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3. Before starting I would like to take this
opportunity to express my sincere thanks
to respected “ mam” for giving me this
project…
Apart from that I also want to
thank my friend FARMAN for helping me
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
4. Table of Contents
Introduction
Early Life
National Politics
Escape from British India
Leadership of Azad Hind Fouz
Indian National Army
First and Second INA
INA in Operation
End of INA
Repatriation to India
Red Fort Trial
Ideology and philosophy
5. Subhas Chandra Bose
Born 23 January 1897
Cuttack, Orissa (Bengal Presidency)
British India (present day India)
Died Unknown
Nationality Indian
Known for Prominent Figure of Indian
independence movement activism and
reorganizing and leading the Indian National
Army in World War II
Title Head of Azad Hind
Ceremonial chief of Indian National Army
Political party Indian National Congress,
Forward Bloc founded by him on 3 May 1939
Religion Hinduism
Children Anita Bose Pfaf
6. Early life
Born in a Bengali Hindu, kayastha family on 23 January
1897 in Cuttack, odisha, (bengal presidency), to janakinath
bose, an advocate and prabhavati devi.
His parents' ancestral house was at kodalia village
(near south 24 parganas, west bengal) .
Studied at stewart school, cuttack, an anglo school, until
the seventh standard and then shifted to ravenshaw
collegiate school.
After securing the second position in the matriculation
examination of calcutta province in 1911, he got admitted
to the presidency college.
Later joined scottish church college under university of
calcutta and passed b.A. In 1918 in philosophy.
7. National politics
Indian National Congress
In 1927, after being released from prison,
Bose became general secretary of the
Congress party and worked with Jawaharlal
Nehru for indepenent.
Again Bose was arrested and jailed for civil
disobedience.
This time he emerged to become Mayor
of Calcutta in 1930.
Bose appeared at the 1939 Congress
meeting on a stretcher.
He was elected president again over
Gandhi's preferred candidate Pattabhi
Sitaramayya.
8. All India Forward Bloc
On 22 June 1939 Bose organized the Forward Bloc.
U Muthuramalingam Thevar, who was disillusioned by the official
Congress leadership which had not revoked the Criminal Tribes Act
(CTA), joined the Forward Bloc.
Bose advocated a campaign of mass civil disobedience to protest
against Viceroy Lord Linlithgow's decision to declare war on India's
behalf without consulting the Congress leadership.
Bose organized mass protests in Calcutta calling for the 'Holwel
Monument' commemorating the Black Hole of Calcutta.
9. Escape from British India to Nazi Germany
& Japan
Bose's arrest and subsequent release set the
scene for his escape to Germany,
via Afghanistan and the Soviet Union.
Bose escaped from under British surveillance
at his house in Calcutta.
Bose spent almost three years in Berlin,
Germany from 1941 until 1943.
During his earlier visit to Germany in 1934 he
had met Emilie Schenkl, the daughter of an
Austrian veterinarian whom he married in 1937.
10. Leadership of Azad Hind Fauj and later events
The Indian National Army(INA) was originally
founded by Captain Mohan Singh in Singapore
on 1 September 1942with Japan's Indian POWs
in the Far East.
Indian Independence League, headed by
expatriate nationalist leader Rash Behari Bose.
However, the idea of a liberation army was
revived with the arrival of Subhas Chandra
Bose in the Far East in 1943.
Even when faced with military reverses, Bose
was able to maintain support for the Azad Hind
movement.
Bose's most famous quote was "Give me
blood, and I shall give you freedom!"
11. Indian National Army
The Indian National Army (INA) or Azad Hind Fauj
was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in
1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II.
The aim of the army was to liberate India from the
British occupation with Japanese assistance.
Initially composed of Indian prisoners of war
captured by Japan in the Malayan campaign .
the Rani of Jhansi regiment was formed as an all
volunteer women's unit to fight the British occupiers
as well as provide medical services to the INA.
12. First INA
Japan and Southeast Asia were major
refuges for Indian nationalists living in
exile before the start of World War II.
The First Indian National Army was
formed under Mohan Singh.
At the outbreak of World War II in
South East Asia, 70,000 Indian troops
were stationed in Malaya.
13. Second INA
The army was called Arzi
Hukumat-e-Azad Hind.
This second INA in
collaboration with the Imperial
Japanese Army fought against
the British.
14. INA in operation
As the Japanese offensive
opened, the INA sent its first
forces into battle.
Prem Kumar Sahgal, an officer of
the INA once Military secretary to
Subhas Bose and later tried in the
first Red Fort trials.
15. End of the INA
As the Japanese withdrawal from
Burma progressed, the other remnants
began a long march over land and on
foot towards Bangkok.
At the time of Japan's surrender in
September 1945.
Bose left for Manchuria to attempt to
contact the advancing Soviet troops.
Reported to have died in an air crash
near Taiwan.
16. Repatriation to India
By July 1945, a large number had been
shipped back to India.
At the time of the fall of Japan, the
remaining captured troops were transported to
India via Rangoon.
17. Red Fort trial
At the conclusion of the war, the government of
British India brought some of the captured INA
soldiers to trial on treason charges.
Between November 1945 and May 1946,
approximately ten courts-martial were held.
Colonel Prem Sahgal, Colonel Gurubaksh Singh
Dhillon and Major General Shah Nawaz Khan
held in a public trial at the Red Fort.
18. Disappearance and alleged death
Bose is alleged to have died in a plane
crash at Taihoku (Taipei), Taiwan, on 18
August 1945 while en route to Tokyo and
Soviet Union.
The Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
Mitsubishi Ki-21 bomber he was
travelling on had engine trouble.
His ashes were taken to Japan and
interred at the Renkōji Temple in Tokyo.
The absence of his body has led to many
theories being put forward concerning his
possible survival.
19. Ideology and philosophy
Bose was elected president of the
Indian National Congress for two
consecutive terms.
His famous motto was: "Give me
blood and I will give you freedom".
Subhas Chandra Bose believed
that the Bhagavad Gita was a great
source of inspiration for the struggle
against the British.
