Anuj Dhar Explained

Anuj Dhar
Nationality:Indian

Anuj Dhar is an Indian conspiracy theorist, author and former journalist.[1] [2] He has published several books around the locus of death of Subhas Chandra Bose that propound theories about his living for several years after the purported plane crash,[2] [3] [4] thus contradicting the current consensus.[5] [6] Dhar is also the founder-trustee of a not for profit organisation, Mission Netaji, which campaigns for the declassification of documents concerning Bose.[7]

Claims

Dhar has claimed that Bose had lived in the Uttar Pradesh state of India as Gumnami Baba or Bhagwanji a hermit till 1985.[8] [9] The claims were debunked by the Mukherjee Commission which rejected any linkage between the two, in light of a DNA profiling test.[10] The Commission rejected the plane crash theory and stated that Netaji ‘did not die in the plane crash as alleged’ and that ‘the ashes in the Japanese temple are not of Netaji’.[11] [12] [13] [14] However Indian Government did not accept the findings of the commission.

He also believes that Bose escaped to Russia (then, Soviet Union) after the crash and has accused successive Congress governments of being a part of broader conspiracy to keep Netaji dead. The Mukherjee commission did not locate any relevant material in the KGB archives.[15] In 2005, the Taiwan government provided emails to Dhar that it has no records of a plane crash during the period of 14 August to 25 October 1945, at the old Matsuyama Airport (now Taipei Domestic Airport). These records played a major role in the final assertion of Mukherjee Commission about the implausibility of Bose dying from an air crash.[16] [17] Historian Sugata Bose has rejected the analysis in light of the fact that the region and the airport was under Japanese occupation until 1946 and it was around 1949 when the Taiwaniese government finally consolidated itself.

In the book No Secrets, Dhar states that, according to a newspaper article published by Bose's elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose in The Nation, Bose was in China in October 1949.[18]

Dhar's 2008 book, CIA's Eye on South Asia, compiled declassified Central Intelligence Agency records on India and its neighbours.[19]

Criticism

Netaji biographer Leaonard A. Gordon also penned a critical note on Dhar in a postscript of his book Brothers Against the Raj. There Gordon alleged that Dhar misuses the Subhas Chandra Bose death mystery issue for contemporary Indian political purposes.[20]

In August 18,2019, Dhar shared a fake photo of Subhas Chandra Bose reading news about his own death.[21]

Bibliography

Year Book Publisher ISBN Reference
2005 Back from Dead: Inside the Subhas Bose Mystery Manas Publications [22]
2008 CIA's Eye on South Asia Manas Publications
2012 India's Biggest Cover-up Vitasta Publishing
2013 No Secrets Vitasta Publishing
2019 "Your Prime Minister is dead" Vitasta Publishing
2019Conundrum (along with co-author Chandrachur Ghose)Vitasta Publishing
2021Government Doesn't Want You To Know This (along with co-author Chandrachur Ghose)Vitasta Publishing

See also

References

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ashok . Sowmiya . Holograms . Fifty Two (52) . 2023-03-25 . 2023-06-30.
  2. Web site: Subhas Chandra Bose: The Afterlife of India's Fascist Leader . History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 11 2010 . 7 November 2013 . Hugh Purcell.
  3. News: A Saint with no name. 16 January 2015. 31 January 2015. The Daily Star. The Daily Star.
  4. Web site: Why Subhas Chandra Bose's death is India's 'biggest cover-up'. Kirpal. Raman. 12 July 2012. First Post India.
  5. Gordon. Leonard A.. 2006. Legend and Legacy: Subhas Chandra Bose. India International Centre Quarterly. 33. 1. 103–112. 0376-9771. 23005940.
  6. Book: Lebra, Joyce. The Indian National Army and Japan. 2008. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 978-9812308061. en.
  7. Web site: The Afterlife of India's Fascist Leader: The Intriguing Death of an Indian Holy Man in 1985 Suggested That He Was None Other Than Subhas Chandra Bose, the Revolutionary and Nationalist Who, It Is Officially Claimed, Died in an Air Crash in 1945. the Truth, However, Is Harder to Find. Hugh Purcell. History Today. November 2010 . 18 March 2019. 4 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190404142852/https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-242453005/the-afterlife-of-india-s-fascist-leader-the-intriguing. dead.
  8. Web site: Netaji did not die in aircrash, says web site . . 18 March 2006 . 7 November 2013.
  9. Web site: Netaji did not die in aircrash: web site. www.rediff.com. 2019-03-17.
  10. Book: Bose, Sugata. His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire. 2013-01-21. Penguin Books Limited. 978-8184759327. en.
  11. Web site: Report of The Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry on the alleged disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Volume -I.. The Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry. 123 . 7 November 2005 . 8 May 2022.
  12. Web site: 'Netaji did not die in plane crash'. . 17 May 2006 . 8 May 2022.
  13. Web site: New translation reveal Mukherjee Commission ignored Renkoji temple's nod for DNA test of ashes: Netaji kin . 23 January 2022 . 8 May 2022.
  14. Web site: Efforts made to obtain files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: Government . . 11 February 2022 . 8 May 2022.
  15. Web site: Mukherjee Commission returns sans Netaji documents. Rediff. 2019-03-17.
  16. No crash at Taipei that killed Netaji: Taiwan govt. 3 February 2005. Outlook India. https://web.archive.org/web/20131110130413/http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=277465. 10 November 2013. 7 November 2013. Kolkata.
  17. Web site: Netaji's dead but didn't die in crash, says report; long live the mystery. Indian Express. 18 May 2006.
  18. News: New book seeks to solve Netaji mystery with brother's China claim . . 19 October 2013 . 7 November 2013 . Kolkata.
  19. News: Dhawan, Himanshi . Reveal names of moles in Indira cabinet: CIC to govt . https://web.archive.org/web/20121105042432/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-05-01/india/28185711_1_information-commissioner-annapurna-dixit-america-s-cia-cia-agent . dead . 5 November 2012 . 1 May 2009 . . 7 November 2013.
  20. Book: Leaonard A. Gordon . Brothers Against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalists Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose . Blaft Publications . 392–394 . 2014 . 978-8129136633 .
  21. Web site: 2021-09-27 . Morphed photo shared as picture of Subhash Chandra Bose reading the news of his death . 2024-06-03 . FACTLY . en-US.
  22. News: 'India's biggest cover-up', book on Netaji mystery launched . . 17 November 2012 . 7 November 2013 . Kolkata.
  23. Book: Conundrum Subhas Bose's Life After Death. By Chandrachur Ghose, Anuj Dhar. 29 April 2019 . 9789386473578. 6 May 2022. Ghose. Chandrachur. Dhar. Anuj. Vitasta.
  24. Web site: Remembering Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose through these films on his 125th birth anniversary . 23 January 2022 .
  25. Web site: Faced death threats for Gumnaami, so this National Award is doubly sweet, says Srijit Mukherji .

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