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Forgotten Forced Migrants Of War: Civilian Internment Of Japanese In British India, 1941-6, Christine De Matos, Rowena Ward
Forgotten Forced Migrants Of War: Civilian Internment Of Japanese In British India, 1941-6, Christine De Matos, Rowena Ward
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The Second World War saw extraordinary movements of people, before, during and afterwards. Civilian internees are rarely considered part of this, and especially not those in South and Southeast Asia. Between December 1941 and May 1946, nearly 2700 Japanese civilians and colonial subjects from across Japan’s empire were interned in camps in British India. Mainly residents of Singapore and Malaya, these civilians were arrested and transferred by ship and train to India, where they were interned for all or part of the war. Their first ‘temporary’ camp was in Purana Qila, the Old Fort in New Delhi, from where some …