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35. Francis Wheen, Tom Driberg: his life and indiscretions (London, 1990), p. 216.

36. Driberg, Ruling passions, p. 216.

37. Reynolds News, 14 October 1945.

38. Extract from a letter from Tom Driberg, SEAC to Dorman-Smith, 4 October 1945, Dorman-Smith Papers, Mss Eur E215/28, OIOC.

39. A/C Allen, A. G., 346 Wing, SEAF, to Driberg, 19 December 1945, Tom Driberg Papers, S3, 5 (miscellaneous), Christ Church, Oxford.

40. Col. John Ralston, 2 Area Singapore, to Driberg, 25 November 1945, Tom Driberg Papers, S3, 1, 25, Christ Church, Oxford.

41. Kyin Hla to Driberg, 28 September 1945, Tom Driberg Papers S3, 1, 16, Christ Church, Oxford.

42. See Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Forgotten armies: Britain’s Asian empire and the war with Japan (London, 2004).

43. Montagu Stopford to Mountbatten, 26 December 1945, Mountbatten Papers (microfilm), 8, OIOC.

44. Letter of Aung San in Rangoon Liberator, 5 October 1945, Governor of Burma’s Papers, M/3/1694, OIOC.

45. Rangoon Liberator, 27 October 1945, ibid.

46. Naw, Aung San, pp. 142–9.

47. Ibid, p. 143.

48. See, e.g., ‘Karen memorial’, memorandum presented by H. N. C. Stevenson and T. L. Hughes, February 1946, FO643/39, TNA, printed in Tinker, Burma, vol. I, pp. 650–1.

49. San C. Po, Burma and the Karens (London, 1929).

50. Jonathan Falla, True love and Bartholemew: rebels on the Burmese border (Cambridge, 1991), p. 25.

51. Callahan, Making enemies, pp. 86–113.

52. Peter Clarke, The Cripps version: the life of Sir Stafford Cripps (London, 2002).

53. Lady Pethick-Lawrence to Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 5 September 1945, Pethick-Lawrence Papers, Box 5/83, Trinity College, Cambridge.

54. Krishna Menon to Pethick-Lawrence, 31 March 1954, ibid., 5/91.

55. Pethick-Lawrence to Huxley, 29 November 1943, ibid., 5/61.

56. Nehru to Cripps, 3 December 1945, ibid., 5/64.

57. Gandhi to Pethick-Lawrence, 12 January 1946, ibid., 5/66.

58. Intelligence report quoting soldiers’ letters, no. 172, 16 February 1945, appendix A, L/WS/1/1433, OIOC.

59. Personal communication from Eric Stokes, 1979.

60. Provincial officers and Intelligence Bureau conference on INA, 19–20 November 1945, L/WS/1/1577, OIOC.

61. Appended to above, ibid.

62. Statesman, 5 October 1945.

63. W. L. Alston ‘My day and age’: this was a compilation of memoirs and contemporary letters etc., 8005–151, box 10, National Army Museum.

64. Note from Deputy Director of Military Intelligence (S), f. 112, L/WS/1/1577, OIOC.

65. Conference of provincial officers, ibid.

66. Amrita Bazaar Patrika, 2 November 1945.

67. Statesman, 23 July 1947.

68. Governor of Bengal to viceroy, 22 August 1946, ‘Calcutta riots 1947’, L/P and J/8/655, OIOC.

69. Amrita Bazaar Patrika, 24 October 1945.

70. Amrita Bazaar Patrika, 3 November 1945.

71. Amrita Bazaar Patrika, 22 November 1945.

72. Amrita Bazaar Patrika, 2 November 1945.

73. Amrita Bazaar Patrika, 6 November 1945.

74. Amrita Bazaar Patrika, 27 October 1945.

75. S. N. Arseculeratne, Sinhalese immigrants in Malaysia and Singapore, 1860–1990: history through recollections (Colombo, 1991), p. 337.

76. ‘INA in Siam’, WO203/2462, TNA.

77. Attachments to WO203/4673, TNA.

78. Girishchandra Kotari interview, OHD, SNA; Arseculeratne, Sinhalese immigrants, p. 338.

79. Memo, 15 October 1945, WO203/4203B, TNA.

80. Penderel Moon (ed.), Wavell: the viceroy’s journal (London, 1973), statement of the governor of North West Frontier Province, entry 24 November 1945, p. 188.

81. Ibid., entry 5 November 1945, p. 182.

82. V. S. Kulkarni and K. S. N. Munshi, The First Indian National Army trial (Poonah, 1946), p. i.

83. Ibid., pp. xv–xviii.

84. Ibid., p. 58.

85. Ibid. p. 47.

86. Conference of provincial officers, L/WS/1/1577, OIOC.

87. For instance, Sir Dalip Singh, K. N. Katju and J. N. Sapru; Kulkarni and Munshi, First Indian National Army trial, p. 171.

88. Moon, Wavell, p. 191.

89. D. K. Palit, Major General A. A. Rudra: his services in three armies and two world wars (Delhi, 1997), pp. 282, 284.

90. Wavell to Pethick-Lawrence, 17 October 1945, CAB119/191, TNA; Cabinet Defence