Talk:India in World War II

message: I think this article needs to be greatly expanded. Especially the section "Army of India Involvement". There simply isn't enough detail there. (Lord Vader 17:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why did India participate 

message: I changed that section name from "Collaboration with Axis powers" from "Collaboration with Axis Powers for independence",because they helped for for freedom.Ovsek (talk) 13:49, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: that doesn't quite work -- the Bose people were often expatriates who did not intend to live in India anyway. Rjensen (talk) 21:39, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The POW's had the choice of dying in Japan's horrible POW camps or joining the Bose army, along with thousands of people who had never lived in India. Who says they fought for India's Freedom??? Rjensen (talk) 08:40, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: *  — Bose said it --Tito Dutta  (talk • contributions • email) 11:32, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

text: Indeed Bose said it-- he said it to Hitler and Tojo as well. He perhaps was unaware of how Hitler and Tojo handled freedom in their puppet states like Italy and China & Philippines? The issue is what the soldiers thought and they were either a) escaping horrible POW camps; or b) were permanent residents of places like Malaya but were enlisted because they were of Indian ancestry. Rjensen (talk) 11:38, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: *  — Yes Doctor Jensen, ans since you are a researcher and scholar yourself, it requires no citation! But, Bose formed INA/AZF to fight against British for India's freedom, not to help people escape PoW camps! Here is a news report of November 1945. It is defamatory to say people like Mohan Singh (general), Lakshmi Sahgal, Prem Sahgal, Ram Singh Thakur joined INA to escape PoW camps and not to fight for India's freedom! --Tito Dutta  (talk • contributions • email) 12:04, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

text: the problem here is that Ovsek is speculating using his personal  POV  about unknown motivations-- the article however must be based on reliable secondary sources which he ignores. As for the speculation he might ponder how a person facing the horrors and deaths in a Japanese POW camp might respond.  Note that the Indian POWs in those camps had not been drafted into the (British) forces--they all volunteered from their villages in India. Rjensen (talk) 21:27, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: what is the evidence from RS that the poor POW's believed in Bose's dreams? Seems they were trying to get freedom for themselves--they faced death and horrid conditions in Japanese POW camps otherwise. It seems that 95% of the volunteers joined the British rather than the Bose forces  Rjensen (talk) 08:47, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change 

message: Where is it?Ovsek (talk) 14:21, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: good point. I added a section. Rjensen (talk) 08:41, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: "The Muslim League rejected the Quit India movement and worked closely with the Raj authorities. They were regarded very poorly in India, as they did nothing": I don't understand the referent of "they": the members of the Muslim League, the Raj authorities, or someone else?  I skimmed the reference at the end of the paragraph, but wasn't enlightened; if there's a reference to someone being regarded poorly in India, I didn't notice it.Mcswell (talk) 04:37, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quit India Movement 

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message: The location in question was British-India and the various kingdoms which were near to British-India. It was not India or even Pakistan or Bangladesh. 
These kinds of low-class writings are all over the Wikipedia India pages. Academicians in India have nothing much to do, other than to write all these kinds of silly articles.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:D10E:7C45:1835:B00C:9222:5FB5 (talk) 10:49, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Before 1947 there was only the Indian Army, with British and Indian officers and manned by Indians. There is no source anywhere which refers to any such entity as the British Indian Army dating from that time. That name was invented by Wikipedians to avoid the confusion but is a complete POV anachronism.Vinay84 (talk) 16:02, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nonsense heading