{"id":27380,"date":"2026-01-10T12:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=27380"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:18:39","slug":"forgotten-indian-prisoners-of-world-war-2-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=27380","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Indian prisoners of World War 2 in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 <!-- -->Most histories of Indian soldiers during World War II start and end with the vexed anti-colonial nationalist hero Subhas Chandra Bose. But a new book by Singapore-based banker-turned-author Gautam Hazarika turns to the fate of forgotten leaders and prisoners of war (POWs) in Singapore to paint a fuller picture. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In The Forgotten Indian Prisoners Of World War II: Surrender, Loyalty, Betrayal And Hell (2025), Hazarika makes the case for unearthing this buried history. Despite there being 67,000 Indian troops who defended Singapore and Malaya at the start of <!-- -->WWII<!-- --> \u2013 amounting to about half of the Allied army \u2013 little is known about their agency and fate under the Japanese Occupation. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"tags-test-id\">\n<p><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Books\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Books<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Non-fiction books\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Non-fiction books<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for World War II\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">World War II<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/life\/arts\/banker-turned-author-tells-forgotten-story-of-indian-prisoners-in-singapore-during-world-war-ii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Most histories of Indian soldiers during World War II start and end with the vexed anti-colonial nationalist hero Subhas Chandra Bose. But a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}