NETAJI

In 1971, the British government declassified a trove of official records covering the final years of the Raj in India. These documents — letters, reports, and meeting minutes exchanged between Viceroy Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, General Sir Claude Auchinleck, provincial governors, intelligence services, and the Secretary of State for India, Lord Pethick-Lawrence in London — reveal the inner workings of an imperial administration making its exit.

Dr. Kalyan Kumar De spent years with these primary sources and produced a work of original historical scholarship grounded entirely in what the British themselves wrote. The picture that emerges from these authentic records is of an empire recalibrating, negotiating, and ultimately deciding to leave — told in the words of the men who made that decision. Netaji's role and India's path to independence are examined through this documentary lens, not through retrospective interpretation.

For readers interested in 20th-century Indian history, this book offers something rare: the British side of the story, unmediated, drawn from the archive.