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The Trial That Shook Britain: How a court-martial led to India's freedom

The tactical contradictions that doomed earlier revolutionary movements found their dramatic resolution in Bose's audacious gamble with the INA Amritesh Mukherjee Mumbai Listen to This Article The Trial that Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence By Ashis Ray Published by Routledge India 176 pages ₹1,295 Time moves differently in certain moments of history. In early 1945, the future seemed to stretch endlessly before British India. As the empire celebrated victory over fascism abroad, it continued to imprison freedom fighters at home. Bloodied but victorious, it seemed as permanent as the monsoons. Complete independence — purna swaraj —remained exactly what it had always been: Tomorrow's promise, next year's possibility, next decade's dream. What happened in the next few months, then, that Indian freedom would