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Youth leader, patriot, colonial Britain’s bête noire, technocrat, linguist, adviser to the Indian Diplomatic Mission in Tokyo, and later a successful business entrepreneur, the life of Indian independence activist Ayyappanpillai Madhavan Nair defies categorization. Shedding new light on the leadership of the Indian Independence League and the Indian National Army under Rash Behari Bose and Subhas Chandra Bose, A. M. Nair offers a compelling eyewitness account that challenges conventional narratives about India’s independence movement, covering his tumultuous experiences across vast landscapes from Japan to Manchuria, Mongolia, and the Central Asian regions. A fresh perspective on the Indian freedom struggle abroad, this powerful testimony and heartfelt memoir, including a new foreword by the author’s son, G. M. Nair, captures the indomitable spirit of his endeavors.

日本初の本格的なインド料理店、東京銀座「ナイルレストラン」の創業者はインド独立運動家。インド国民軍、インド独立連盟の組織者として、ラシュ・ビハリ・ボース、スバス・チャンドラ・ボースらと反英インド独立闘争を展開したA・M・ナイルが歴史の真実を語る...。日本から満州、モンゴル、西域に至る広大な地空をめぐった波乱の活動と不屈の魂。「生」の歴史証言と感動の回想録。

Foreword: In Loving Memory
Preface
1. My Home State
2. Early Years
3. A Turning Point
4. Social Reforms Movement
5. At the Crossroads
6. Departure for Japan
7. At Kyoto University
8. Meeting Rash Behari Bose
9. The Emperor’s Coronation Day
10. Student Days in Kyoto
11. 1932–33, A New Turning Point
12. In Manchukuo
13. In Mongolia and Sinkiang
14. Visit to Tokyo
15. To Mongolia Again: My “Economic War” with Britain
16. Manchukuo Again
17. My Marriage
18. Last Spell in Manchukuo
19. The Second World War and the IIL in Southeast Asia
20. The Tokyo Conference of the IIL
21. The Bangkok Conference
22. The Indian National Army
23. The IIL’s Move from Bangkok to Singapore
24. The Subhas Era and the Second INA
25. The Imphal Campaign
26. The Close of the Subhas Era
27. The Surrender of Japan
28. The Disappearance of Subhas Chandra Bose
29. India and Postwar Japan
30. The India-Japan Peace Treaty
Epilogue
Appendices
1. Explanatory Notes
2. Rash Behari Bose’s Presidential Address at the Inauguration of the Bangkok Conference (June 15, 1942)
3. Brief Life Sketches of Justice (Dr.) Radhabinod Pal and Yasaburo Shimonaka
4. The Treaty Of Peace Between the Governments of India and Japan (June 9, 1952).
About the Author

著：A. M. Nair（A. M. ナイル）
Ayyappanpillai Madhavan Nair, or A. M. Nair, was born in Kerala, India, in 1905. He came to Japan in 1928, where he studied civil engineering at Kyoto Imperial University. In 1942, he participated in the establishment of the Indian Independence League, and from then until the end of the war was consistently involved in various movements in the cause of India’s independence. In 1949, founded the Nair Trading Company and opened Nair Restaurant in Tokyo’s Ginza, which continues to this day.