<!--QuoteBegin-ben_ami+Apr 23 2006, 07:16 AM-->QUOTE(ben_ami @ Apr 23 2006, 07:16 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->yeah thats obvious.
if japan hadnet bombed pearl harbour and germany hadnt engaged russia in her quest for liebenstraum (or some such, meaning land) then the whole outcoume of things would have been different.
then again, back home, if not for the clown gandhi ji and his fawning chamchas, lots of things could be different, both just before and just after independence.
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Japan had defeated the russians in 1906, which was the first time an asiatic power had decisively defeated the colonials in the modern era. During WW1, the Indians who had fought in the european theatre had found out that the colonials had the potential to self-implode and were far from invincible. What you are advocating with your japan-germany-Bose theory is that India was consciously starting (although late) on the path to an active Meiji-type response in Savarkar and Bose, rather than the passive genuflection of a Gandhi or the maoist-cultural-revolution-type wasteland of a Nehru..
if japan hadnet bombed pearl harbour and germany hadnt engaged russia in her quest for liebenstraum (or some such, meaning land) then the whole outcoume of things would have been different.
then again, back home, if not for the clown gandhi ji and his fawning chamchas, lots of things could be different, both just before and just after independence.
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Japan had defeated the russians in 1906, which was the first time an asiatic power had decisively defeated the colonials in the modern era. During WW1, the Indians who had fought in the european theatre had found out that the colonials had the potential to self-implode and were far from invincible. What you are advocating with your japan-germany-Bose theory is that India was consciously starting (although late) on the path to an active Meiji-type response in Savarkar and Bose, rather than the passive genuflection of a Gandhi or the maoist-cultural-revolution-type wasteland of a Nehru..