Churchill's Secret War
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Famines in India (1940s)
1944 wheat crop problems
aid denial
aid denial “defense,”
aid offers
animals preying on people/bodies
army needs and
Balkans priority and
blaming India
Britain’s exaggerations on needs
clothing and
cyclone/floods (1942)
death estimates
death estimating
denial of problem by Britain
description/people starving
exporting grain and
food for Britain
food-for-work program
food riots and
Geneva Convention/war crimes and
governor’s residence and
grain statistics
history and
hoarding/suspected hoarding
importing grain and
Italian civilians priority
Japanese Southeast Asia occupation
mercy killings/child abandonment
Middle East/Ceylon priorities
as military problem
price controls and
prostitution and
punishing India and
rice denial policy
scorched earth policy
shipping glut of Britain and
soldiers feeding civilians
sterling debt/resources and
stories from villages
survivors weakness
War Cabinet meeting (Nov., 1943)
warnings
wartime shipping and
wheat policies and
See also Bengal famine (1940s)
Fay, Peter Ward
Fischer, Louis
G Sahib
Gandhi, Abha
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
arrests/fasts
British strategy on
Churchill on
Do or Die instructions
economics and
education and
famine
Harijan newsletter
Hindu-Muslim killings and
Hitler on
Indian National Army and
Jinnah and
killing of
nonviolence movement and
partitioning and
prison release/health problems
surrender instructions
Tamluk National Government violence and
wife’s death
World War II and
See also Indian National Congress; Quit India movement
Gang rapes, Midnapore
about
political outcomes
recanting nonviolence and
Geneva Convention (1949)
Germany/Nazis
John Amery and
offer on Jews
Poland and
See also Hitler, Adolf
Ghora, Basudeb
Gowing, M. M.
Great Depression
Greece
Balkans priority (World War II)
famine
Spartans
World War II and
Greenough, Paul
Gregory, Theodore/Committee report
Grigg, Sir Percy James
aid denial/“defense,”
Churchill and
on Hindus
Viceroy’s Council/Simla talks
Gross, Charles
“Grow More Food” program, Britain
Gupta, Ashoka
Halifax, viscount of (Lord Irwin)
Hammond, R. J.
Hancock, W. K.
Harijan newsletter
Harper, Tim
Harriman, Averell
Harrod, Roy
Hauner, Milan
Hazra, Matongini
Herbert, Sir John
Bengal and
famine and
famine warnings
rice denial policy
Hindu-Muslim disunity
British prejudices and
Churchill and
Indian Army and
Jinnah and
police encouraging
Viceroy’s Council/Simla talks
See also Partitioning India
Hindu-Muslim killings
British views on
Churchill and
criminals and
description
Direct Action Day
Europeans and
fears of
Gandhi and
Muslim League and
See also Partitioning India
Hindus
British prejudices on
See also specific individuals
Hindustan Standard
Hinge of Fate, The (Churchill)
Hitler, Adolf
British/World War II and
Britons/British Empire views
Churchill on
on Gandhi/Indians
on Japan
racism of
Soviet Union/Russia and
suicide
World War II goals
Home Charge
Hopkins, Harry
Hull, Cordell
Hunger strikes
Hungry Bengal
Hunt, Colonel
Hunter, William
Huq, Abul Kasem Fazlul
Hutchings, Robert
Huxley, Aldous
India
1933 nutrition survey
1945 United Nations conference
birth-rate criticism
British capitalism and
during World War II
independence date
postwar importance to Britain
racism towards
railways/effects
scorched earth policy and
See also Famines in India; Partitioning India; specific individuals; specific organizations
India Committee
India League of America
India/World War II
Americans and
Axis powers and
budget
explosion, Bombay dock
independence/division and
role
scorched earth policy
sterling debt of Britain
as unprotected
See also specific individuals; United Kingdom/India; United Kingdom/World War II
Indian Army/World War II
description
fighting Japan
Indian National Army and
inequalities
placements
role questions
Indian Independence League
Indian independence movement
British retaliation (1940s)
British retaliation against women
independence date
pensions for freedom fighters
women joining
women’s conch shells and
See also Indian National Army (INA);
Quit India movement; specific
events; specific individuals;
specific organizations; Tamluk
National Government/
insurgencies
Indian National Army (INA)
Bose and
Britain’s views of
British spy in
in Burma
formation
Gandhi and
hopes for
Indian Army and
treason trial/effects
women’s regiment
Indian National Congress
1935 act/elections
1946 elections
arrests/releases
Cripps offer
Johnson offer
See also Quit India movement; specific individuals
International Red Cross
Ireland famine
Irwin, Lord (viscount of Halifax)
Ispahani, Mirza Ahmad/company
Israel
Iwaichi, Fujiwara
Jana, Gokul
Japan/World War II
British and
Burma and
China and
Hiroshima bombing/surrender
India and
Indian Army and
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Singapore and
Jinnah, Mohammad Ali
Gandhi and
Muslim-Hindu killings
Muslims/Muslim League
National Congress and
partitioning India/Pakistan
Viceroy’s Council/Simla talks
Johnson, Louis
Kalikakundu village
Khan, Kalo
Khan, Khan Abdul Ghaffar
Khan, Niaz Mohammad
Khan, Shah Nawaz
Kiani, Inayat
King, Mackenzie
Kuila, Nirmala/family
Kumaruddin, Sheikh
Lawrence of Arabia
Leathers, Frederick
Churchill relationship
Indian famine/aid denial
Lend Lease program, U.S.
Life expectancy
Britain
India
Lindemann, Frederick Alexander (Prof/Lord Cherwell)
aid denial/“defense,”
background
blaming India
Churchill relationship
death
food reserves (Britain)
India/Bengal famine and
Indian freedom and
prejudices/personality
public opinion and
sterling debt
World War II
Linlithgow, Lady
Linlithgow, Lord
Amery and
Bengal grain exports/imports
Churchill and
dominion status and
famine warnings/aid requests
Gandhi and
Indian freedom and
leaving India
Rutherford’s reports to
sterling debt
Viceroy term end
Lives of a Bengal Lancer (movie)
Llewellin, John J.
Louis, William Roger
Macaulay, Thomas B.
MacDougall, Donald
Mahalanobis, Prasanta C.
Mahapatro, Krishna Chaitanya (Kanu)
Maharatna, Arup
Maity, Bholanath
Maity, Bonkim
Maity, Kanonbala
Maity, Saday/family
Maity, Sindhubala
Maity, Umesh
Majha, Gourhori
Malakar, Giribala/family
Malaria
Malthus, Reverend Thomas Robert
Manu
Martin, Olaf M.
Bengal famine and
registration figures
Mein Kampf (Hitler)
Midnapore
District/Tamluk subdivision
gang rapes and
See also Tamluk National Government/insurgencies
Mitra, Asok
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Mookerjee, Shyama Prasad
Moon, Penderel
Moore, Arthur
Moran, Lord
Churchill and
on Leathers
on Lindemann
Morton, Desmond
Mother India (Mayo)
Mountbatten, Lord Louis
Mudaliar, Sir Ramaswami
Mukhopadhyay, Ajoy Kumar
Mukhopadhyay, Gita/aunt
Mundt, Karl
Muslim League
1937 elections
1943 elections
1946 elections
Bengal ministry
famine and
Jinnah and
partitioning India/Pakistan
World War II and
See also specific individuals
Muslims
British views on
Viceroy’s Council/Simla talks
See also Hindu-Muslim disunity; Hindu-Muslim killings; specific individuals
My Early Life (Churchill)
Naoroji, Dadabhai
Nash, Vaughan
Nawaz, Shah
Nayar, Sushila
Nazimuddin, Sir Khwaja
Nazis. See Germany/Nazis; specific individuals
Nehru, Jawaharlal
arrests/imprisonment
Chinese and
Churchill and
Commonwealth
Gandhi and
National Congress
politics and
World War II/independence
Nichols, Beverley
1984 (Orwell)
Noon, Sir Firoz Khan
Odhikari, Pushpo
Odhikari, Tukibala Das/family
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
Operation Anakim
Operation Overlord
Operation Torch
Orissa famine
Orphanages
Orwell, George
Pakistan. See Partitioning India
Pandit, Vijaylakshmi
Partitioning India
borders
Churchill and
date of
fears of killings
Gandhi and
Jinnah and
Muslim League and
Pakistan
World War II actions and
See also Hindu-Muslim disunity; Hindu-Muslim killings
Patro, Anil Kumar
Patro, Monju
Peddie, James
Phillips, William
famine and
India and World War II
India’s independence
partitioning and
Pinnell, Leonard George
after leaving Bengal
Bengal Denial Policy
Bengal famine and
famine commission and
rice acquisition
Prostitution
Quebec Allies conferences
Quit India movement
about
police/government and
See also Tamluk National Government/insurgencies
Race-thinking
Racism
against Hindus
against India
of Churchill
of Hitler
imperialism and
of Lindemann
race-thinking and
Raha, Nolini
Rahman, Abdul
Raisman, Sir Jeremy
Rani of Jhansi regiment
Reynolds, David
Risley, Herbert
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Churchill/Indian independence and
currency value
death
famine in India and
Gandhi and
Quebec meetings
Stalin and
Yalta conference
See also United States/World War II
Roskill, Stephen
Rothermund, Dietmar
Rubenstein, William D.
Rutherford, Thomas
Sahgal, Prem Kumar
Salt Rebellion/tax
Salter, Lord Arthur
Samanta, Satish Chandra
arrests/imprisonment
Gandhi and
insurgencies
Tamluk National Government
Samanta, Satyabala
Samanta, Subhas
Samonto, Bhawbanibala
Samonto, Bhuvan
Samonto, Chitto Ranjon
background
brother
cyclone and
education
famine stories
fugitive nationalist list
insurgencies
life after independence
on wheat
wife/family
Samonto, Gunodhar
Savrola
Sawrkar, Nitai
Scorched earth policy
Sen, Amartya
Sen, Binay Ra
njan
cyclone relief
rice acquisition
Sengupta, Sukharanjan
Sepoy Mutiny (1857)
Sherwood, Robert E.
Simla talks
Singh, Jagjit J.
Singh, Mohan
Singh, Sinhara
Siraj-ud-daula
Slade, Mira
Slim, William
Smith, Kevin
Snow, C. P.
Sommervell, Brehon B.
South East Asia Command (SEAC)
Special Operations Executive (SOE), Britain
Srivastava, Sir J. P.
Stalin, Joseph
Balkans plan
Churchill and
Teheran conference
Yalta conference
Starvation
cannibalism and
effects description
solid food and
studies on
See also Famines
Statesman, The newspaper, Calcutta
Stephens, Ian
Stone, I. F.
Story of the Malakand Field Force, The (Churchill)
Suez Canal
Suhrawardy, Huseyn Shaheed
famine and
Muslim-Hindu killings and
Muslim League and
Surabuddin, Sheikh
Swaminathan, Lakshmi
Symonds, Richard
Tamluk National Government/insurgencies
assassinations by women
Biplabi newsletter
description
food and
Gandhi on violence
Gandhi’s surrender instructions
Midnapore/Tamluk insurgencies (1942)
Midnapore/Tamluk insurgencies (1943)
police and
See also specific individuals
Tamluk subdivision/Midnapore District
Tamralipta
Taxes
distress gold
Great Depression and
Salt Rebellion
watchmen (police informers) and
Taylor, A.J.P.
Teheran conference
Time magazine
Tojo Hideki
United Kingdom/India
1935 act
birth-rate in India
criminals released/effects
sterling debt
textiles and
See also Famines in India; specific individuals
United Kingdom/World War II
Balkans plan
Balkans priority
declarations of war
Hitler/Germany and
Italian civilians priority
Middle East/Ceylon priorities
shipping glut and
shipping routes
sterling debt/India’s resources
Turkey and
U.S. aid and
See also Famines in India (1940s); India/ World War II; specific individuals
United Kingdom/World War II food supplies
beer/brewers and
contingency stocks
exaggerations on needs
nutrition for Britons
postwar concerns
price controls/rations
statistics on
working/distributional stocks
United Nations
1945 conference/India
Atlantic Charter
colonies postwar