INDIA: Jai Hind!

India's smoldering nationalism burst into sudden flame.

In Calcutta a column of students paraded in protest against the treason trials of Indian National Army men. Organized under Japanese supervision by the late

Subhas Chandra Bose, the I.N.A. in British eyes is quisling, in Indian eyes basically patriotic.

Police charged the paraders. Shots rang out. From all corners of Calcutta reinforcements, Hindu and Moslem, flocked to the student side. For three days demonstrators stormed through the city.

Angry crowds gathered in Dalhousie Square, shouted "Jai Hind!" ("Victory to India"), the battle cry of India's nationalists. They lay across railway tracks to stop trains, persuaded...

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