15th August: Independence or Dominion? | Prof Kapil Kumar |

"The Azad Hind Sarkar of United India was the only Government in the world that did not surrender to the Allied forces. The struggle must continue and the last orders were ‘we disband to regroup again’. By end of 1945, it was clear to the British that they have to reach an agreement and leave India. Mountbatten was assigned the specific task to make Congress agree to partition, but he achieved something more than that. The “Tired” Congress decision-makers forgot complete independence and on tables, the partition and dominion status was agreed upon, not independence. This is what I explain based on records."

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Prof. Kapil Kumar, is a senior fellow at the Nehru Museum & Library (NMML), New Delhi. He is also the Chief Historian of 4 Museums at the Red Fort & Former Director, Centre for Freedom Struggle & Diaspora Studies, IGNOU.
He has been engaged in studying the role of Netaji and INA in India’s freedom struggle from 1945-1947 (or after his disappearance)
in the past years, he has uncovered almost 40,000 papers from the national archives that had been conveniently brushed under the carpet.
Above all, he is a “determined nationalist” dedicated to unearthing the suppressed realities of Hindustani History.

Findout more about Prof. Kapil Kumar on his website, ProfKapilKumar.com
or
https://www.profkapilkumar.com/

SUB-TOPICS
0:00 Gist of the talk
2:15 the misleading song- an insult to the revolutionaries
5:21 How Nehru was made the president of the Congress,
5:44 all documents destroyed, except Kriplani’s account
6:30 Miscellaneous papers contained the information
7:06 April 1946, Netaji’s name rejected on the grounds that he is not an old member of the Congress. Jaiprakash Narayan’s name rejected because it had not been sent as a delegate by the Bihar Congress
10:30 Various revolutionary organizations like the INA sprung up in different cities
14:47 Documentary evidence of dominion, not independence
18:26 Mountbatten the First Governor General
25:00 Consequences of the compromise (dominion status)
27:00 Agreeing for the partition overlooking the genocide
31:13 The awardees
37:11 Nehru sent to Soviet Union by the British
40:04 Japanese had occupied Andaman. Had to secede because of Netaji
46:19 Indian Empire (even after 1947)
49:54 Nehru sought King’s permission for everything.
50:00 Challenges in independent research.
54:53 People’s revolution, grasscutters in Bihar,
56:49 Habib-ur-Rahman, Shah Nawaz Khan
59:38 Shahnawaz report
1:00:37 Shahnawaz remained loyal to the IJ
1:01:25 Sahai Report flaws—Gumnami Baba
1:06:40 INA gold transferred to Nehru’s personal account
1:13:31 The role of Hindu Mahasabha
1:21:00 The chapati movement, and the role of chowkidars
1:25:40 Lahore was a part of India in the first map of India

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