Talk:Jiffs

A fact from Jiffs appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 August 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Jiffs was a derogatory propaganda term employed by military intelligence of British India to denote soldiers of the Indian Army in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II?

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Use of name[edit]

Good article. One point which may be worth considering is that while the name was undoubtedly pejorative or dismissive, it was also used for tactical reasons. In battle especially, it was vital to avoid ambiguity in signals or orders and Indian National Army could easily be confused with Indian Army and vice versa, in both English and Hindi. Once the term "Jiffs" was adopted, the term could only refer to the INA, while "Indian Army" or "Indian Troops" could refer only to Indian personnel fighting with the Allies. HLGallon 02:36, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]