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Forgotten Wars BY THE SAME AUTHORS Forgotten Armies: Britain’s Asian empire and the war with Japan CHRISTOPHER BAYLY AND TIM HARPER Forgotten Wars The End of Britain’s Asian Empire ALLEN LANE an imprint of PENGUIN BOOKS ALLEN LANE Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Mairangi Bay, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England www.penguin.com First published 2007 1 Copyright © Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, 2007 The moral right of the authors has been asserted All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-0-14-190980-6 Contents List of Illustrations Maps Some Key Characters Preface Prologue: An Unending War 1. 1945: Interregnum The New Asia The last journey of Subhas Chandra Bose Nations without states Three weeks in Malaya The fall of Syonan 2. 1945: The Pains of Victory Burma intransigent India: the key Bengal on the brink The reckoning 3. 1945: A Second Colonial Conquest ‘Black Market Administration’ A world upside down Liberal imperialism and New Democracy ‘Malaya for the Malays, not the Malayans’ 4. 1945: The First Wars of Peace The crescent regained Britain’s forgotten war in Vietnam Britain and the birth of Indonesia Freedom or death in Surabaya 5. 1946: Freedom without Borders The passing of the Malayan Spring Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat British and Indian mutinies Dorman-Smith’s Waterloo A new world order? 6. 1946: One Empire Unravels, Another Is Born The killing begins Britain’s terminal crisis in Burma The burial of the dead Business as usual in Malaya 7. 1947: At Freedom’s Gate The last days of the Raj The crescent fragments: Bengal divided Tragedy in Rangoon Disaster approaches 8. 1947: Malaya on the Brink The crescent fragments: orphans of empire Malaya’s forgotten regiments The strange disappearance of Mr Wright ‘Beware, the danger from the mountain’ A people’s constitution 9. 1948: A Bloody Dawn Boys’ Day in Burma The genesis of communist rebellion A summer of anarchy Karens and Britons India recedes, India reborn 10. 1948: The Malayan Revolution A third world war? The frontier erupts Calls to arms Sten guns and stengahs The road to Batang Kali 11. 1949: The Centre Barely Holds Britain, India and the coming of the Cold War The centre barely holds The battle for the ulu Freedom and revolution The generation of 1950 Epilogue: The End of Britain’s Asian Empire Freedom, slowly and gently Freedom from fear? Flawed memories A flawed inheritance Notes Bibliography Index
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