We are living in the post-pandemic era having fresh memories of evacuation, lockdown, information, and disinformation—overall a situation of panic. At this moment the book under review draws our attention to a similar panic-stricken situation in colonial India in the 1940s during World War II based on public rumor of an imminent Japanese strike that never actualized,
Rewriting History by Revisiting Facts
Pratip Chattopadhyay
THE GREAT FLAP OF 1942: HOW THE RAJ PANICKED OVER A JAPANESE NON-INVASION by By Mukund Padmanabhan Vintage Books, Penguin/Random House, Haryana, 2024, 288 pp., INR 599.00
May 2024, volume 48, No 5