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Battle of Kohima (1944)

On the Indian independence map as “Kohima — the war at India’s door”

Apr–Jun 1944 — The Japanese Fifteenth Army, with Bose’s Indian National Army beside it, is broken at Kohima and Imphal by the largely Indian Fourteenth Army. The battle decides that India’s future will be settled by politics, not conquest.

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Battle site
Chapter
Quit India and the Bengal famine (chapter 11 of Indian independence)
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Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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Map showing Battle of Kohima (1944), battle site in Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
BATTLE SITE · INDIAN INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION, 1857–1964

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