The Royal Indian Navy mutinies
1946 · Event
Ratings in Bombay strike over pay and racial abuse, and within days 20,000 sailors on 78 ships have raised Congress and League flags together, with crowds in the streets beside them. Suppressed in a week — but London absorbs the real message: the instruments of the Raj can no longer be relied on.
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