PENALTY TO ROYAL INDIAN NAVY SAILORS IN 1946

Abstract

The Royal Indian Naval Strike, February 1946, marked a new stage in our freedom struggle. It marked the beginning of a period, when Indian service man would join hands more and more with the Indian people for the building of a free and happy India. The Mutiny was the large scale effort of the Indian people for freeing the country of foreign rule, while therefore the foreign rulers could crush it in a comparatively short time, the 1946 uprising was so powerful that could not even dream of such a thing. They therefore had to resort to other maneuvers and stratagems. They could do so because of the basic weakness of the anti-imperialist movement of the period of the Second World War and of the post-war years. They surrendered finally and the British law punished in different manner.