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Died. Sarat Chandra Bose, 60, chubby, British-baiting leader of India's left-wing Socialist Republican Party, elder brother of the late Subhas Chandra Bose, wartime Japanese puppet, younger brother of the late Congressman Satish Chandra Bose; of a coronary thrombosis; in Calcutta...
...Delhi, while Parliament clapped and cheered, India's Commerce Minister Kshitish Chandra Neogy proclaimed an embargo forbidding Indian coal shipments to Pakistan. It was retaliation, said Neogy, for Pakistan's embargo on half a million bales of raw jute bought by Indian dealers last summer and still undelivered...
Most prominent of the three was fiery chauvinist Subhas Chandra Bose. He came out of South Calcutta's anti-British underground to go to the presidency of the Indian National Congress in 1938; then he broke with Gandhi, joined the Japanese to fight the British, met death in a Japanese plane...
...elder brother, Satish Chandra Bose, a quieter and steadier Congressman, was South Calcutta's delegate to the West Bengal Assembly until his death last year...
...third brother, Sarat Chandra Bose, now 60, fat and moonfaced, was Minister of Works, Mines and Power until the Congress in 1946 gave his cabinet job to a Moslem Leaguer. In a huff, Sarat Bose quit the Congress, organized his own Socialist Republican Party. He was in Switzerland, recuperating from a mild heart attack, when a by-election was scheduled for his brother Satish's legislative seat. Promptly he declared himself a candidate. Onto his bandwagon leaped opportunist Communists, disgruntled Socialists and rabid Hindu Communalists-all united against an old Congress Party warhorse, Suresh...