abdullah Che Dat, 196–7, 419, 512
Abdullah Sani bin Raja Kechil, see Ahmad Boestamam
Abu Hanifah, 172, 182, 325
Acland, Major-General Sir John, 455
African soldiers, 254–5, 522–3
Ah Chin, 507
Ah Har, 507
Aishah Ghani, 509
Alatewa Sayadaw, 60–61
Alexander, A. V., 242
Ali, Asaf, 80, 90
al-Ihya Asshariff, 359–60, 417–18
Alimin, 204, 419
Allan, Sheila, 5, 54–5
Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), 217–18
Allison, John, 427
All-Malayan Council of Joint Action (AMCJA), 363–71
Alor Star (Alor Setar), 129, 134
Alston, W. L., 79, 291, 292
Amery, Leopold, xvii, 65, 140, 234, 237
Amir Muhammad, 553–4
amusement parks, 5, 116–17, 123, 128, 414, 472, 479, 523
Anderson, Patrick, 505, 506
Ang Bin Hoay (Brotherhood of the Ang People), 45, 107, 414, 415
Ang Keong Lan, 108
Angkatan Pemuda Insaf (API – Generation of Aware Youth), 195, 212, 213, 216, 278, 351, 353, 354–6, 357–8, 361, 406
Angkatan Sasterawan 50 (Generation of 1950), 510
Angkatan Wanita Sedar (AWAS – Generation of Aware Women), 195–6, 354, 361, 419, 509
Anti-British League, 507–8
Anti-Enemy Backing-Up Societies, 24
Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League (AFPFL), 64–6, 68, 70, 71, 72–3, 224, 233, 255, 257, 258–9, 260, 261, 263, 267, 302, 305–6, 307, 310, 315, 316, 323, 382, 386
split with communists, 263–4, 302, 378, 379
Appleton, George, 233
Arakan, 23–4, 253, 293, 300, 312, 389, 403
Archer, Mildred, 298
Armed Forces Nationalisation Committee (India), 287
Asian Relations Conference, 324–6, 354
Assam, 4, 86, 293, 297–8
Association of British Malaya, 100
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 325–6
Atlantic Charter, 97, 100, 168, 190
atomic bombs, xxvii, 1–4, 15–16, 60, 190, 457–8, 540–41
Attlee, Clement Richard, xvii, 76, 90–91, 95–6, 111, 171, 174, 234, 237, 256
and Burma, 235–6, 237, 260, 265, 268, 302, 304, 306, 317, 459, 460
and India, 76, 240, 286
and Malaya, 216, 426, 436, 497, 498
Attwood, Arthur, 219
Auchinleck, General Sir Claude, xvii, 79, 90, 231, 242, 284, 285–6, 290
Aung Gyi, 400
Aung San, xvii, 16, 17, 60, 64–5, 67, 68–70, 71–2, 73, 223–4, 225, 227–36, 237, 257–8, 262–5, 266–7, 268, 540
accused of murder, 91, 229–33
and 1946 labour unrest, 254, 259–61, 262
and London negotiations, 262–3, 264–5, 267–8, 302–8
and minorities, 305, 307–10, 312, 375, 391
assassination, 233, 313–20, 372, 388
political beliefs, 68–9, 266, 307–8
Aung San Suu Kyi, 233, 320
Australian Communist Party, 415
Australians, 3, 54, 139, 256, 400, 437, 522
and Indonesia, 167, 191–2, 208, 437
Awang bin Hassan, 211
Azad Hind (Free India) government, 20, 21, 87, 89–90, 124
Ba Maw, xvii, 17, 67, 73, 224–5, 227, 252, 317
Ba Thein, 385
Ba Thun, Oliver, 393
Ba U, U, 66
Bachtiar Effendi, 116, 511
Badhwar, Hari, 80
Bah Pelankan, 493
Bahadur Shah Zafar, Mughal Emperor, 88
Baker, Nona, 36
Bakri, Imam Haji, 44
Balan, R. G., 343, 424, 430
Ballas, Jacob, 328
Bandung, 168, 173, 186
Bandung Afro-Asia Conference, 326, 540, 549–50
banishment, 207–8, 341, 355, 433, 449, 482–3, 484–5, 489
Banjarese, in Malaya, 42, 44, 359–60
Bao Dai emperor, 142, 143
Bartlett, Vernon, 275–6
Batang Kali, 449–56
Battle of Midway, 11
Battle of Surabaya, 180–81, 183
Batu Arang colliery, 122, 339, 421, 445, 448
Batu Caves massacre, 34–5, 126, 349, 514
Batu Gajah jail, 92, 126
Batu Pahat, 211, 212, 216
Bedong, 338
Bekasi, 182
Bengal Club, 223, 248
Bengal, 81–6, 242–52
famine, 81, 89, 244
partition, 286–7, 292–301
Bengali language, 85
Berkeley, Hubert, 495–6
Bhonsle, 22
Bhowani Junction, 329
Bingley, Mr, 319, 320
Binh Xuyen, 144, 148
Blades, A. G., 126
Blake, Christopher, 495–6
‘Blueprint for Burma’, 68
Boestamam, Ahmad, xvii, 135–6, 195, 203, 352–6, 357–8, 367, 369, 419, 433, 434, 510, 531, 551
Bombay, 138
Borneo, 160, 278–9, 394
Bose, Sarat, 82, 222–3, 240, 245, 252–3, 284, 293–4
Bose, Subhas Chandra, xviii, 19, 21–3, 57, 58, 59, 78, 79, 80, 82, 87, 88, 124, 195, 227, 329–30
death, 21–3, 83–4, 540
Bottomley, Arthur, 309, 310
Boucher, Major-General Charles, 406, 442, 477–8
Boulle, Pierre, 334, 335, 336, 543, 544
Bourne, Geoffrey Major-General, 380–81, 393
Boven Digul, 161, 191
Bowker, James, 386, 394, 399, 458
Braddell, Sir Roland, 274, 361, 502
Brayford, D. C., 219
Brazier, John, 124, 207, 281–2, 339–40, 482, 509
Bridge too far, A, 138
Briggs, General Sir Harold, 266, 319, 525
Britain, 26–7, 239, 457–8
British army, 26, 139, 217–22, 239, 254, 266, 311
4th Hussars, 473
and Bengal killings, 248, 249, 251, 252
and Malayan Emergency, 436–7, 444, 448–56, 470–73, 477–9, 521–3, 551–2
Army Education Corps, 26, 218, 225
Devonshire Regiment, 436
Grenadier Guards, 470
in Indonesia, 169, 171–2, 177–81, 182, 188–9, 218
King’s Own Yorkshire light rifles, 436
leftists in, 26, 185, 190, 218, 224
Malayan Scouts (SAS Regiment), 521–2
mutinies, 26, 70, 217–20
national servicemen, 470–72, 521
Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI), 109, 110, 111, 112, 470
overstretched, 239, 256–7, 437
Parachute Regiment, 219–20
Royal Armoured Corps, 522
Royal Army Medical Corps, 220
Royal Artillery, 436
Royal Enniskillen Fusiliers, 138
Royal Marine Commandos, 456, 522
Scots Guards, 450–56, 521
Seaforth Highlanders, 169, 187, 436
British Council, 319, 320
British Empire, in Asia, xxvii–xxviii, 8, 10–11, 12–13, 48, 95–100, 137–8, 140–41, 170–71, 188, 241, 252, 380, 402, 409, 458, 498, 516–17, 519–20
British firms in Burma, 67, 224, 305, 306, 322, 375, 377–8, 384, 387, 398
in Indonesia, 159
British government, 27, 95–6
and Burma, 65–6, 230, 236, 260, 264–5, 266, 304–7, 308, 317, 320–21, 380, 382–3, 387, 393, 395, 398–9, 458–60, 466–7
and India, 76–7, 95–8, 230, 242–3, 244, 259, 285, 304
and Malaya, 124, 130, 209–10, 215–16, 281, 362, 367–8, 416, 426–7, 435–6, 441–2, 452–4, 496, 497–9, 523–4, 530
Broa
dhurst, Major Douglas, 37
Brooke, Vyner, 278
Broome, Richard, 30–31, 206, 442–3, 492
‘Browderism’, 238
Brown, George, 450
Bucher, General Roy, 249, 373, 403–4
Buddha Mahamuni, 402
Buddhism, 60–61, 143, 310, 315, 321, 372, 376–7, 542–3
Buddhist monks, 60–61, 257, 269, 310, 321, 374, 465
Bung Tomo, 176, 179, 181, 188, 417
Burgess, Anthony, 340, 438, 505
Burhanuddin al-Helmy, Dr, xviii, 196, 353, 359, 364, 366, 418, 508, 531
Burma, 4, 11–12, 16–17, 60–75, 91, 223–39, 252–68, 289, 301–23, 372–401, 402–3, 458–60, 463–70, 535–8, 540–43, 548–9
and minorities, 16, 23–4, 74–5, 253, 265, 301–2, 304–5, 306, 307–10, 312, 322–3, 375, 381, 389, 391–8, 400–401, 458–9, 464–70, 517, 536
and the Commonwealth, 263, 302, 306–7, 317, 466
British services mission, 321, 322, 380, 381–3, 389, 398, 400, 459
communist uprising, 385–7, 389–90, 391, 398, 399, 537
ethnic conflict in, 74–5, 81, 231–2, 393, 401
independence, 65, 66–7, 73, 262, 306, 323, 372–3, 401
India’s ‘poor relation’, 75–6, 230, 253–4, 259–60, 261–2, 267, 301–2, 303–4, 307
interim government, 307, 312
military coups, 537–8
nationalization policies, 305, 322, 375, 377–8, 379–80, 384, 460, 549
White Paper on, 65, 72, 73, 223–4, 236, 259–60, 266
Burma army, 64, 75, 235, 257, 312, 314, 380–84, 389, 470, 537–8
Burma Rifles, 384, 389
minorities in, 75, 380–81, 391, 392, 393, 398, 401, 562 n. 4
Burma Independence Army (BIA), 16, 20, 61, 74, 231–2, 562 n. 4
Burma National Army (BNA), 16–17, 61, 64, 68, 72, 74, 79, 91, 234, 235, 257, 265, 562 n. 4
Burmah Oil, 305, 380, 395
Burma–Thailand Railway, 2, 53, 102, 105, 233, 269, 336, 541–2
Burmese Communist Party, 238, 316, 318, 537
Burrows, Sir Frederick, 244–5, 248–9, 299
Caine, Sir Sydney, 504
Calcutta, 81–2, 84–5, 138, 221, 222–3, 292, 293, 295–6, 299, 300, 405
Great Killing, 243–9
Calcutta Youth Conference, 415
Calvert, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Michael, 521, 522
Cambridge University, 78, 199, 200, 524, 530
Camp Columbia, 167, 169–70
Campbell, Alexander, 396–7
Cao Dai, 144, 147
Cariappa, General Kodandera, 405
Casement, Roger, 58
casualties, 2, 7, 173, 186, 188
civilian, 128, 168–9, 173, 207, 234–5, 417
from ethnic violence, 210, 222, 244, 246–7, 248–51, 292, 295, 299–301
in Malayan Emergency, 437, 440–41, 445, 447, 449–56, 473, 493–4, 512, 521, 525, 552
in Surabaya, 177, 178, 180–81
Japanese, 2, 173, 541
on Burma–Thailand Railway, 269
Cathay Building, 110
Cedile, Colonel Jean, 144, 148
census and registration, 99, 332–3, 441, 447–8, 507
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 46, 457, 539
Chairil Anwar, 162–3, 184, 510
Chang Hong, see Lai Teck Chang Hong (Batang Kali witness), 454
Chang Meng Ching, 349
Changi jail, 2, 53–4, 111, 126
Chapman, Freddy Spencer, 30, 31, 32, 492
Chen Chin-chu, 485
Chen Tian, 345, 534
Cheng, Homer, 131
Cheong Chee, 488, 489
Chettiyars, 71, 156, 359, 374, 486 see also moneylenders Chettur, S. K., 91, 92, 103, 105, 124, 276–7, 337, 338
Chew, Benjamin, 110
Chiang Kai Shek, xviii, 141, 144, 145, 205, 240, 411, 462, 474
children, 1, 336–7, 421, 484–5
Chin Kee Onn, 115–16
Chin Peng, xviii, 35–6, 37–9, 40, 45, 52, 64, 128, 129, 192, 196, 199, 203–4, 273, 443, 552–4, 599 n. 59