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Shah Nawaz Khan

Indian National Army

INA officer tried at the Red Fort in 1945 with Sahgal and Dhillon. The trial became a national political event.

Life
1914–1983
Place
Delhi, Delhi, India
Years
1943–1946
Map
28.6562, 77.241
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Biography

Shah Nawaz Khan, 1914–1983, was a British Indian Army officer who joined the INA. In 1945 the British tried him at the Red Fort in Delhi with Prem Kumar Sahgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon. Protests spread across India. The trials did not by themselves end British rule, but they made the INA a public question of colonial authority. A birth association is given as Rawalpindi district. The pin is the Red Fort.

Revolution

Theme. Red Fort trial

Key figures. Prem Kumar Sahgal, Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon

Outcome. Tried at the Red Fort in 1945–46. The proceedings became a focus of anti-colonial protest.

Casualties. Not a personal tally.

Influence. One of the three public faces of the Red Fort trials.