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'''Anuj Dhar''' is an Indian author and former journalist.<ref name=HistToday>{{cite web | url=http://www.historytoday.com/hugh-purcell/subhas-chandra-bose-afterlife-india%E2%80%99s-fascist-leader | title=Subhas Chandra Bose: The Afterlife of India's Fascist Leader | publisher=[[History Today]], Volume: 60 Issue: 11 2010 | accessdate=7 November 2013 | author=Hugh Purcell}}</ref> He has published several books around the locus of [[death of Subhas Chandra Bose]] that propounds theories about his' living for several years after the purported plane crash,<ref name=HistToday/><ref name="A Saint with no name">{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/a-saint-with-no-name-60158|title=A Saint with no name|date=16 January 2015|accessdate=31 January 2015|newspaper=The Daily Star|agency=The Daily Star}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstpost.com/india/why-subhas-chandra-boses-death-is-indias-biggest-cover-up-375766.html|title=Why Subhas Chandra Bose's death is India's 'biggest cover-up'|last=Kirpal|first=Raman|date=12 July 2012|publisher=First Post India}}</ref> thus contradicting the current consensus.<ref>{{citation|last=Bandyopādhyāẏa|first=Śekhara|title=From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0oVra0ulQ3QC|year=2004|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-2596-2|accessdate=21 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last1=Bayly|first1=Christopher|title=Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0M4Pl_VCExgC|year=2007|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-02153-2|accessdate=21 September 2013|last2=Harper|first2=Timothy|authorlink1=Christopher Alan Bayly}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Bose|first=Sugata|title=His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g-pfHRAD03AC|year=2011|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-04754-9|accessdate=22 September 2013|authorlink=Sugata Bose}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last1=Metcalf|first1=Barbara D.|title=A Concise History of Modern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mjIfqyY7jlsC|year=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-02649-0|accessdate=21 September 2013|last2=Metcalf|first2=Thomas R.|authorlink1=Thomas R. Metcalf|authorlink2=Barbara D. Metcalf}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Wolpert|first=Stanley|title=Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zuoMsBWCTBUC|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-539394-1|accessdate=21 September 2013|authorlink=Stanley Wolpert}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gordon|first=Leonard A.|date=2006|title=Legend and Legacy: Subhas Chandra Bose|journal=India International Centre Quarterly|volume=33|issue=1|pages=103–112|issn=0376-9771|jstor=23005940}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BhgRuCapxGEC|title=The Indian National Army and Japan|last=Lebra|first=Joyce|date=2008|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=9789812308061|language=en}}</ref> Dhar is also the founder-trustee of a [[not for profit]] organisation, [[Mission Netaji]], which campaigns for the declassification of documents concerning Bose.<ref>Hugh Purcell, "The Afterlife of India's Fascist Leader: The Intriguing Death of an Indian Holy Man in 1985 Suggested That He Was None Other Than Subhas Chandra Bose, the Revolutionary and Nationalist Who, It Is Officially Claimed, Died in an Air Crash in 1945. the Truth, However, Is Harder to Find," ''History Today'', November 2010, {{cite web| url = http://www.questia.com/read/1G1-242453005/the-afterlife-of-india-s-fascist-leader-the-intriguing| title = Questia}} {{dead link|date=July 2021}}</ref><br />
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==Claims==<br />
Dhar has claimed that Bose had lived in the [[Uttar Pradesh]] state of India as [[Gumnami|Gumnami Baba]] or [[Bhagwanji]] a hermit till 1985.<ref name=rediff>{{cite web | url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/mar/17spec.htm | title=Netaji did not die in aircrash, says web site | work=[[Rediff.com]] | date=18 March 2006 | accessdate=7 November 2013}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2006/mar/17spec.htm|title=Netaji did not die in aircrash: web site|website=www.rediff.com|access-date=2019-03-17}}</ref> The claims were debunked by the [[Mukherjee Commission]] which rejected any linkage between the two, in light of a [[DNA profiling|DNA profiling test]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eYctAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT375|title=His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire|last=Bose|first=Sugata|date=2013-01-21|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=9788184759327|language=en}}</ref><br />
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He also believes that Bose escaped to Russia (then, Soviet Union) after the crash and has accused successive Congress governments of being a part of broader conspiracy to keep Netaji dead.<ref name=":1" /> The Mukherjee commission did not locate any relevant material in the KGB archives.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2005/oct/06bose.htm|title=Mukherjee Commission returns sans Netaji documents|website=Rediff|access-date=2019-03-17}}</ref><br />
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In 2005, the [[Taiwan]] government provided emails to Dhar that it has no records of a plane crash during the period of 14 August to 25 October 1945, at the old Matsuyama Airport (now [[Taipei Domestic Airport]]). These records played a major role in the final assertion of Mukherjee Commission about the implausibility of Bose dying from an air crash.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=277465|title=No crash at Taipei that killed Netaji: Taiwan govt|date=3 February 2005|magazine=[[Outlook India]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110130413/http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=277465|archive-date=10 November 2013|accessdate=7 November 2013|place=Kolkata}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/netaji-s-dead-but-didn-t-die-in-crash-says-report--long-live-the-mystery----------------/4671/|title=Netaji's dead but didn't die in crash, says report; long live the mystery|work=Indian Express|date=18 May 2006}}</ref> Historian [[Sugata Bose]] has rejected the analysis in light of the fact that the region and the airport was under Japanese occupation until 1946 and it was around 1949 when the Taiwaniese government finally consolidated itself.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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In the book ''No Secrets'', Dhar states that, according to a newspaper article published by Bose's elder brother [[Sarat Chandra Bose]] in ''The Nation'', Bose was in China in October 1949.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/new-book-seeks-to-solve-netaji-mystery-with-brother-s-china-claim/1184461/0 | title=New book seeks to solve Netaji mystery with brother's China claim | newspaper=[[Indian Express]] | date=19 October 2013 | accessdate=7 November 2013 |place=Kolkata}}</ref><br />
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Dhar's 2008 book, ''CIA's Eye on South Asia'', compiled declassified [[Central Intelligence Agency]] records on India and its neighbours.<ref name="Dhawan, Himanshi">{{cite news|author= Dhawan, Himanshi |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-05-01/india/28185711_1_information-commissioner-annapurna-dixit-america-s-cia-cia-agent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105042432/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-05-01/india/28185711_1_information-commissioner-annapurna-dixit-america-s-cia-cia-agent |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 November 2012 |title=Reveal names of moles in Indira cabinet: CIC to govt |date=1 May 2009 |newspaper= [[The Times of India]] |accessdate=7 November 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Criticism==<br />
Netaji biographer Leaonard A. Gordon also penned a critical note on Dhar in a postscript of his book ''Brothers Against the Raj''. There Gordon alleged that Dhar misuses the Subhas Chandra Bose death mystery issue for contemporary Indian political purposes.<ref>{{cite book | author=Leaonard A. Gordon | title= Brothers Against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalists Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose | publisher = Blaft Publications |pages=392–394 | year = 2014 |isbn=978-8129136633 |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=8129136635}}</ref><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
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! Year !! Book !! Publisher !! ISBN !! Reference<br />
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| 2005 || ''Back from Dead: Inside the Subhas Bose Mystery'' || Manas Publications || {{ISBN|81-7049-237-8}} || <ref name=EconomicTimes>{{cite news | url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-11-17/news/35170866_1_netaji-mystery-anuj-dhar-air-crash | title='India's biggest cover-up', book on Netaji mystery launched | newspaper=[[The Economic Times]] | date=17 November 2012 | accessdate=7 November 2013 |place=Kolkata}}</ref><br />
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| 2008 || ''CIA's Eye on South Asia'' || Manas Publications || {{ISBN|978-81-7049-346-4}}|| <ref name="Dhawan, Himanshi"/><br />
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| 2012 || ''India's Biggest Cover-up'' || Vitasta Publishing || {{ISBN|978-93-80828-69-5}} || <ref name=EconomicTimes/><br />
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| 2013 || ''No Secrets'' || Vitasta Publishing || {{ISBN|978-93-82711-05-6}}<br />
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|2019 ||"Your Prime Minister is dead" || Vitasta Publishing || {{ISBN|978-9386473356}}<br />
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|2019<br />
|Conundrum (along with co-author Chandrachur Ghose)<br />
|Vitasta Publishing<br />
|{{ISBN|978-9386473578}}<br />
|-<br />
|2021<br />
|Government Doesn't Want You To Know This (along with co-author Chandrachur Ghose)<br />
|Vitasta Publishing<br />
|{{ISBN|8194964059}}<br />
|}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Bose: Dead/Alive]], 2017 miniseries based on Anuj Dhar's book ''India's Biggest Cover-up''<br />
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