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This was one of the best kept secrets in Indian history till date, thanks to the Nehruvian historiographers. Mahatma Gandhi brand of Non-cooperation movement and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose brand of armed struggle — which one had made the most paramount impact on the British to leave India?

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Historical records clearly point to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. The year was Remember Royal Indian Navy Mutiny? From the initial flashpoint in Bombay, the revolt spread to Karachi, Calcutta, Cochin and Vishakhapatnam. As many as 20, sailors of the Royal Indian Navy — in 78 ships and 20 shore establishments — had joined the mutiny.

The brave sailors had demonstrated to the British that instead of serving their masters they would rise in the defence of their motherland.

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They brought down the Union Jack on their ships and hoisted the Indian Tricolour. This set alarm bells ringing from Delhi to London. General Claude Auchinleck — then Commander-in-Chief of British Indian forces — in a confidential note, dated September 5, , to British government wrote:. It is the one disciplined force in which communal interests are subordinated to duty, and on it depends the stability of the country.

The steadiness of the RIN and the RIAF is of lesser import but any general disaffection in them is likely seriously to affect the reliability of the Army. The report was declassified in the s. There has seldom been a matter which has attracted so much Indian public interest and, it is safe to say, sympathy… the threat to the security of the Indian Army is one which it would be unwise to ignore.