Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during Word War II

01 October, 2010

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Madhusree Mukerjee

Tranquebar Press,

352 Pages, Rs 495

Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century, but parts of his record have gone unexamined. At the same time that he opposed the Nazis, a series of Churchill’s decisions between 1940 and 1944 directly and inevitably led to the deaths of some three million Indians in eastern India. This book places this tragedy against the larger context of WWII, India’s fight for freedom and Churchill’s legacy.