The Untold Story -LT General B.M. Kaul

This book, I hope, will enable the reader to see to what extent I,- or others—are answerable for some happenings.During the pre-Independence period, there were two types of officers in the army: a few who supported our struggle for freedom and the many who were either hostile or apathetic to this upsurge. The latter, to keep themselves well in with the British, derided my nationalistic outlook and my admiration for Nehru and our other great leaders. These staunch supporters of the British Raj, when India became independent in 1947, felt greatly embarrassed but being worshippers of the rising sun the dexterously switched their loyalties, overnight, to the new leaders of India.at whom they had scoffed not long ago.They had, all the same, an uneasy conscience due to their role in the British times and felt unsafe in Free India.They, therefore, did not look without dismay, upon the access given to me by many of our national leaders, spe cially Nehru, after they came into power. I suppose they did so perhaps because I had identified myself with them during difficult and fateful days (whereas these turn-coats had kept away from them) and also because they must have had enough reasons to seek my occasional advice:
This situation was not of my making but was the result of historica circumstances.