DID NETA JI HAVE HIS PERSONAL SECRETARY FROM KASHMIR ?

   

                                        

    DID NETA JI  SUBASH CHANDRA BOSE  HAVE  HIS  PERSONAL SECRETARY FROM  KASHMIR ?

Two Kashmiri Pandits from Zadoo family of Kashmir were associated with Neta Ji Subash Chandra Bose and later INA. I have read three references that one amongst them named  Kanti Chandra Zadoo was engaged by Neta Ji as his personal secretary sometime in 1945.He is believed to have been on board the same air craft which mysteriously crashed in 1945 near  Taihoku, Japanese Taiwan, resulting in the death of Subhash Chandra Bose and Kanti Chandra . Beyond the three  or four references, no research has been done on this aspect at any point of time.

                                         

     ( Left to Right... Dina Nath Zadoo and Kanti Chandra Zadoo) 

Both the Kashmiris were real brothers and sons of Prof. Jagddhar Zadoo of Kashmir. Dina Nath Zadoo, brother of Kanti Chandra Zadoo  served as the Captain in the Indian National Army (INA). He fought at Malaysia and  died in 1986 in India.

WHO IS PROF. JAGDDHAR ZADOO ?

It may be pertinent to mention that Pandit Keshav Bhat Zadoo  ,  Prof Jagddhar Zadoo’s grandfather was the Royal Astrologer of Maharaja Ranbir Singh .Pandit Keshav Bhat Zadoo was a Sanskrit scholar and was frequently consulted by George Buhler for his work on the Paippalada Shakha of Atharvaveda. Some scholars say that the Paippalada manuscript of the Atharvaveda  in Sharda had many drawbacks . A   more  accurate and detailed  Oriya manuscript (written on  palm leaves ) translated into English is now available in India, Europe and USA. It is possibly in four volumes. Dipak Battacharya is the author/ translator of this new set of books on Paippalada Manuscript of the Atharvaveda.

Prof Jagddhar Zadoo taught Sanskrit at Prince of Wales College Jammu , S. P. College Srinagar and the Government College for Women, Srinagar ( 1951-1953)..In1924, he brought out the first critical edition of the Nilmata Purana working jointly with Prof. R.K. Kanjilal, He also translated  into English  Kshemendra’s  Loka Prakasha . He translated some portions of the Gilgit Manuscripts  discovered in 1931 and also worked with Russian and Japanese scholars . Prof . Jagddhar Zadoo was a polyglot who also co edited and assisted in the translation of many more manuscripts / books. He died in 1981.

The Zadoo family from Kashmir has always been daring and nationalistic in their outlook  .Krishna Misri ( Zadoo ) , who got herself enrolled as a volunteer in the women’s wing of' National Militia' set up by the supporters of the National Conference to fight the Invading tribal raiders during 1947, belongs to this Zadoo family. Her father , Shri  Vasudev Zadoo was an eminent civil engineer of Kashmir . This resistance group was also known as Women’s Self Defence Corps (WSDC) . She must have been a young girl of 13 or 14 years at the time of the tribal raid in Kashmir . Prof .Krishna Misri's  real brother,Pushkar Zadoo was also martyred in 1947.

( Avtar Mota)

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