ABSTRACT
When the wartime activities of the Indian Independence Movement in Southeast Asia are mentioned, several locations immediately come to mind: Malaya, where F Kikan leader Major Fujiwara Iwa'ichi began the process of forming the Indian National Army (INA) in the early weeks of the war; Singapore, where Subhas Chandra Bose assumed the movement's leadership in 1943 after arriving by submarine from Germany; and Burma, site of the ill-fated Imphal Campaign of 1944, the failure of which ended Bose's dream of inciting an uprising against the British in India. Many important events in the movement's history, however, took place in Thailand, or involved Indian residents from there. This paper examines the wartime situation of the Indian community in Thailand, its participation in the independence movement, and the Thai response.
