Copy of newspaper articles from Free Press Journal, reporting on Indian and Indonesian relations, 1946

Copies of newspaper articles from Free Press Journal, reporting on Indian and Indonesian relations, including opinion pieces on Independence, 1946. [Articles written by ?] P.R.S. Mani, foreign correspondent for Free Press Journal. Some articles include date annotations.

Articles contain observations on Indonesia. All are consistent with Mani’s diary entries and can be assumed to have been authored by Mani. They include conditions under continuing SEAC control and ongoing nationalist armed struggle; Indian-Indonesian relations; examples of racism and humiliation of Indian troops by Dutch in Indonesia; various reports on conditions in Indonesia with major interest in the Indonesian perspective on these events; favourable reports on Indian troops who had joined Indonesian side. NB: No journalists’ bylines used in this newspaper in that period but, as well as their consistency with his diary entries, these items were collected and saved BY PRS Mani, which strongly indicates they were authored by him.