The Bose Deception: Declassified

What exactly is this controversy about Netaji’s ’disappearance’?

Efforts by the authors led to the declassification of more than 1,300 secret files on Bose.

Does new material offer new evidence on Bose’s reported death in 1945?

The Bose Deception: Declassified opens a window to this and much more.

In January 2016, the Government of India began declassifying classified PMO, MEA, MHA and Cabinet Secretariat files related to the mysterious ’disappearance’ of Subhas Chandra Bose at the end of the Second World War. No one could have imagined that even seventy years after Bose’s disappearance, the government had been holding hundreds of files related to him in utmost secrecy.

The official view that Bose died in a plane crash in Taiwan never found public acceptance, leading to multiple inquiries. Claims, counter-claims and conspiracy theories continued to complicate the mystery for nearly seventy-five years, primarily because of keeping information hidden from public view.

In this fascinating investigative work, Dhar and Ghose have rummaged through more than two thousand files declassified in India, and in the UK, USA and Taiwan to unentangle the complex web of a deception plan, that has kept the whole country on tenterhooks for decades. They unravel the plot layer by layer to tell a story that is bound to shock the readers.

Anuj Dhar (Author)
Anuj Dhar is a former journalist, who has worked with leading media organisations like Hindustan Times and NDTV. Books authored by Dhar include CIA’s Eye on South Asia, India’s Biggest Cover-Up and Your Prime Minister is Dead. Dhar co-authored Conundrum: Subhas Bose’s Life After Death. Anuj is one of the founders of Mission Netaji, the pressure group whose relentless campaign led to the declassification of over a thousand secret files relating to Subhas Chandra Bose.

Chandrachur Ghose (Author)
Chandrachur Ghose is an author, columnist and public speaker on history, politics, economics, and environment. He graduated from Visva Bharati (Santiniketan) and the University of Sussex. Chandrachur has co-authored Conundrum: Subhas Bose’s Life After Death and has written the definitive biography of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Bose: The Untold Story of an Inconvenient Nationalist and 1947-57, India: The Birth of a Republic. All his books have featured among national bestsellers in Amazon India. He writes columns for various online portals. Chandrachur is one of the founders of the pressure group Mission Netaji that has been the moving force behind the declassification of thousands of secret documents related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.