China and beyond: Some discoveries from Faizabad also indicate to Bhagwanji's movement from Russia into China for an onward journey into India. (The circumstances of this journey are not known).

One of the discoveries is of a hand drawn rough map showing the whole of Asian region. The arrow marks on the map indicate the movement of a traveller through South-East Asia, the hub of INA activities and Afghanistan, where Netaji had gone in 1941 on his way to Berlin. The map also shows the places the traveller went to in central and eastern India.

Notably, however, the map shows the movement from the Siberian region into China. Incidentally, many people recall Bhagwanji telling them about his entering India from the Chinese side through the mountains. Srikant Sharma, who spent some time with Bhagwanji in the early 1960s and identified the latter as Netaji in his deposition before the Mukherjee Commission, recalls Bhagwanji telling him how he made his way through snowy region close to Mansarover in China.

Sharma quotes Bhagwanji: "There was ice underneath the sheet and if I had walked straight the ice could have given in. I had to drag on my chest and it turned red at the end of the ordeal."