he Viceroy's journal describes the autumn and winter of 1945–1946
The first INA trial, which was held in public, grew to become a rallying point for the independence motion from the autumn of 1945. The launch of INA prisoners and the suspension of the trials got here to be the dominant political campaign, superseding the marketing campaign for independence. Christopher Bayly notes that the "INA was to turn into a means more powerful enemy of the British empire in defeat than it had been throughout its ill-fated triumphal march on Delhi." The Viceroy's journal describes the autumn and winter of 1945–1946 as "The Edge of a Volcano". The setting of the trial at Red Fort was taken by Indian public as a deliberate taunt by the British Raj over the vanquished INA, recalling the INA's battle cries of unfurling the Indian tricolour over the Red Fort. Many in contrast the trials to that of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor tried in the same place after the failed 1857 rebellion. Support for the INA grew quickly and th