Occupation Author Name Anuj Dhar | Role Author Education University of Delhi | |
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Books No Secrets, India's Biggest Cover-up | ||
Anuj dhar iitk declassification of files related to netaji s dissapearance day 2
Anuj Dhar is an Indian author and former journalist. Dhar has published several books on the death of Subhas Chandra Bose which (according to official and academic views) occurred on 18 August 1945, when a Japanese plane carrying him crashed in Japanese-occupied Taiwan. Dhar claims in his books that there was no air crash and that Bose actually died in the 1980s after living as hermit monk named "Gumnami Baba Bhagwanji" in Faizabad. Dhar is also the founder-trustee of New Delhi-based not for profit organisation Mission Netaji.
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- Anuj dhar iitk declassification of files related to netaji s dissapearance day 2
- Anuj dhar iitk declassification of files related to netaji s dissapearance day 1
- Gumnami Baba Bhagwanji
- Other claims
- Counter claims
- Criticism
- References
Anuj dhar iitk declassification of files related to netaji s dissapearance day 1
Gumnami Baba Bhagwanji
Dhar and Mission Netaji investigate the claims that Bose lived in the Uttar Pradesh state of India as a hermit till 1985.
Other claims
Reportedly, at his funeral on 18 September 1985, one of the 13 attendants cried out, "…there should have been 13 lakh people here!"
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).
Counter claims
The scholarly view is that Bose died in the air crash and that theories that he did not are incorrect, speculative, mythical, and possibly fabricated However, Mission Netaji claims that Dhar's research will prove that Bose actually escaped to the Soviet Union after the war. Justice Mukherjee Commission which probed the death of Subhas Bose later concurred with Dhar's claim that Bose was not killed in Taiwan, although the Indian government rejected the findings.
In the book No Secrets, Dhar claims 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.
Dhar's 2008 book, CIA's Eye on South Asia, compiled declassified Central Intelligence Agency records on India and its neighbours.
Criticism
Highly regarded Netaji biographer Leaonard A. Gordon also penned a critical note on Dhar in a postscript of his book 'Brothers Against the Raj'. There Gordon pointed to the fact that Dhar misuses the Subhas Bose death mystery issue for contemporary Indian political purposes.