"But now our authorities is altering all that,

the INA remained dedicated to the defence of Burma and was a part of the Japanese defensive deployments. The Second Division was tasked with the defence of Irrawaddy and the adjoining areas round Nangyu, and provided opposition to Messervy's 7th Indian Division when it attempted to cross the river at Pagan and Nyangyu throughout Irrawaddy operations. Later, in the course of the Battles of Meiktila and Mandalay, the forces beneath Prem Sahgal had been tasked with defending the realm around Mount Popa from the British seventeenth Division, which would have exposed the flank of Heitarō Kimura's forces trying to retake Meiktila and Nyangyu.

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"But now our authorities is altering all that," he said while addressing an event at the historic Red Fort to mark the 75th anniversary of the proclamation of the 'Azad Hind Sarkar' by Bose. In November 1945, the primary of the trials against the captured troopers of Bose’s Indian National Army was publicly held. [newline]This led to the first encounter between British-Indian and INA troops in Arakan in Burma in January-February 1944. Three battalions of five companies every, called the “Bose Brigade,” fought alongside the Japanese. During the encounter, INA soldiers reportedly used "trickery and civilian disguise" to overpower British Indian sentries and aided the Japanese in capturing a divisional headquarters. The 1st Infantry Regiment drew many civilian volunteers from Burma and Malaya and was geared up with the biggest share of the heavy armament that the INA possessed.

The majority of desertions occurred much later, in accordance with Fay, across the battles at Irrawaddy and later round Popa. Fay specifically discusses Slim's portrayal of the INA, stating what he concludes to be inconsistencies in Slim's accounts. Fay additionally discusses memoirs of Shah Nawaz, the place Khan claims INA troops were by no means defeated in battle. He concludes the opinions held by Commonwealth war veterans such as Slim were an inaccurate portrayal of the unit, as had been these of INA soldiers themselves. Harkirat Singh notes that British officers' personal dislike for Subhas Chandra Bose could have prejudiced their judgement of the INA itself.