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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Indian National Army

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Who were the Subhas Chandra Bose's soldiers, and what motivated them to fight alongside the Japanese, and where does their story sit in the history of the War? Jim and Al talk to Oyeshi Ganguly, Shriya Dasgupta and Sudarshan Pujari from the Agnijug Archive project who have been researching this end of Empire story. A Goalhanger Films Production Produced by Vasco Andrade Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod Website: wehavewayspod.com Members’ Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We've mentioned Subba's Chandra Bose a few times, I would say, and I think it's fair

0:20.2

to say that we haven't always been entirely complimentary of his contribution towards the

0:23.8

second level, but here we've got three young, I'm going to say historians, they are political

0:29.6

scientists, they've studied MAs in international relations, they're historians, they're journalists,

0:36.7

but they're three, I'm going to just say for convenience sake, and I hope Ishi Shreya

0:41.2

and Sudarsha and you're not going to feel offended though, there's three young pioneering

0:45.4

Indian historians, oral historians, I should say, because they've set up the Ogni

0:49.8

drug archive, and it's fascinating, and Ishiya, you're in Berlin, but Sudarsha and Shreya,

0:55.2

you're talking to us from Kolkata, that fabulous city, I've been there several times and

1:00.4

a number of times, and absolutely love it, you've recently been out there.

1:03.6

Yeah, which was amazing, an extraordinary experience, yeah, yeah, incredible place to visit.

1:08.2

And I've been to Berlin too?

1:09.6

Yes, well, we've been to Berlin a few times, yeah.

1:13.5

But anyway, you are all very welcome, and we've got much to talk about, so we should

1:16.6

get on with it.

1:17.6

Yeah, Sudarsha and we met at a thing in Oxford, where I was talking about my book Command,

1:23.0

and you sort of collared me and said, I've been doing this project, talking to Indian

1:27.8

revolutionaries of people who joined Subash Chandra Bose's army, so tell us the story of how

1:34.7

you came to this project and what you've done and what you've discovered.

1:39.4

So basically the project is an initiative of Ishiya and Shreya, so they were the ones

1:45.4

who for the past one year have been working and reaching out to people, and in fact, I

1:50.2

would allow them to give the more thicker description.

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