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War (Singapore, 2005), p. 101. He quotes a figure of 300 suicides.

17. Carl Francis de Souza interview, OHD, SNA.

18. Takao Fusayama, Memoir of Takao Fusayama: a Japanese soldier in Malaya and Sumatera (Kuala Lumpur, 1997), pp. 147–50.

19. Nicholas Tarling, Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1950 (Cambridge, 1998), p. 26.

20. Mountbatten to H. R. Hone, 1 February 1944, in A. J. Stockwell (ed.), British documents on the end of empire: Malaya, part I (London, 1995), p. 73.

21. Nicholas J. White, Business, government and the end of empire: Malaya, 1945–1957 (Kuala Lumpur, 1996), pp. 64–5.

22. Paul H. Kratoska, The Japanese occupation of Malaya, 1941–45 (London, 1998), p. 32.

23. M. E. Dening, ‘Review of events in South–East Asia, 1945 to March 1946’, 25 March 1946, in Stockwell, British documents: Malaya, part I, p. 211.

24. Richard J. Aldrich, Intelligence and the war against Japan: Britain, America and the politics of secret service (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 172, 186–7, 330.

25. S. Woodburn Kirby, The war against Japan, vol. V, The surrender of Japan (London, 1969), pp. 77–82.

CHAPTER 1 1945: INTERREGNUM

1. Bengal press adviser’s report for the first half of August 1945, L/P and J/5/142, OIOC.

2. Rajmohan Gandhi, Patel: a life (Ahmedabad, 1990), p. 341.

3. Penderel Moon (ed.), Wavell: the viceroy’s journal (London, 1973), entry for 7 August 1945, p. 162.

4. Bengal press adviser’s report for the second half of August 1945, reporting the Dainik Basumati, L/P and J/5/142, OIOC.

5. Reuter report 18 November 1945, CASB weekly intelligence reports for Burma, f. 211, Clague Papers, Mss Eur E252/55, OIOC.

6. Angelene Naw, Aung San and the struggle for Burmese independence (Copenhagen, 2001).

7. Robert H. Taylor, Marxism and resistance in Burma, 1942–45: Thein Pe Myint’s ‘Wartime Traveler’ (Athens, OH, 1984), introduction; Joseph Silverstein (ed.), The political legacy of Aung San (Ithaca, 1972).

8. Abu Talib Ahmad, The Malay Muslims, Islam and the Rising Sun: 1941–45 (Kuala Lumpur, 2003), pp. 10–11.

9. Firdaus Haji Abdullah, Radical Malay politics: its origins and early development (Petaling Jaya, 1985), p. 67.

10. Mustapha Hussain, Malay nationalism before Umno: the memoirs of Mustapha Hussain, translated by Insun Mustapha and edited by Jomo K. S. (Kuala Lumpur, 2005), p. 313.

11. Cheah Boon Kheng, ‘The Japanese occupation of Malaya, 1941–45: Ibrahim Yaacob and the struggle for Indonesia Raya’, Indonesia, 28 (1979), pp. 85–120.

12. Gandhi, Patel, p. 348.

13. S. A. Das and K. B. Subbaiah, Chalo Delhi! An historical account of the Indian independence movement in East Asia (Kuala Lumpur, 1946), pp. 221–2.

14. Leonard A. Gordon, Brothers against the Raj: a biography of Indian nationalists Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose (New York, 1990), p. 539.

15. SEATIC (Southeast Asian Translation and Interrogation Corps) intelligence bulletin, 17 May 1946, interrogation of Ono Ishire, formerly Hikari Kikan Rangoon, WO203/6312, TNA.

16. Karuppiah N. interview, OHD, SNA.

17. Gandhi to Amrit Kaur, 24 August 1945, Collected works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 81 (Ahmedabad, 1980), p. 161.

18. Karuppiah interview.

19. Joya Chatterji, Bengal divided: Hindu communalism and partition, 1932–1947 (Cambridge, 1994).

20. New Times of Burma, 23 October 1945.

21. Mamoru Shinozaki, Syonan – my story: the Japanese occupation of Singapore (Singapore, 1979), p. 24.

22. David L. Kenley, New culture in a new world: the May Fourth Movement and the Chinese diaspora in Singapore, 1919–1932 (London, 2003), ch. 7.

23. Reynolds News, 10 June 1945.

24. Ibid., 15 April 1945.

25. S. R. Rahman, ‘The new storm over Asia’, ibid., 4 November 1945.

26. Francis Wheen, Tom Driberg: his life and indiscretions (London, 1990), p. 2.

27. Ibid., p. 211.

28. John H. McEnery, Epilogue in Burma, 1945–48: the military dimension of British withdrawal (Tunbridge Wells, 1990), p. 74.

29. Hussain, Malay nationalism before Umno, p. 288.

30. ‘The AJUF in Perak’, WO208/3928, TNA.

31. Innes Tremlett, ‘Memorandum by Head of Malaya Country Section

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