ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on the Battle of Imphal and on Manipur's experience of the Second World War. Far too little has been written about Imphal 1944, and even less so exclusively; the Manipur part of the story is for all practical purposes unknown. The relative lack of attention towards this encounter between the British Fourteenth Army and Japanese Fifteenth Army is a little surprising. The Jap has attained his secondary objectives of cutting the rd Imphal-Kohima and at least for a time, the track Silchar-Bishenpur. A crucial variable that would have come into play in the event of a Japanese victory at Imphal would have been the Indian National Army (INA). More of the thousands of INA soldiers in Burma could then have been assembled at Imphal, including the women's Rani Jhansi Regiment.
