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111. ‘Youth Welfare in Singapore, 10 July 1947’, ibid.
112. Gent to Creech Jones, 1 October 1946, CO537/1579, TNA.
113. Gamba, The origins of trade unionism in Malaya, pp. 100–113.
114. ‘Malayan Communist Party policy’, Supplement No. 9 to MSS/PIJ, 31 July 1948; HQ Malaya Command, Weekly Intelligence Review, 2 April 1946, CO537/1581, TNA.
115. Singapore General Labour Union, ‘An account of experiences derived from strikes’, printed in MSS/PIJ, 31 May 1946.
116. MSS/PIJ, September, 1946.
117. Gamba, The origins of trade unionism in Malaya, p. 196; Min Sheng Pau, 5 December 1946.
CHAPTER 7 1947: AT FREEDOM’S GATE
1. Viceroy (Wavell) to Secretary of State, 21 January 1947, ‘INA and Free Burma Army’, L/WS/1/1578, OIOC.
2. Penderel Moon (ed.), Wavell: the viceroy’s journal (London, 1973), entry for 31 December 1946, p. 403.
3. Wavell to Pethick-Lawrence, 1 March 1947, Pethick-Lawrence Papers, Box 5/73, Trinity College, Cambridge.
4. Moon, Wavell, entry for 27 March 1947, p. 433.
5. Mountbatten to Secretary of State, 20 March 1947, L/WS/1/1578, OIOC.
6. Viceroy’s personal report, 1 August 1947, in Nicholas Mansergh (ed.), The transfer of power in India, vol. XII, The Mountbatten viceroyalty: princes, partition and independence, 8 July–15 August 1947 (London, 1983), p. 455.
7. Attlee to Mountbatten, 17 July 1947, ibid., p. 215.
8. Discussion between Jinnah and Mountbatten, 12 July 1947, ibid., p. 122.
9. ‘Report of the Armed Services Nationalisation Committee’ and minutes, papers of Major-General D. A. L. Wade, 8204/797–2, NAM.
10. New Times of Burma, 13 July 1947.
11. Sri Krishna, special correspondent, Delhi, draft article 4 July 1947, papers of Lady Edwina Mountbatten, MB Q4, Southampton University Library.
12. Ayesha Jalal, The state of martial rule: the origins of Pakistan’s political economy of defence (Cambridge, 1990), p. 29.
13. Viceroy’s Personal Report, 1 August 1947, in Mansergh, Transfer of power in India, vol. XII, p. 452.
14. Ibid.
15. Benjamin Zachariah, Nehru (London, 2004), p. 200.
16. Darbar Notes, no. 6, December 1946, L/WS1/1654, OIOC.
17. Personal memorandum by Lt. Gen. R. A. Savory, 4–9 May 1947, ibid.
18. Discussion between Mountbatten and Gandhi, early July 1947, in Mansergh, Transfer of power in India, vol. XII, p. 50.
19. Meeting of Partition Council, 10 July 1947, ibid., p. 51.
20. Fauj Akhbar: Indian Forces Weekly, 3 May 1947, 7403–28, NAM.
21. Note on ‘The Sikhs’ by Lt. Gen. R. A. Savory, endorsed by Auchinleck 29 September 1947, Savory Papers, 7603/93–92, NAM.
22. Jalal, State of martial rule, p. 43.
23. Lt. Col. Siddiq to Lt. Gen. R. A. Savory, 27 August 1947, Savory Papers 7603/93–83, NAM.
24. W. Alston Papers, vol. X, 8005/151–11, NAM.
25. Ibid., entry for 15–16 August 1947.
26. Nehru to Pethick-Lawrence, 20 October 1947, Pethick-Lawrence Papers, Box 5/76, Trinity College, Cambridge.
27. Statesman, 5 May 1947.
28. Statesman, 10 May 1947.
29. Statesman, 1 May 1947.
30. Statesman, 2 May 1947.
31. People’s Age (Bombay), 20 April, 18 May 1947.
32. Statesman, 6 May 1947.
33. John Tyson to his family, 16 January 1947, Tyson Papers, Mss Eur E341/41, OIOC.
34. John Tyson to his family, 2 February 1947, ibid.
35. Joya Chatterji, ‘The fashioning of a frontier: the Radcliffe line and Bengal’s border landscape, 1947–52’, Modern Asian Studies, 33, 1 (1999), pp. 185–243.
36. An excellent brief account of Nagas and Naga nationalism can be found in Julian Jacobs with Alan Macfarlane, Sarah Harrison and Anita Herle, Hill peoples of northeast India, the Nagas: society, culture and the colonial encounter (Stuttgart, 1990), esp. pp. 151–70.
37. Mildred Archer, ‘Journey to Nagaland, an account of six months spent in the Naga Hills in 1947; entry for 23 8 1947’, typescript in Archer private collection cited in Jacobs, The Nagas, ch. 14, n. 24.
38. William Saumarez Smith, ‘Seventy four days in 1947’, p. 27, Mss Eur C409, OIOC; Dash, Bengal Diary,