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In the Lal Qila at ten o’ clock on that day, a court-martial, or military trial, began. Three men, Indians all, stood accused. Their crime? The rather serious one of treason, which the Indian Penal Code of the day framed as waging war against the British King, who was also at this time Emperor of India. What’s more, the three men had all been officers of the British-Indian Army, which was to many British minds the ultimate safeguard—when push came to shove—of their rule over the Indian vastness and its many brown people. The three Indian Commissioned Officers (ICOs), Captain Shah Nawaz Khan and Lieutenant Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon of the 1st battalion, 14th Punjab Regiment, and Captain Prem Kumar Sahgal (pronounced “Prame Kumaar Saygull”), of the 2nd battalion, 10th Baluch Regiment, knowingly deserted the British-Indian Army to join the Indian National Army (INA), where they became senior battlefield commanders.https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/trial-at-the-red-fort-1945-1946-the-indian-national-army-and-the-end-of-the-british-raj-in-india/
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The Raj officials had disastrously misperceived the reaction of Indians, and especially of Indian Army jawans, to the first INA trial. The Royal Indian Navy mutiny of February 1946, which involved 20,000 men, did not help matters either. These events made the Raj realize that it could no longer count on the steadfast loyalty of its Indian armed forces to prop-up its position in the India it had ruled for so long. Whatever some historians may contend with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, what mattered in those vital moments of uncertainty was how the British perceived the situation.
It is worth remembering the words of Clement Attlee, the British Prime Minister at the time of Indian independence in 1947, who remarked in 1956 that the INA, and not Gandhi’s various civil disobedience campaigns, was the decisive factor forcing the British pullout.
