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Anuj Dhar
Almost a year after Bhagwanji's death in 1985, the UP High Court
had his belongings listed and sent to the Faizabad treasury.
The work on the inventory, which started on March 23, 1986, continued
for one and a half years, at the end of which more than 2,700 items
were listed and sealed in dozens of boxes. The court order came
after Lalita Bose, MA Haleem (both are now dead) and Vishwa Bandhu
Tiwari in a writ petition said that since the man could be Netaji,
his belongings needed to be preserved. Earlier, the local administration
had planned to auction them.
On November 26, 2001, the seals were broken before Justice Manoj
Kumar Mukherjee, chairman of the one-man commission probing the
disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. After the belongings
were examined, a few articles were marked for handwriting and DNA
sampling. The articles included, notes left behind in English, Bangla
and Hindi, and teeth found in matchboxes.
The hermit's belongings, as listed in the inventory, can be grouped
under the following heads (This list is incomplete):
 Newpapers/Magazines
General
books in English
Books
on politics and related subjects
Photographs
of Netaji and people close to him
Documents
on Netaji death mystery
Miscellaneous
Newpapers/Magazines
Reader's Digest
Time
The Pioneer
Times of India
Organiser
Dainik Jagran
Amrit Prabhat
Aaj
Probe India
Onlooker
The Illustrated Weekly of India
Dharamyug
Hindustan Standard
Joyshree
Jugantar
Anand Bazar Patrika
Indian Observer
Indian Express
Statesman
Bartmaan
Blitz
Swatantra Bharat
General books in English
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The
Works of Charles Dickens: The Authentic Edition-1
The Works of Charles Dickens: The Authentic Edition-3
The
Works of Charles Dickens: The Authentic Edition-4
The
Works of Charles Dickens: The Authentic Edition-5
The
Works of Charles Dickens: The Authentic Edition-15
The
Works of Charles Dickens: The Authentic Edition-18
The
Picwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Little
Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Bleak
House by Charles Dickens
Great
Expectations by Charles Dickens
The
Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Hard
Times by Charles Dickens
Christmas
Stories by Charles Dickens
Our
Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Oliver
Twist by Charles Dickens
American
Notes For General Circulation by Charles Dickens
Pictures
From Italy by Charles Dickens
A
Child's History of England by Charles Dickens
Life
and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
The
Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
David
Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Cheiro's
Book of Numbers
Twentieth
Century Dictionary
Complete
Works of William Shakespeare
Gulliver's
Travel by Jonathan Swift
The
Odyssey by Homer
Carry
on Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
Right
Ho Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
The
Inimitable Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
The
Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz
The
Lesson of the History by Will and Ariral Durant
Flying
Saucers Farewell by George Adamski
Life
Beyond Death by Swami Abedanand
The
Story of Civilization by Will and Durant Vol 1-10
Celebrated
Crimes translated by IG Burnham
The
Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
The
Hunch Back of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Tropic
of Cancer by Henry Miller
Richard
II by Shakespeare
Winter's
Tale by William Shakespeare
The
Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
Othello
by William Shakespeare
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
To
Each Is a stranger: Agyaye (Translation)
Alice
in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through
the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Prometheus
Bound / The Suppliants by Aeschylus
Homer's
Iliad (Translation by Richmond Lattimore)
The
Judge by Tara Shankar Banerjee (Translation)
Useful
Plants of India and Pakistan by Z F Dastur
Medicinal
Plants of India and Pakistan by Z F Dastur
Tomorrow
and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Aldous Huxley
The
Sacred Rome
Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward FitzGerald)
Flying Saucers Have Landed - Leslie & Adamski
The
World Eye by Lobson Rompad
Books on Politics and related subjects
Dissentient Report by Suresh Bose
Jinnah
and Gandhi- HK Majumdar
International
Military Tribunal for the Far East: Dissentient Judgement of Justice
Radha Binod Pal
Message
of Subhas Chandra Bose: Suresh Chandra Bose
Vivekananad's
Influence on Subhas: Nanda Mukherjee
Netaji
Through German Lense: Nanda Mukherjee
India
Wins Freedom: Maulana Azad
Netaji
Ban Bandhu-Azad Hind Wa Bangladesh: Samar Guha
The
History of the Freedom Movement in India Vo1 1-3: RC Majumdar
The
Last Days of the British Raj: Leonard Mosley
Moscow's
Hand in India: Peter Sengar (Underlined with comments)
Moscow's
Shadow over West Bengal: Rajni Mukherjee
Freedom
and After: Ravindra Nath
Jail
Mein 30 Baras (30 years in prison): Trailokya Nath Chakrovarty
Nehru's
Fatal Friendship: Sita Ram Goyal
Distant
Neighbour: Kuldeep Nayyar
India's
China War by Neville Maxwell
Charter
of the United Nations
Between
the Lines: Kuldeep Nayyar
India
Critical Years: Kuldeep Nayyar
Himalayan
Blunder by Brigadier JP Dalvi
The
Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Part 1, 3 and 4
Photographs of Netaji and people close to him
A photograph of Janki Nath Bose and Prabhawati Bose framed in
glass
A
photograph framed in glass having a slip on which is written "father
and mother"
A
picture showing a young and an old person. Lalita Bose identified
the young person as her uncle Subhas
A
picture showing Pabitra Mohan Roy and his family
A
picture showing people performing the shradh ceremony of Leela Roy
A
picture showing Suresh Bose, former West Bengal Chief Minsiter Prafulla
Chandra Sen and Samar Guha
A
picture showing Suresh Bose garlanding picture of Leela Roy
A
picture showing Trailokya Nath Chakrovarty garlanding a picture of
Leela Roy
A
picture showing a big picture of Subhas Bose that has been garlanded
A
picture showing two rows of lamps. The caption says "deep sajja
on the birthday of Netaji"
A
picture showing some people playing band. Caption says "Birthday
of Netaji-1973 band party"
A
picture showing some girls blowing conchs. The caption says "Shanka
Dhawani, Netaji Birthday"
A
picture showing some people, including Pabitra Mohna Roy, performing
yagna
·Collectibles on Subhas Bose death mystery
A collection of newspapers and magazines discussing to the proceedings
and findings of Kholsa Commission
A file of papers on Khosla Commission dated July 1971. One of the
documents is a five-page letter in which the Government of India
has been requested to produce 12 documents
Notarised oath paper given to Khosla Commission by Dwijendra Nath
Bose, a nephew of Subhas Bose
Invoice for Prof Samar Guha's book "Netaji: Dead or Alive"
Original summons sent to Suresh Bose by Khosla Commission
A news report in "Daily Monitor" of 30.5.70 titled 'Mary
Taylor's sensational Confession' where a British woman speaks of
her father who thought Subhas Bose to be alive
Series of articles in "Anand Bazar Patrika" written by
Barun Sen Gupta from 25 September to 22 October, 1974. Titled "Was
Taihoku plane crash planned?," the series refers to Leela Roy's
visit to Neemsar to meet a hermit
Bangla
magazine "Amrita" containing an essay by Dwijendra Nath
Bose on Netaji's disappearance
A
copy of "Times of India", Delhi, 26 October 1982 containing
article "Soviet Scholars revise opinion of Netaji"
A
copy of "The India Observer" of 2 October 1964 containing
article "Netaji in exile"
A
copy of "Swatantra Bharat" of 13 March 1978 containing
report on claims of Samar Guha that Subhas Bose was alive
Copies
of "Jugantar" of 8 August 1977 and "Statesman"
of 20 August 1977 containing reports on Transfer of Power volumes
that had extracts of secret documents on Subhas Bose's death
Other interesting objects
Empire Corona Typewriter (Made in England)
A
broken ivory smoking pipe and pipe cleaners
Gillette safety razor (Made in England)
One lead pencil fitted with a torch
Magnifying glass (Made in Switzerland)
One Rolex wrist watch
One Omega gold wrist watch
One chronometer
One
large Tricolour
A pair of 16X56 German binoculars
Records
of K L Saighal, Nazrul Geet, Bismillah Khan's shahnai, and Ravi
Shankar's ragas
Records
of Netaji's voice issued by Netaji Research Bureau
Two LP record of Qazi Nazrul Islam in the voice of Rabindra Nath
Tagore
Philips
Super FM automatic frequency controlled transistor
12 Hitachi compact cassettes
National Panasonic tape recorder
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