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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Subhas Chandra Bose
| image = Subhas Chandra Bose NRB.jpg
| caption = Bose, {{circa|1930s}}
| birth_name = Subhas Chandra Bose
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1897|1|23}}
| birth_place = [[Cuttack]], [[Bengal Presidency]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1945|8|18|1897|1|23}}<ref name=dod-combined/><ref name=gordon-bose-death/>
| death_place = [[Taipei|Taihoku]], Taiwan
| death_cause = [[Third-degree burns]] from [[Death of Subhas Chandra Bose|aircrash]]<ref name=gordon-bose-death/>
| resting_place = [[Renkō-ji]], Tokyo, Japan
| office1 = Leader of [[Indian National Army]]{{efn|His formal title after 21 October 1943 was: Head of State, Prime Minister, Minister of War, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the [[Provisional Government of Free India]], which was based in [[Japanese occupation of Singapore|Japanese-occupied Singapore]]{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=502}}{{Sfn|Wolpert|2000|p=339}} with jurisdiction but not sovereignty over [[Japanese occupation of the Andaman Islands|Japanese-occupied Andaman Islands]].{{efn|"The Japanese navy was unwilling to transfer administration of [the Andaman and Nicobar Islands] to Bose's forces, but a face-saving agreement was worked out so that the provisional government was given a 'jurisdiction', while actual control remained throughout with the Japanese military... Bose continued to lobby for complete transfer, but did not succeed."{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=502–503}}}}}}
| term1 = 4 July 1943 – 18 August 1945
| predecessor1 = [[Mohan Singh (general)|Mohan Singh]] and [[Iwaichi Fujiwara]] founders of the [[First Indian National Army]]
| successor1 = [[Death of Subhas Chandra Bose|''Office abolished'']]
| order2 = 
| office3 = [[List of Presidents of the Indian National Congress|President]] of the [[Indian National Congress]]
| term3 = 18 January 1938 – 29 April 1939
| predecessor3 = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
| successor3 = [[Rajendra Prasad]]
| office2 = President of the [[All India Forward Bloc]]
| term2 = 22 June 1939 – 16 January 1941
| predecessor2 = ''Office established''
| successor2 = [[Sardul Singh Kavishar]]
| order4 = 5th
| office4 = Mayor of Calcutta
| term4 = 22 August 1930 – 15 April 1931
| predecessor4 = [[Jatindra Mohan Sengupta]]
| successor4 = [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]
| spouse = {{Marriage|[[Emilie Schenkl]]|1937}}{{efn|Secretly married without ceremony or witnesses, unacknowledged publicly by Bose.{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|p=15}}}}
| children = [[Anita Bose Pfaff]]
| father = [[Janakinath Bose]]
| mother = [[Prabhabati Bose (Dutt)|Prabhabati Bose]]
| education = {{ubl|Baptist Mission's Protestant European School, Cuttack, 1902–09{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=32}}|[[Ravenshaw Collegiate School]], Cuttack, 1909–12{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=33}}|[[Presidency College, Kolkata|Presidency College, Calcutta]], 1912–15 February 1916{{efn|Expelled from the college and rusticated from the university, 15 February 1916;{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=48}} reinstated in the university 20 July 1917.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=52}}}}{{efn|"When another run-in between Professor Oaten and some students took place on February 15 (1916), a group of students including Subhas Bose, ... decided to take the law in their own hands. Coming down the broad staircase from the second floor, Oaten was surrounded (the) students who beat him with their sandals—and fled. Although Oaten himself was not able to identify any of the attackers, a bearer said he saw Subhas Bose and Ananga Dam among those fleeing. Rumors in student circles also placed Subhas among the group. An investigation was carried out by the college authorities, and these two were expelled from the college and rusticated from the university.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=48}}}}| [[Scottish Church College]], Calcutta, 20 July 1917–1919|[[Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge#History|Fitzwilliam Hall]], Non-Collegiate Students Board, Cambridge, 1919–21.{{sfn|The_Open_University}}{{efn|"Upon arriving in Britain, Bose went up to Cambridge to gain admission. He managed to gain entry to Fitzwilliam Hall, a body for non-collegiate members of the University. Bose took the Mental and Moral Sciences Tripos."}}}}
| alma_mater = {{ubl|[[University of Calcutta]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]], Philosophy, 1919)|[[University of Cambridge]] (B.A. Mental and Moral Sciences Tripos, 1921.{{sfn|The_Open_University}})}}
| known_for = [[Indian independence movement]]
| signature = S_Basu.png
| signature_alt = Signature of Subhas Chandra Bose in English and Bengali
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />[[All India Forward Bloc]]
| nickname = 
| native_name = 
| native_name_lang = bn
| honorific_prefix = [[Indian_honorifics|Netaji]]
}}
'''Subhas Chandra Bose'''{{efn|{{IPAc-en|ʃ|ʊ|b|ˈ|h|ɑː|s|_|ˈ|tʃ|ʌ|n|d|r|ə|_|ˈ|b|oʊ|s|audio=Subhas Chandra Bose name in his own voice.ogg}} {{respell|shuub|HAHSS|_|CHUN|drə|_|BOHSS}};<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bose|first=Subhas Chandra|date=26 June 1943|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n9c9qdZoVI|title=Speech of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Tokyo, 1943|publisher=Prasar Bharati Archives|access-date=26 January 2021|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130153342/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n9c9qdZoVI|url-status=live}}</ref> {{ipa|bn|ʃubʰaʃ tʃɔn̪d̪rɔ bɔʃu|lang}}}} (23 January 1897&nbsp;– 18 August 1945) was an Indian [[Nationalism#Anti-colonial|anti-colonial nationalist]] whose defiance of [[British raj|British authority in India]] made him a hero among many Indians,{{efn|name=Mythic|"His romantic saga, coupled with his defiant nationalism, has made Bose a near-mythic figure, not only in his native Bengal, but across India."{{sfn|Metcalf|Metcalf|2012|p=210}}}}{{efn|"Bose's heroic endeavor still fires the imagination of many of his countrymen. But like a meteor which enters the earth's atmosphere, he burned brightly on the horizon for a brief moment only."{{sfn|Kulke|Rothermund|2004|p=311}}}}{{efn|"But in death [Bose] was a martyred patriot whose memory could be an ideal tool for political mobilization."{{sfn|Bandyopadhyay|2004|p=427}}}} but his wartime alliances with [[Nazi Germany]] and [[Japanese Fascism|Fascist Japan]] left a legacy vexed by [[authoritarianism]],<ref name=lal-gandhi-inc-jewish-question1>{{cite book|last=Lal|first=Vinay|author-link=Vinay Lal|chapter=Gandhi, the Indian National Congres, and the Jewish Question|title=Gandhi, Truth, and Nonviolence: The Politics of Engagement in Post-Truth Times|editor-last=Lal|editor-first=Vinay|location = Oxford and New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2025|isbn=9780198936626|quote=(p. 240) Such a hagiographic narrative is without a shred of credibility: Bose’s involvement with fascism ran deep... the principal episodes in the narrative of Bose’s complicity with Nazism—and, it may be noted at least in passing, Japanese militarism—are equally well established.}}</ref>{{efn|"Bose chose to embrace the fascist powers as allies against the British and fled India, first to Hitler's Germany, then, on a German submarine, to a Japanese-occupied Singapore."{{sfn|Metcalf|Metcalf|2012|p=210}}}}{{efn|The deaths of Subhas Chandra Bose in August 1945 and Vallabhbhai Patel in December 1950 removed not only Nehru's principal competitors for national leadership but also powerful competitors for authoritarian state ideologies... Bose thought Hitler and Mussolini represented the wave of the future and would win the war they both anticipated...Styling himself ''Netaji'' (leader on the Fuhrer mode), [Bose] declared his objective to be liberation of India by military means.<ref name=rudolph-rudolph-bose>{{citation|last1=Rudolph|first1=Lloyd I.|last2=Rudolph|first2=Suzanne Hoeber|title=In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State|pages=69&ndash;70|isbn=0-226-73138-3|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1987}}</ref>}}{{efn|Not all Indians, even within the Congress, agreed with the anti-fascist position of the CFD (Congress Foreign Department), and no foreign policy initiative went without contestation. There remained many in India who formally and informally challenged this position by supporting fascist regimes over anti-fascist solidarity. Most prominent was Subhas Chandra Bose, a left-leaning Congressmen from Bengal who famously aligned with and raised an Indian army to support the Axis powers in the Second World War.<ref name=Louro-bose>{{citation|title=Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective: Transnational |isbn=9781138352186|publisher=Routledge|year=2021|last=Louro|first=Michele L.|chapter=Anti-fascism and anti-imperialism between the world wars: The perspective from India|editor1-last=Braskin|editor1-first = Kasper|editor2-last=Featherstone|editor2-first=David|editor3-last=Copsey|editor3-first=Nigel}}</ref>}} [[anti-Semitism]],<ref name=lal-gandhi-inc-jewish-question2>{{cite book|last=Lal|first=Vinay|author-link=Vinay Lal|chapter=Gandhi, the Indian National Congres, and the Jewish Question|title=Gandhi, Truth, and Nonviolence: The Politics of Engagement in Post-Truth Times|editor-last=Lal|editor-first=Vinay|location = Oxford and New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2025|isbn=9780198936626|quote=(p. 242) But one might also think that his close proximity to the administrative heart of the killing machine—his last stay in Berlin lasted nearly two years—would at least have elicited a few tears of remorse. Bose’s silence in all these respects, one is tempted to say, is deafening.}}</ref>{{efn|name=disturbing}}{{efn|In early December, pro-Hindu Mahasabha journals published articles in favour of German anti-Semitism. This stance brought the Hindu Mahasabha into conflict with the Congress which, on 12th December, made a statement containing clear references to recent European events. Within the Congress, only Bose opposed the party stance. A few months later, in April 1939, he refused to support the party motion that Jews might find refuge in India.{{sfn|Casolari|2020|pp=89&ndash;90}}}}{{efn|The draft resolution read: 'The Committee sees no objection to the employment in India of such Jewish refugees as are experts and specialists and who can fit in with the new order in India and accept Indian standards.' It was, however, rejected by the then Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose, who four years later in 1942 was reported by the ''Jewish Chronicle'' of London as having published an article in ''Angriff'', a journal of Goebbels, saying that "anti-Semitism should become part of the Indian liberation movement because Jews had helped the British to exploit Indians (21 August 1942)" Although by then Bose had left the Congress, he continued to command a strong influence within the party.<ref name=afreedi-2021-bose>{{citation|last=Aafreedi|first=Navras J.|chapter=Holocaust education in India and its challenges|title=Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and reinterpretatons|location=Abington, UK and New York, NY|editor1-last=Aafreedi|editor1-first=Navras J.|editor2-last=Singh|editor2-first=Priya|publisher=Routledge|year=2021|isbn=978-1-003-14613-1|page=154}}</ref>}}{{efn|He had opposed Nehru in permitting political asylum to Jews fleeing Europe in 1939. He was prepared to ingratiate himself with Nazi ideology by writing for Goebbels's ''Der Angriff'' in 1942. He argued that anti-Semitism should become a factor in the struggle for Indian freedom since the Jews had collaborated with British imperialism to exploit the country and its inhabitants.<ref name=Shindler-Bose>{{citation|last=Shindler|first=Colin|title=Israel and the European Left: Between Solidarity and Deligitimization|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing, Continuum|location=New York|page=112|year=2010|isbn=978-1-4411-8898-4}}</ref>}}{{efn|Bose's anti-Jewish slur was no different from the anti-Semitic remarks in the League deliberations referred to earlier. Bose also opposed Nehru's efforts to provide asylum to a limited number of European Jewish refugees who were fleeing from Nazi persecution."<ref name=kumaraswamy-bose>{{citation|last=Kumaraswamy|first=P. R.|title=Squaring the Circle: Mahatma Gandhi and the Jewish National Home, Digital version|publisher=Routledge|year=2010|page=153|isbn=9781000097856|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yOHcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT153|access-date=22 January 2025|archive-date=26 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426102940/https://books.google.com/books?id=yOHcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT153|url-status=live}}</ref>}}<ref name=cronin-2025>{{cite book|last=Cronin|first=Joseph|chapter=Affiliations, Entanglements, and 'Otherness': The Experiences of German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in India, 1938&ndash;1948|title=German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930&ndash;1950: Shelter from the Storm?|editor1-last=Cho|editor1-first=Joanne Miyang|editor2-last=Kurlander|editor2-first=Eric|editor3-last=McGechin|editor3-first=Douglas|location=London and New York|doi=10.4324/9781003517795-18|publisher=Routledge|year=2025|quote=Bose’s views on the Nazis’ main victims, the Jews, and specifically on the Jewish refugees, were also ambiguous. He wrote to his wife in 1937: “The Jews in Europe have attained so many positions because they are very skilful and the Aryans are very stupid [dumm] - otherwise, how could the foreigners [sic] in Europe make such progress?” Bose also accused his Congress colleague Nehru of “seeking to make India an asylum for Jews” in early 1939, knowing full well that their number would, at most, amount to a few thousand in a population of three hundred million. So, while Bose’s opinions did not stem from a place of deep ideological antisemitism, his partial ignorance of the situation for Jews in Germany and Europe at that time, combined with his political allegiances and priorities, led him to suspect that Jewish refugees being sent to India was just another manifestation of Britain flexing its colonial might, of political power play, rather than a reluctant and insufficient response to a rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis.}}</ref> and [[military incompetence|military failure]].{{efn|The INA's battlefield performance was quite poor when assessed either alongside the IJA or against the reformed Fourteenth Army on the battlefields of Assam and Burma.{{sfn|Marston|2014|pp=117–118}}}}{{refn|name=gordonunrealistic|"A number of Japanese officers... saw Bose as a military incompetent as well as an unrealistic and stubborn man who saw only his own needs and problems and could not see the larger picture of the war as the Japanese had to."{{sfn|Gordon|1990|p=517}}}}<ref name=combined-military-lead>
*{{citation|last=Markovits|first=Claude|title=India and the World: A History of Connections, c.1750–2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge, UK and New York, NY|pages=79, 113, 114|isbn=978-1-107-18675-0|lccn=2021000609|doi=10.1017/9781316899847|year=2021|s2cid=233601747|quote=(pp. 113–114) y. Amongst the 16,000 Indian prisoners taken by the Axis armies in North Africa, some 3,000 joined the so-called 'Legion of Free India' ('Freies Indien Legion'), in fact the 950th Infantry Regiment of the Wehrmacht, formed in 1942 in response to the call of dissident Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945)... As a fighting force, however, the legion proved singularly ineffective...from a strictly military point of view, Bose's attempt was a total fiasco}}</ref>{{efn|"the campaign revealed that [the INA] was largely a paper tiger."{{Sfn|Moreman|2013|pp=124–125}}}}{{efn|"[The Japanese commander-in-chief Kawabe] still hoped for great things from Bose and the INA, despite all the evidence that both were busted flushes."{{Sfn|McLynn|2011|p=429}}}} The honorific 'Netaji' ([[Hindustani language|Hindustani]]: "Respected Leader") was first applied to Bose in Germany in early 1942—by the Indian soldiers of the ''[[Indian Legion|Indische Legion]]'' and by the German and Indian officials in the [[Special Bureau for India]] in Berlin. It is now used throughout India.{{efn|"Another small, but immediate, issue for the civilians in Berlin and the soldiers in training was how to address Subhas Bose. Vyas has given his view of how the term was adopted: 'one of our [soldier] boys came forward with "Hamare Neta". We improved upon it: "Netaji"...&nbsp;It must be mentioned, that Subhas Bose strongly disapproved of it. He began to yield only when he saw our military group&nbsp;... firmly went on calling him "Netaji"'. (Alexander) Werth also mentioned adoption of 'Netaji' and observed accurately, that it '...&nbsp;combined a sense both of affection and honour&nbsp;...' It was not meant to echo '[[Fuehrer]]' or '[[Duce]]', but to give Subhas Bose a special Indian form of reverence and this term has been universally adopted by Indians everywhere in speaking about him."}}{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=459–460}}

Bose was born into wealth and privilege in a large [[Bengalis|Bengali]] family in [[Orissa]] during the [[British Raj]]. The early recipient of an [[Anglocentrism|Anglo-centric]] education, he was sent after college to England to take the [[Indian Civil Service]] examination. He succeeded with distinction in the vital first exam but demurred at taking the routine final exam, citing nationalism to be the higher calling. Returning to India in 1921, Bose joined the [[Indian independence movement|nationalist movement]] led by [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and the [[Indian National Congress]]. He followed [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] to leadership in a group within the Congress which was less keen on constitutional reform and more open to socialism.{{efn|"Younger Congressmen, including Jawaharlal Nehru, ... thought that constitution-making, whether by the British with their (Simon) Commission or by moderate politicians like the elder (Motilal) Nehru, was not the way to achieve the fundamental changes in society. Nehru and Subhas Bose rallied a group within Congress ... to declare for an independent republic. (p. 305) ... (They) were among those who, impatient with Gandhi's programmes and methods, looked upon socialism as an alternative for nationalistic policies capable of meeting the country's economic and social needs, as well as a link to potential international support (p. 325)."{{sfn|Stein|2010|pp=305, 325}}}} Bose became Congress president in 1938. After reelection in 1939, differences arose between him and the Congress leaders, including Gandhi, over the future federation of [[British India]] and [[princely state]]s, but also because discomfort had grown among the Congress leadership over Bose's negotiable attitude to non-violence, and his plans for greater powers for himself.<ref name=matthews-bose-congress>{{citation|last=Matthews|first=Roderick|title=Peace, Poverty, and Betrayal: A New History of British India|location=|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2021|isbn=|lccn=|page=|quote=By this point the Congress leadership was in turmoil after the election of Subhas Chandra Bose as president in 1938. His victory was taken, principally by Bose himself, as proof that Gandhi's star was in decline, and that the Congress could now switch to his personal programme of revolutionary change. He set no store by non-violence and his ideals were pitched a good deal to the left of Gandhi's. His plans also included a large amount of leadership from himself. This autocratic temperament alienated virtually the whole Congress high command, and when he forced himself into the presidency again the next year, the Working Committee revolted. Bose, bitter and broken in health, complained that the 'Rightists' had conspired to bring him down. This was true, but Bose, who seems to have had a talent for misreading situations, seriously overestimated the strength of his support—a significant miscalculation, for it led him to resign in order to create his own faction, the Forward Bloc, modelled on the kind of revolutionary national socialism fashionable across much of Europe at the time.}}</ref> After the large majority of the [[Congress Working Committee]] members resigned in protest,<ref name=haithcox-bose-andINC-oldguard>{{citation|last=Haithcox|first=John Patrick |title=Communism and Nationalism in India: M. N. Roy and Comintern Policy, 1920–1939|location=Princeton, NJ|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1971|lccn=79120755|isbn=0-691-08722-9|pages=282–283|quote=One of the principal points of dispute between Bose and the Congress high command was the attitude the party should take toward the proposed Indian federation. The 1935 Constitution provided for a union of the princely states with the provinces of British India on a federal basis...Following his election for a second term, Bose charged that some members of the Working Committee were willing to compromise on this issue. Incensed at this allegation, all but three of the fifteen members of the Working Committee resigned. The exception was Nehru, Bose himself, and his brother Sarat. There was no longer any hope for reconciliation between the dissidents and the old guard.}}</ref> Bose resigned as president and was eventually ousted from the party.{{Sfn|Low|2002|pp=297, 313}}{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=420–428}}

In April 1941 Bose arrived in Nazi Germany, where the leadership offered unexpected but equivocal sympathy for India's independence.{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|pp=65–67, 152}} German funds were employed to open a Free India Centre in [[Berlin]]. A 3,000-strong [[Free India Legion]] was recruited from among Indian POWs captured by [[Erwin Rommel]]'s [[Afrika Korps]] to serve under Bose.{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|p=76}}{{efn|"Having arrived in Berlin a bruised politician, his broadcasts brought him—and India—world notice.{{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=162}}}} Although peripheral to their main goals, the Germans inconclusively considered a land invasion of India throughout 1941. By the spring of 1942, the German army was [[Eastern Front (World War II)#Don, Volga, and Caucasus: Summer 1942|mired in Russia]] and Bose became keen to move to southeast Asia, where Japan had just won quick victories.{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|pp=87–88}} [[Adolf Hitler]] during his only meeting with Bose in late May 1942 agreed to arrange a submarine.{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|pp=114–116}} During this time, Bose became a father; his wife,{{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=15}}{{efn|"While writing ''The Indian Struggle'', Bose also hired a secretary by the name of Emilie Schenkl. They eventually fell in love and married secretly in accordance with Hindu rites."{{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=15}}}} or companion,{{sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=344–345}}{{efn|"Although we must take Emilie Schenkl at her word (about her secret marriage to Bose in 1937), there are a few nagging doubts about an actual marriage ceremony because there is no document that I have seen and no testimony by any other person."{{sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=344–345}}}} [[Emilie Schenkl]], gave birth to [[Anita Bose Pfaff|a baby girl]].{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|pp=15, 65–67}} Identifying strongly with the [[Axis powers]], Bose boarded a German submarine in February 1943.{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|pp=141–143}}{{Sfn|Bose|2005|p=255}} Off Madagascar, he was transferred to a Japanese submarine from which he disembarked in [[Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies|Japanese-held Sumatra]] in May 1943.{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|pp=141–143}}

With Japanese support, Bose revamped the [[Indian National Army]] (INA), which comprised Indian [[Prisoner of war|prisoners of war]] of the [[British Indian army]] who had been captured by the Japanese in the [[Battle of Singapore]].{{sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=vii–ix, xvi–xvii, 210–212|ps=...the capture of Singapore and with it thousands of Indian POWs, and reports by Major Fujiwara of the creation of a revolutionary Indian army eager to fight the British out of India. Fujiwara presided at the birth of the Indian National Army, together with a young Sikh, Captain Mohan Singh.}}<ref name=gordon-ijss-ina>{{citation|last=Gordon|first=Leonard|author-link=Leonard A. Gordon|editor=William A. Darity Jr.|year=2008|chapter=Indian National Army|title=International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, Volume 3|pages=610–611|chapter-url=http://philosociology.com/UPLOADS/_PHILOSOCIOLOGY.ir_INTERNATIONAL%20ENCYCLOPEDIA%20OF%20THE%20SOCIAL%20SCIENCES_Second%20Edition_%20Darity_5760%20pgs.pdf|quote=The Indian National Army (INA) was formed in 1942 by Indian prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in Singapore.|access-date=1 November 2021|archive-date=1 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101012423/http://philosociology.com/UPLOADS/_PHILOSOCIOLOGY.ir_INTERNATIONAL%20ENCYCLOPEDIA%20OF%20THE%20SOCIAL%20SCIENCES_Second%20Edition_%20Darity_5760%20pgs.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> A [[Azad Hind|Provisional Government of Free India]] (Azad Hind) was declared on the [[Japanese occupation of the Andaman Islands|Japanese-occupied]] [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] and was nominally presided over by Bose.{{Sfn|Low|1993|pp=31–32|ps=&nbsp;A few months later Subhas Bose, who had long been Nehru's rival for the plaudits of the younger Indian nationalists, joined the Axis powers, and in due course formed the Indian National Army to support the Japanese. ... In October 1943 ... Subhas Bose established under their auspices a Provisional Government of Azad Hind (Free India) }}{{Sfn|Wolpert|2000|p=339}}{{efn|"Tojo turned over all his Indian POWs to Bose's command, and in October 1943 Bose announced the creation of a Provisional Government of Azad ("Free") India, of which he became head of state, prime minister, minister of war, and minister of foreign affairs. Some two million Indians were living in Southeast Asia when the Japanese seized control of that region, and these emigrees were the first "citizens" of that government, founded under the "protection" of Japan and headquartered on the "liberated" Andaman Islands. Bose declared war on the United States and Great Britain the day after his government was established. In January 1944 he moved his provisional capital to Rangoon and started his Indian National Army on their march north to the battle cry of the Meerut mutineers: "Chalo Delhi!"{{Sfn|Wolpert|2000|p=339}}}} Although Bose was unusually driven and charismatic, the Japanese considered him to be militarily unskilled,{{refn|name=gordonunrealistic}} and his soldierly effort was short-lived. In late 1944 and early 1945, the British Indian Army reversed the Japanese [[Operation U-Go|attack on India]]. Almost half of the Japanese forces and fully half of the participating INA contingent were killed.{{efn|"Gracey consoled himself that Bose's Indian National Army had also been in action against his Indians and Gurkhas but had been roughly treated and almost annihilated; when the survivors tried to surrender, they tended to fall foul of the Gurkhas' dreaded kukri."{{Sfn|McLynn|2011|pp=295–296}}}} The remaining INA was driven down the Malay Peninsula and surrendered with the [[Operation Tiderace|recapture of Singapore]]. Bose chose to escape to Manchuria to seek a future in the [[Soviet Union]] which he believed to have turned anti-British.

Bose [[Death of Subhas Chandra Bose|died from third-degree burns after his plane crashed]] in Taiwan (then under [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Japanese occupation]]) on 18 August 1945.{{efn|"In May 1945, Bose would fly out of Saigon on an overloaded Japanese plane, headed for Taiwan, which crash-landed and burned. Bose suffered third-degree burns and died in the hospital on [[Taiwan|Formosa]]."{{Sfn|Wolpert|2009|p=69}}}} Some Indians did not believe that the crash had occurred,{{efn|"On 18 August 1945 at Taihoku airport in Taiwan, he died in an air crash, which many Indians still believe never happened."{{sfn|Bandyopadhyay|2004|p=427}}}} expecting Bose to return to secure India's independence.{{efn|"There are still some in India today who believe that Bose remained alive and in Soviet custody, a once and future king of Indian independence.{{Sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p=22}}}}{{efn|"Bose escaped on the last Japanese plane to leave Saigon, but he died in Formosa after a crash landing there in August. By that time, however, his death had been falsely reported so many times that a myth soon emerged in Bengal that Netaji Subhas Chandra was alive—raising another army in China or Tibet or the Soviet Union—and would return with it to "liberate" India.{{Sfn|Wolpert|2000|pp=339–340}}}}{{efn|"Subhas Bose was dead, killed in 1945 in a plane crash in the Far East, even though many of his devotees waited—as Barbarossa's disciples had done in another time and in another country—for their hero's second coming."{{Sfn|Chatterji|2007|p=278}}}} The Indian National Congress, the main instrument of Indian nationalism, praised Bose's patriotism but distanced itself from his tactics and ideology.{{Sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p=21}} The British Raj, never seriously threatened by the INA, charged 300 INA officers with treason in the [[Indian National Army trials]], but eventually backtracked in the face of opposition by the Congress,{{efn|As cases began to come to trial, the Indian National Congress began to speak out in defence of INA prisoners, even though it had vocally opposed both the INA's narrative and methods during the war. The Muslim League and the Punjab Unionists followed suit. By mid-September, Nehru was becoming increasingly vocal in his view that trials of INA defendants should not move forward.{{sfn|Marston|2014|p=129}}}} and a new mood in Britain for rapid decolonisation in India.{{Sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p=21}}{{sfn|Metcalf|Metcalf|2012|p=210}} Bose's legacy is mixed. Among many in India, he is seen as a hero, his saga serving as a would-be counterpoise to the many actions of regeneration, negotiation, and reconciliation over a quarter-century through which the independence of India was achieved.{{efn|What he is remembered for is his vigor, his militancy, his readiness to trade blood (his own if necessary) for nationhood. In large parts of Uttar Pradesh, the historian Gyanendra Pandey has recently remarked, independence is popularly credited not to 'the quiet efforts at self¬regeneration initiated by Mahatma Gandhi,' but to 'the military daring of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.'{{sfn|Fay|1995|p=522}}}} Many on the right and far-right often venerate him as a champion of Indian nationalism as well as Hindu identity by spreading conspiracy theories.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-08-05 |title='Bose appreciated the role of RSS in nation building' |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/subhash-chandra-bose-and-rss-connection-revealed/articleshow/112273726.cms |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=PTI |date=2025-01-23 |title=Parakram Diwas 2025: PM Modi, VP Dhankar pay tributes to Subhash Chandra Bose on his birth anniversary |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-vp-dhankar-pay-tributes-to-subhash-chandra-bose-on-his-birth-anniversary/article69130454.ece |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Nag |first=Jayatri |date=2024-01-23 |title=Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had clear vision for India: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-had-clear-vision-for-india-rss-chief-mohan-bhagwat/articleshow/107090832.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=The Economic Times |issn=0013-0389}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-05 |title='Way ahead of your IQ': Kangana Ranaut, mocked over 'Netaji first PM' remark |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kangana-ranaut-trolled-netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-first-pm-remark-hits-back-2523821-2024-04-05 |access-date=2025-06-26 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref>  His collaborations with [[Statism in Shōwa Japan|Japanese fascism]] and [[Nazism]] pose serious ethical dilemmas,{{efn|name=disturbing|"The most troubling aspect of Bose's presence in Nazi Germany is not military or political but rather ethical. His alliance with the most genocidal regime in history poses serious dilemmas precisely because of his popularity and his having made a lifelong career of fighting the 'good cause'. How did a man who started his political career at the feet of Gandhi end up with Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo? Even in the case of Mussolini and Tojo, the gravity of the dilemma pales in comparison to that posed by his association with Hitler and the Nazi leadership. The most disturbing issue, all too often ignored, is that in the many articles, minutes, memorandums, telegrams, letters, plans, and broadcasts Bose left behind in Germany, he did not express the slightest concern or sympathy for the millions who died in the concentration camps. Not one of his Berlin wartime associates or colleagues ever quotes him expressing any indignation. Not even when the horrors of Auschwitz and its satellite camps were exposed to the world upon being liberated by Soviet troops in early 1945, revealing publicly for the first time the genocidal nature of the Nazi regime, did Bose react."{{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=165}}}} especially his reluctance to publicly criticise the worst excesses of German anti-Semitism from 1938 onwards or to offer refuge in India to its victims.

== Biography ==

=== 1897–1921: Early life ===
[[File:Joppen1907BritishBengalBritishBurmaA.jpg|thumb|left|'''Map 1''': The growth of [[Bengal presidency|British Bengal]] between 1757 and 1803 is shown in shades of brown. Cuttack is approximately {{convert|225|miles}} southwest of Calcutta.]]

Subhas Chandra Bose was born to Bengali parents [[Prabhabati Bose]] ({{Nee|Dutt}}) and [[Janakinath Bose]] on 23 January 1897 in [[Cuttack]]—in what is today the state of [[Odisha]] in India but was part of the [[Bengal Presidency]] in [[British India]].{{efn|"On 23 January 1897 at Cuttack, Orissa, was born Subhas Chandra Bose, ninth child of Janakinath and Prabhabati Bose. Janakinath was a lawyer of a Kayastha family, and was wealthy enough to educate all his children well. By Indian standards this family of Bengali origin was well-to-do."{{sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=102—103}}}}{{efn|Bose was born into a prominent Bengali family on 23 January 1897 in Cuttack in the present-day state of Orissa. His father was a government pleader who was appointed to the Bengal Legislative Council in 1912."{{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=1}}}} Prabhabati, or familiarly ''Mā jananī'' ({{Literal translation|mother}}), the anchor of family life, had her first child at age 14 and 13 children thereafter. Subhas was the ninth child and the sixth son.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=9,14}} Jankinath, a successful lawyer and government [[advocate|pleader]],{{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=1}} was loyal to the government of [[British India]] and scrupulous about matters of language and the law. A self-made man from the rural outskirts of [[Calcutta]], he had remained in touch with his roots, returning annually to his village during the ''[[Durga Puja|pooja]]'' holidays.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=12,13}}

Following his five older brothers, Bose entered the Baptist Mission's Protestant European School in [[Cuttack]] in January 1902.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=32}} English was the medium of all instruction in the school, the majority of the students being European or [[Anglo-Indians]] of mixed British and Indian ancestry.{{sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=102—103}} The curriculum included English—correctly written and spoken—Latin, the Bible, good manners, British geography, and British History; no Indian languages were taught.{{sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=102—103}}{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=32}} The choice of the school was Bose's father's, who wanted his sons to speak flawless English with flawless intonation, believing both to be important for access to the British in India.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=11}} The school contrasted with Subhas's home, where only [[Bengali language|Bengali]] was spoken. At home, his mother worshipped the [[Hindu]] goddesses [[Durga]] and [[Kali]], told stories from the epics [[Mahabharata]] and [[Ramayana]], and sang Bengali religious songs.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=32}} From her, Subhas imbibed a nurturing spirit, looking for situations in which to help people in distress, preferring gardening around the house to joining in sports with other boys.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=33}} His father, who was reserved in manner and busy with professional life, was a distant presence in a large family, causing Subhas to feel he had a nondescript childhood.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=31–32}} Still, Janakinath read [[English literature]] avidly—[[John Milton]], [[William Cowper]], [[Matthew Arnold]], and [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Hamlet]]'' being among his favourites; several of his sons were to become English literature enthusiasts like him.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=11}}

[[File:Subhas Bose standing extreme right with his large family Cuttack, India 1905.jpg|right|thumb|Janakinath Bose, Prabhabati Bose, and their family, ca. 1905. [[Sarat Chandra Bose]] (standing, centre) and Subhas Bose (aged 8, standing, extreme right).{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=150}}]]

In 1909, the 12-year-old Subhas Bose followed his five brothers to the [[Ravenshaw Collegiate School]] in Cuttack.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=33}} Here, Bengali and [[Sanskrit]] were also taught, as were ideas from Hindu scriptures such as the [[Vedas]] and the [[Upanishads]] not usually picked up at home.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=33}} Although his Western education continued apace, he began to wear Indian clothes and engage in religious speculation. To his mother, he wrote long letters which displayed acquaintance with the ideas of the Bengali mystic [[Ramakrishna Paramahamsa]] and his disciple [[Swami Vivekananda]], and the novel ''[[Ananda Math]]'' by [[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]], popular then among young Hindu men.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=34–35}} Despite the preoccupation, Subhas was able to demonstrate an ability when needed to focus on his studies, to compete, and to succeed in exams. In 1912, he secured the second position in the matriculation examination conducted under the auspices of the [[University of Calcutta]].{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=19,37}}

Subhas Bose followed his five brothers again in 1913 to [[Presidency College, Kolkata|Presidency College, Calcutta]], the historic and traditional college for Bengal's upper-[[caste]] Hindu men.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=19,37}}{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=20}} He chose to study philosophy, his readings including [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]], [[Henri Bergson|Bergson]] and other [[Western philosophy|Western philosophers]].{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=37}} A year earlier, he had befriended [[Hemanta Kumar Sarkar]], a confidant and partner in religious yearnings.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=42–43}} At Presidency, their emotional ties grew stronger.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=42–43}} In the fanciful language of religious imagery, they declared their pure love for each other.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=42–43}} In the long vacations of 1914, they traveled to northern India for several months to search for a spiritual [[guru]] to guide them.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=42–43}} Subhas's family was not told clearly about the trip, leading them to think he had run away. During the trip, in which the guru proved elusive, Subhas came down with typhoid fever.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=42–43}} His absence caused emotional distress to his parents, leading both parents to break down upon his return.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=42–43}} Heated words were exchanged between [[Janakinath Bose|Janakinath]] and Subhas. It took the return of Subhas's favorite brother, [[Sarat Chandra Bose]], from law studies in England for the tempers to subside. Subhas returned to presidency and busied himself with studies, debating and student journalism.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=42–43}}

In February 1916, Bose was alleged to have masterminded,{{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=1}} or participated in, an incident involving E. F. Oaten, Professor of History at Presidency.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=48}} Before the incident, it was claimed by the students, Oaten had made rude remarks about Indian culture, and collared and pushed some students; according to Oaten, the students were making an unacceptably loud noise just outside his class.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=48}} A few days later, on 15 February, some students accosted Oaten on a stairway, surrounded him, beat him with sandals, and took to flight.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=48}} An inquiry committee was constituted. Although Oaten, who was unhurt, could not identify his assailants, a college servant testified to seeing Subhas Bose and his classmate [[Ananga Mohan Dam|Ananga Dam]] among those fleeing, confirming for the authorities what they had determined to be the rumour among the students.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=48}} Both Bose and Ananga Dam<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 December 2023 |title=দক্ষিণ শ্রীহট্টের সাধুহাটি গ্রামের বিপ্লবী শ্রী অনঙ্গ মোহন দাম এর জন্ম বার্ষিকী |trans-title=Anniversary of the birth revolutionary Shri Anang Mohan Dam from Sadhuhati village in South Srihatta |url=https://kolkatatribune.in/birth-anniversary-of-sri-ananda-mohan-dam-of-village-shaduhati-in-south-srihatta/ |access-date=25 June 2025 |newspaper=Kolkata Tribune |language=bn }}</ref> were expelled from the college and rusticated from the University of Calcutta.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=49}} The incident shocked Calcutta and caused anguish to Bose's family.{{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=1}} He was ordered back to Cuttack. His family's connections were employed to pressure [[Asutosh Mukherjee]], the Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=49}} Despite this, Subhas Bose's expulsion remained in place until 20 July 1917, when the Syndicate of Calcutta University granted him permission to return, but to another college.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=52}} He joined [[Scottish Church College, Calcutta|Scottish Church College]], receiving his B.A. in 1918 in the [[British undergraduate degree classification#First-class honours|First Class]] with honours in philosophy, placing second among all philosophy students in Calcutta University.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=54}}

[[File:Hindu college calcutta1851.jpg|thumb|left|A photograph (1851) of [[Presidency College, Kolkata|Presidency College]], Calcutta which Subhas Bose entered in 1913, but from which he was expelled in 1916]]

At his father's urging, Subhas Bose agreed to travel to England to prepare and appear for the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Services]] (ICS) examination.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=55}} Arriving in London on 20 October 1919, Subhas readied his application for the ICS.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=55–56}} For his references he put down [[Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha|Lord Sinha of Raipur]], Under Secretary of State for India, and [[Bhupendra Nath Bose|Bhupendranath Basu]], a wealthy Calcutta lawyer who sat on the Council of India in London.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=55}} Bose was eager also to gain admission to a college at the [[University of Cambridge]].{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=56}} It was past the deadline for admission.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=56}} He sought help from some Indian students and from the Non-Collegiate Students Board. The Board offered the university's education at an economical cost without formal admission to a college. Bose [[Matriculation#United Kingdom|entered the register]] of the university on 19 November 1919 and simultaneously set about preparing for the Civil Service exams.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=56}} He chose the Mental and Moral Sciences Tripos at Cambridge,{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=56}} its completion requirement reduced to two years on account of his Indian B. A.{{Sfn|Fay|1995|p=179}}

[[File:Subhas C. Bose 003.jpg|thumb|right|Subhas Bose (standing, right) with friends in England, 1920]]

There were six vacancies in the ICS.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=59}} Subhas Bose took the open competitive exam for them in August 1920 and was placed fourth.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=59}} This was a vital first step.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=59}} Still remaining was a final examination in 1921 on more topics on India, including the [[Indian Penal Code]], the [[Indian Evidence Act]], Indian history, and an Indian language.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=59}} Successful candidates had also to clear a riding test. Having no fear of these subjects and being a rider, Subhas Bose felt the ICS was within easy reach.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=59}} Yet between August 1920 and 1921 he began to have doubts about taking the final examination.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=59–60}} Many letters were exchanged with his father and his brother [[Sarat Chandra Bose]] back in Calcutta.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=60}} In one letter to Sarat, Subhas wrote, <blockquote>"But for a man of my temperament who has been feeding on ideas that might be called eccentric—the line of least resistance is not the best line to follow ... The uncertainties of life are not appalling to one who has not, at heart, worldly ambitions. Moreover, it is not possible to serve one's country in the best and fullest manner if one is chained on to the civil service."{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=60}}</blockquote> In April 1921, Subhas Bose made his decision firm not to take the final examination for the ICS and wrote to Sarat informing him of the same, apologising for the pain he would cause to his father, his mother, and other members of his family.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=61}} On 22 April 1921, he wrote to the [[Secretary of State for India]], [[Edwin Montagu]], stating, "I wish to have my name removed from the list of probationers in the Indian Civil Service."{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=62}} The following day he wrote again to Sarat:<blockquote>I received a letter from mother saying that in spite of what father and others think she prefers the ideals for which Mahatma Gandhi stands. I cannot tell you how happy I have been to receive such a letter. It will be worth a treasure for me as it has removed something like a burden from my mind."{{sfn|Gordon|1990|p=63}}</blockquote>

For some time before Subhas Bose had been in touch with [[C. R. Das]], a lawyer who had risen to the helm of politics in Bengal; Das encouraged Subhas to return to Calcutta.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=62–63}} With the ICS decision now firmly behind him, Subhas Bose took his Cambridge B.A. Final examinations half-heartedly, passing, but being placed in the [[British undergraduate degree classification#Third-class honours|Third Class]].{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=63}} He prepared to sail for India in June 1921, electing for a fellow Indian student to pick up his diploma.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=62–63}}

=== 1921–1932: Indian National Congress ===
[[File:Subhas Bose at inauguration of India Society Prague 1926.jpg|thumb|left|Bose at the inauguration of the India Society in [[Prague]] in 1926]]

Subhas Bose, aged 24, arrived ashore in India at Bombay on the morning of 16 July 1921 and immediately set about arranging an interview with Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi, aged 51, was the leader of the [[Non-cooperation movement (1909–22)|non-cooperation movement]] that had taken India by storm the previous year and in a quarter-century would evolve to secure its independence.{{efn|"Despite any whimsy in implementation, the clarity of Gandhi's political vision and the skill with which he carried the reforms in 1920 provided the foundation for what was to follow: twenty-five years of stewardship over the freedom movement. He knew the hazards to be negotiated. The British must be brought to a point where they would abdicate their rule without terrible destruction, thus assuring that freedom was not an empty achievement. To accomplish this he had to devise means of a moral sort, able to inspire the disciplined participation of millions of Indians, and equal to compelling the British to grant freedom, if not willingly, at least with resignation. Gandhi found his means in non-violent [[satyagraha]]. He insisted that it was not a cowardly form of resistance; rather, it required the most determined kind of courage.{{sfn|Stein|2010|p=297}}}}{{efn|Rt. Hon. [[Clement Attlee|C. R. Attlee]], Prime Minister of Great Britain. Broadcast from London after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, 30 January 1948: "For a quarter of a century, this one man has been the major factor in every consideration of the Indian problem."<ref name=Attlee-Gandhi-1948-1-30>{{citation|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Archives|date=30 January 1948|author=C. R. Attlee|title=Speech on the Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi|location=London, UK|url=https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/india-the-assassination-of-mahatma-gandhi|access-date=30 January 2021|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225183920/https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/india-the-assassination-of-mahatma-gandhi|url-status=live}}</ref>}} Gandhi happened to be in Bombay and agreed to see Bose that afternoon. In Bose's account of the meeting, written many years later, he pilloried Gandhi with question after question.{{sfn|Gordon|1990|p=69}} Bose thought Gandhi's answers were vague, his goals unclear, his plan for achieving them not thought through.{{sfn|Gordon|1990|p=69}} Gandhi and Bose differed in this first meeting on the question of means—for Gandhi non-violent means to any end were non-negotiable; in Bose's thought, all means were acceptable in the service of anti-colonial ends.{{sfn|Gordon|1990|p=69}} They differed on the question of ends—Bose was attracted to totalitarian models of governance, which were anathematised by Gandhi.{{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=2}} According to historian Gordon, "Gandhi, however, set Bose on to the leader of the Congress and Indian nationalism in Bengal, C. R. Das, and in him Bose found the leader whom he sought."{{sfn|Gordon|1990|p=69}} Das was more flexible than Gandhi, more sympathetic to the extremism that had attracted idealistic young men such as Bose in Bengal.{{sfn|Gordon|1990|p=69}} Das launched Bose into nationalist politics.{{sfn|Gordon|1990|p=69}} Bose would work within the ambit of the Indian National Congress politics for nearly 20 years even as he tried to change its course.{{sfn|Gordon|1990|p=69}}

In 1922 Bose founded the newspaper ''Swaraj'' and assumed charge of the publicity for the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee.{{sfn|Toye|2007}} His mentor was [[Chittaranjan Das]], a voice for aggressive nationalism in [[Bengal]]. In 1923, Bose was elected the President of [[Indian Youth Congress]] and also the Secretary of the Bengal State Congress. He became the editor of the newspaper "Forward", which had been founded by [[Chittaranjan Das]].{{sfn|Chakraborty|Bhaṭṭācārya|1989}} Bose worked as the CEO of the [[Calcutta Municipal Corporation]] for Das when the latter was elected mayor of Calcutta in 1924.{{sfn|Vas|2008|p=32}} Das decided to choose Bose as the CEO over [[Birendranath Sasmal]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Majumdar |first=Ramesh Chandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oCFuAAAAMAAJ&q=Birendranath+Sasmal+ceo+of+Calcutta+corporation |title=History of Modern Bengal: 1905-1947 |date=1978 |publisher=G. Bharadwaj |language=en}}</ref> During the same year, when Bose was leading a protest march in Calcutta, he, [[Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi]] and other leaders were arrested and imprisoned.<ref name="Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav">{{cite web|last1=Ministry of Culture|first1=Government of India|title=Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi|url=https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/unsung-heroes-detail.htm?138|website=amritmahotsav.nic.in|access-date=24 February 2022|archive-date=23 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123094444/https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/unsung-heroes-detail.htm?138|url-status=live}}</ref>{{not in source|reason=the source only says that Ajazi was arrested|date=October 2023}} After a roundup of nationalists in 1925, Bose was sent to prison in [[Mandalay]], [[British Burma]], where he contracted [[tuberculosis]].{{sfn|Vipul|2009|p=116}}

[[File:Subhas C. Bose 001.jpg|right|thumb|Subhas Bose (in military uniform) with Congress president, [[Motilal Nehru]] taking the salute. Annual meeting, Indian National Congress, 29 December 1928]]

In 1927, after being released from prison, Bose became general secretary of the Congress party and worked with Jawaharlal Nehru for independence. In late December 1928, Bose organised the Annual Meeting of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=190}} His most memorable role was as [[general officer commanding]] (GOC) Congress Volunteer Corps.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=190}} Author [[Nirad Chaudhuri]] wrote about the meeting: <blockquote>Bose organized a volunteer corps in uniform, its officers were even provided with steel-cut epaulettes ... his uniform was made by a firm of British tailors in Calcutta, Harman's. A telegram addressed to him as GOC was delivered to the British General in [[Fort William, India|Fort William]] and was the subject of a good deal of malicious gossip in the (British Indian) press. Mahatma Gandhi as a sincere pacifist vowed to non-violence, did not like the strutting, clicking of boots, and saluting, and he afterward described the Calcutta session of the Congress as a [[Bertram Mills|Bertram Mills circus]], which caused a great deal of indignation among the Bengalis.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=190}}</blockquote>
A little later, Bose was again arrested and jailed for [[civil disobedience]]; this time he emerged to become [[Mayor of Kolkata|Mayor]] of Calcutta in 1930.{{sfn|Vipul|2009|p=116}}

=== 1933–1937: Illness, Austria, Emilie Schenkl ===
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During the mid-1930s Bose travelled in Europe, visiting Indian students and European politicians, including [[Benito Mussolini]]. He observed party organisation and saw communism and fascism in action.<ref>{{Cite news|date=22 January 2020|first1=Asheeza |last1=Baig |title=Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Birth Anniversary: History and significance|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/more-lifestyle/netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-birth-anniversary-history-and-significance/story-xgLxOijqCfA9gI5EbZyXZI.html|access-date=20 January 2022|newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]]|archive-date=20 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120124817/https://www.hindustantimes.com/more-lifestyle/netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-birth-anniversary-history-and-significance/story-xgLxOijqCfA9gI5EbZyXZI.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In this period, he also researched and wrote the first part of his book ''[[The Indian Struggle]]'', which covered the country's independence movement in the years 1920–1934. Although it was published in London in 1935, the British government banned the book in the colony out of fears that it would encourage unrest.{{sfn|Bose|Bose|1997}} Bose was supported in Europe by the Indian Central European Society organised by [[Otto Faltis]] from Vienna.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Faltis, Otto |year=1936 |title=India and Austria |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.277486/page/n234/mode/1up |journal=The Modern Review |volume=59 |pages=205–207}}</ref>

=== 1937–1940: Indian National Congress ===
In 1938 Bose stated his opinion that the INC "should be organised on the broadest anti-imperialist front with the two-fold objective of winning political freedom and the establishment of a socialist regime."{{sfn|Bose|2004}} By 1938 Bose had become a leader of national stature and agreed to accept nomination as Congress President. He stood for unqualified [[Swaraj]] (self-governance), including the use of force against the British. This meant a confrontation with Mohandas Gandhi, who in fact opposed Bose's presidency,{{sfn|Josh|1992}} splitting the Indian National Congress party.
[[File:Subhas Chandra Bose arrives at Dum Dum aerodrome.jpg|left|thumb|Bose, president-elect, INC, arrives in Calcutta, 24 January 1938, after two-month vacation in Austria.{{efn|"On 4 November 1937, Subhas sent a letter to Emilie in German, saying that he would probably travel to Europe in the middle of November. "Please write to Kurhaus Hochland, Badgastein," he instructed her, "and enquire if I (and you also) can stay there" He asked her to mention this message only to her parents, not to reply, and wait for his next airmail letter or telegram. On 16 November, he sent a cable: "Starting aeroplane arriving Badgastein twenty second arrange lodging and meet me. ... He spent a month and a half—from 22 November 1937, to 8 January 1938—with Emilie at his favourite resort of Badgastein."{{sfn|Bose|2011|p=127}}}}{{efn|"On 26 December 1937, Subhas Chandra Bose secretly married Emilie Schenkl. Despite the obvious anguish, they chose to keep their relationship and marriage a closely guarded secret."{{Sfn|Bose|2011|pp=129–130}}}}]]
Bose attempted to maintain unity, but Gandhi advised Bose to form his own cabinet. The rift also divided Bose and Nehru; he appeared at the 1939 Congress meeting on a stretcher. He was elected president again over Gandhi's preferred candidate [[Pattabhi Sitaramayya]].{{sfn|Chattopadhyay|1989}} [[U. Muthuramalingam Thevar]] strongly supported Bose in the intra-Congress dispute. Thevar mobilised all south India votes for Bose.{{sfn|Phadnis|2009|p=185}} However, due to the manoeuvrings of the Gandhi-led clique in the Congress Working Committee, Bose found himself forced to resign from the Congress presidency.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}

On 22 June 1939 Bose organised the [[All India Forward Bloc]] a faction within the Indian National Congress,{{sfn|Padhy|2011|p=234}} aimed at consolidating the political left, but its main strength was in his home state, Bengal. U Muthuramalingam Thevar, who was a staunch supporter of Bose from the beginning, joined the Forward Bloc. When Bose visited Madurai on 6 September, Thevar organised a massive rally as his reception.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}

When Subhas Chandra Bose was heading to Madurai, on an invitation of [[Muthuramalinga Thevar]] to amass support for the Forward Bloc, he passed through Madras and spent three days at Gandhi Peak.
His correspondence reveals that despite his clear dislike for British subjugation, he was deeply impressed by their methodical and systematic approach and their steadfastly disciplinarian outlook towards life. In England, he exchanged ideas on the future of India with British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] leaders and political thinkers like [[Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax|Lord Halifax]], [[George Lansbury]], [[Clement Attlee]], [[Arthur Greenwood]], [[Harold Laski]], [[J.B.S. Haldane]], [[Ivor Jennings]], [[G.D.H. Cole]], [[Gilbert Murray]] and Sir [[Stafford Cripps]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}
[[File:Bose AICC meeting 1939.jpg|thumb|right|Bose arriving at the 1939 annual session of the Congress, where he was re-elected, but later had to resign after disagreements with Gandhi and the Congress High Command]]
He came to believe that an independent India needed socialist authoritarianism, on the lines of Turkey's [[Kemal Atatürk]], for at least two decades. For political reasons Bose was refused permission by the British authorities to meet Atatürk at [[Ankara]]. During his sojourn in England Bose tried to schedule appointments with several politicians, but only the Labour Party and [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politicians agreed to meet with him. [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] officials refused to meet him or show him courtesy because he was a politician coming from a colony. In the 1930s leading figures in the Conservative Party had opposed even [[Dominion]] status for India. It was during the Labour Party government of 1945–1951, with Attlee as the Prime Minister, that India gained independence.

On the outbreak of war, 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. Having failed to persuade Gandhi of the necessity of this, Bose organised mass protests in Calcutta calling for the removal of the [[Black Hole of Calcutta#Monument to the victims|"Holwell Monument"]], which then stood at the corner of [[Dalhousie Square]] in memoriam of those who died in the [[Black Hole of Calcutta]].{{sfn|Sen|1999}} He was thrown in jail by the British, but was released following a seven-day hunger strike. Bose's house in Calcutta was kept under surveillance by the [[Criminal Investigation Department|CID]].{{sfn|Durga Das Pvt. Ltd|1985}}

=== 1941: Escape to Nazi Germany ===
[[File:Wanderer BLA.jpg|thumb|The Wanderer car Bose used to escape from his Calcutta home in 1941]]
Bose's arrest and subsequent release set the scene for his escape to Nazi Germany, via [[Afghanistan]] and the Soviet Union. A few days before his escape, he sought solitude and, on this pretext, avoided meeting British guards and grew a beard. Late night 16 January 1941, the night of his escape, he dressed as a [[Pathan]] (brown long coat, a black fez-type coat and broad pyjamas) to avoid being identified. Bose escaped from under British surveillance from his Elgin Road house in Calcutta on the night of 17 January 1941, accompanied by his nephew [[Sisir Kumar Bose]], later reaching Gomoh Railway Station (now [[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Gomoh railway station|Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Gomoh Station]]) in the then state of Bihar (now [[Jharkhand]]), India.{{sfn|Loiwal|2017a}}{{sfn|Loiwal|2017b}}{{sfn|Talwar|1976}}{{sfn|Markandeya|1990}}

Bose journeyed to [[Peshawar]] with the help of the [[Abwehr]], where he was met by Akbar Shah, Mohammed Shah and [[Bhagat Ram Talwar]]. Bose was taken to the home of Abad Khan, a trusted friend of Akbar Shah's. On 26 January 1941, Bose began his journey to reach Russia through [[British India]]'s [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955)|North West frontier]] with Afghanistan. For this reason, he enlisted the help of Mian Akbar Shah, then a Forward Bloc leader in the North-West Frontier Province. Shah had been out of India en route to the Soviet Union and suggested a novel disguise for Bose to assume. Since Bose could not speak [[Pashto language|Pashto]], it would have made him an easy target of Pashto speakers working for the British. For this reason, Shah suggested that Bose act deaf and dumb, and let his beard grow to mimic those of the tribesmen. Bose's guide [[Bhagat Ram Talwar]], unknown to him, was a Soviet agent.{{sfn|Talwar|1976}}{{sfn|Markandeya|1990}}{{sfn|James|1997|p=554}}

Supporters of the [[Aga Khan III]] helped him across the border into [[Afghanistan]] where he was met by an Abwehr unit posing as a party of road construction engineers from the [[Organization Todt]] who then aided his passage across Afghanistan via [[Kabul]] to the border with the [[Soviet Union]]. After assuming the guise of a [[Pashtun people|Pashtun]] insurance agent ("Ziaudddin") to reach Afghanistan, Bose changed his guise and travelled to Moscow on the Italian passport of an Italian nobleman "Count Orlando Mazzotta". From Moscow, he reached [[Rome]], and from there he travelled to [[Nazi Germany]].{{sfn|Talwar|1976}}{{sfn|Markandeya|1990}}{{sfn|Thomson|2004}} Once in Russia the [[NKVD]] transported Bose to [[Moscow]] where he hoped that Russia's historical enmity to British rule in India would result in support for his plans for a popular rising in India. However, Bose found the Soviets' response disappointing and was rapidly passed over to the German Ambassador in Moscow, [[Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg|Count von der Schulenburg]]. He had Bose flown on to [[Berlin]] in a special courier aircraft at the beginning of April where he was to receive a more favourable hearing from [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]] and the Foreign Ministry officials at the [[Wilhelmstrasse]].{{sfn|Talwar|1976}}{{sfn|Markandeya|1990}}{{sfn|Majumdar|1997|pp=10–14}}

=== 1941–1943: Collaboration with Nazi Germany ===
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In Germany, Bose was attached to the [[Special Bureau for India]] under [[Adam von Trott zu Solz]] which was responsible for broadcasting on the German-sponsored [[Azad Hind Radio]].{{sfn|Encyclopædia Britannica|2016}} He founded the Free India Centre in Berlin and created the [[Indian Legion]] (consisting of some 4500 soldiers) out of Indian prisoners of war who had previously fought for the British in [[North African Campaign|North Africa]] prior to their capture by Axis forces. The Indian Legion was attached to the Wehrmacht, and later transferred to the [[Waffen SS]]. Its members swore the following allegiance to Hitler and Bose: "I swear by God this holy oath that I will obey the leader of the German race and state, [[Adolf Hitler]], as the commander of the German armed forces in the fight for India, whose leader is Subhas Chandra Bose". This oath clearly abrogated control of the Indian legion to the German armed forces whilst stating Bose's overall leadership of India. He was also, however, prepared to envisage an invasion of India via the USSR by Nazi troops, spearheaded by the [[Indische Legion|Azad Hind Legion]]; many have questioned his judgment here, as it seems unlikely that the Germans could have been easily persuaded to leave after such an invasion, which might also have resulted in an Axis victory in the War.{{sfn|Thomson|2004}}

Soon, according to historian Romain Hayes, "the (German) Foreign Office procured a luxurious residence for (Bose) along with a butler, cook, gardener, and an SS-chauffeured car. Emilie Schenkl moved in openly with him. The Germans, aware of the nature of the relationship, refrained from any involvement."{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|p=67}} However, most of the staff in the [[Special Bureau for India]], which had been set up to aid Bose, did not get along with Emilie.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=446}} In particular [[Adam von Trott zu Solz|Adam von Trott]], Alexander Werth and Freda Kretschemer, according to historian [[Leonard A. Gordon]], "appear to have disliked her intensely. They believed that she and Bose were not married and that she was using her liaison with Bose to live an especially comfortable life during the hard times of war" and that differences were compounded by issues of class.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=446}} In November 1942, Schenkl gave birth to their daughter.

The Germans were unwilling to form an alliance with Bose because they considered him unpopular in comparison with Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.<ref name=visionideas>{{cite book|title=Subhash Chandra Bose: A Biography of His Vision and Ideas|quote=[[Ernst Woermann|Woermann]] recommended the indefinite postponing of any announcement of Bose's presence in Germany and cautioned the Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that the time had not yet come to recognise Bose's government in-exile. Woermann specifically feared that any such step would alienate both Gandhi and Nehru, the real leaders of Indian nationalism, and the representatives of the political forces with which Germany would have to deal when her army reached the Khyber Pass.|publisher=Deep & Deep Publications|author=Virender Grover|page=408|year=1998|isbn=9788176290050|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HYwAQAAIAAJ|access-date=21 February 2023|archive-date=21 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221074409/https://books.google.com/books?id=0HYwAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|pp=111}} By the spring of 1942, the German army was [[Eastern Front (World War II)#Don, Volga, and Caucasus: Summer 1942|mired in the USSR]]. Bose, due to disappointment over the lack of response from Nazi Germany, was now keen to move to Southeast Asia, where Japan had just won quick victories. However, he still expected official recognition from Nazi Germany. [[Adolf Hitler]] during his only meeting with Bose in late May 1942 refused to entertain Bose's requests and facilitated him with a submarine voyage to East Asia.{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|pp=114–116}}<ref name="Ashis">{{cite book | author=Ashis Ray | title=Laid to Rest: The Controversy over Subhas Chandra Bose's Death | publisher=Roli Books | year=2018 | isbn=978-81-936260-5-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=raohEAAAQBAJ | page=55 | access-date=21 February 2023 | archive-date=21 February 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221074411/https://books.google.com/books?id=raohEAAAQBAJ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Dunphy">{{cite book | author=John J. Dunphy | title=Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials: The Investigative Work of the U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group, 1945-1947 | publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers | year=2018 | isbn=978-1-4766-3337-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tt8DwAAQBAJ | page=116 | access-date=21 February 2023 | archive-date=12 July 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230712061753/https://books.google.com/books?id=6tt8DwAAQBAJ | url-status=live }}</ref>

In February 1943, Bose left Schenkl and their baby daughter and boarded a German submarine to travel, via transfer to a Japanese submarine, to Japanese-occupied southeast Asia. In all, 3,000 Indian prisoners of war signed up for the Free India Legion. But instead of being delighted, Bose was worried. A left-wing admirer of Russia, he was devastated when Hitler's tanks rolled across the Soviet border. Matters were worsened by the fact that the now-retreating German army would be in no position to offer him help in driving the British from India. When he met Hitler in May 1942, his suspicions were confirmed, and he came to believe that the Nazi leader was more interested in using his men to win propaganda victories than military ones. So, in February 1943, Bose boarded a German [[U-boat]] and left for Japan. This left the men he had recruited leaderless and demoralised in Germany.{{sfn|Thomson|2004}}{{sfn|Hauner|1981|pp=28–29}}

=== 1943–1945: Japanese-occupied Asia ===
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[[File:19430428 japanese submarine crew i-29.png|left|thumb|The crew of Japanese submarine I-29 after the rendezvous with German submarine U-180 300 sm southeast of [[Madagascar]]; Bose is sitting in the front row (28 April 1943)]]

In 1943, after being disillusioned that Germany could be of any help in gaining India's independence, Bose left for Japan. He travelled with the German submarine [[U-180]] around the [[Cape of Good Hope]] to the southeast of Madagascar, where he was transferred to the {{Jsub|I-29||2}} for the rest of the journey to [[Imperial Japan]]. This was the only civilian transfer between two submarines of two different navies in World War II.{{sfn|Talwar|1976}}{{sfn|Markandeya|1990}}

The [[Indian National Army]] (INA) was the brainchild of Japanese Major (and post-war Lieutenant-General) [[Iwaichi Fujiwara]], head of the Japanese intelligence unit [[Fujiwara Kikan]]. Fujiwara's mission was "to raise an army which would fight alongside the Japanese army."{{Sfn|Fay|1995|pp=74–75}}{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=21–23}} He first met [[Giani Pritam Singh Dhillon|Pritam Singh Dhillon]], the president of the [[Bangkok]] chapter of the [[Indian Independence League]], and through Pritam Singh's network recruited a captured British Indian army captain, [[General Mohan Singh|Mohan Singh]], on the western [[Malayan peninsula]] in December 1941. The [[First Indian National Army]] was formed as a result of discussion between Fujiwara and Mohan Singh in the second half of December 1941, and the name chosen jointly by them in the first week of January 1942.{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=24–25}}

This was along the concept of, and with support of, what was then known as the [[Indian Independence League]] headed from Tokyo by expatriate nationalist leader [[Rash Behari Bose]]. The first INA was however disbanded in December 1942 after disagreements between the [[Hikari Kikan]] and Mohan Singh, who came to believe that the Japanese High Command was using the INA as a mere pawn and propaganda tool. Singh was taken into custody and the troops returned to the prisoner-of-war camp. However, the idea of an independence army was revived with the arrival of Subhas Chandra Bose in the Far East in 1943. In July, at a meeting in Singapore, Rash Behari Bose handed over control of the organisation to Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose was able to reorganise the fledgling army and organise massive support among the expatriate Indian population in south-east Asia, who lent their support by both enlisting in the Indian National Army, as well as financially in response to Bose's calls for sacrifice for the independence cause. INA had a separate women's unit, the [[Rani of Jhansi Regiment]] (named after Rani [[Lakshmi Bai]]) headed by Capt. [[Lakshmi Sahgal|Lakshmi Swaminathan]], which is seen as a first of its kind in Asia.{{sfn|Bose|2002}}{{sfn|Tarique}}

[[File:Azad Hind Currency.jpg|thumb|right|Currency issued by the [[Azad Hind Bank]] with Bose's portrait]]
Even when faced with military reverses, Bose was able to maintain support for the [[Azad Hind]] movement. Spoken as a part of a motivational speech for the Indian National Army at a rally of Indians in [[Burma]] on 4 July 1944, Bose's most famous quote was "Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom!" In this, he urged the people of India to join him in his fight against the British Raj.{{Citation needed|date=December 2014}} Spoken in Hindi, Bose's words are highly evocative. The troops of the INA were under the aegis of a provisional government, the Azad Hind Government, which came to produce its own currency, postage stamps, court and civil code, and was recognised by nine Axis states—Germany, Japan, [[Italian Social Republic]], the [[Independent State of Croatia]], the [[Wang Jingwei regime]] in [[Nanjing]], China, a provisional government of Burma, [[Manchukuo]] and Japanese-controlled [[Philippines]]. Of those countries, five were authorities established under Axis occupation. This government participated in the so-called [[Greater East Asia Conference]] as an observer in November 1943.{{sfn|Goto|Kratoska|2003|pp=57–58}}

The INA's first commitment was in the Japanese thrust towards Eastern Indian frontiers of [[Manipur]]. INA's special forces, the [[Bahadur Group]], were involved in operations behind enemy lines both during the diversionary attacks in Arakan, as well as the Japanese thrust towards [[Imphal]] and [[Kohima]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=16 June 2019|title=It is forgotten that the toughest land battle of the Second World War was fought on Indian soil|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/subhash-chandra-bose-battle-of-kohima-world-war-2-japan-germany-indian-national-army-a-forgotten-battle-5782571/|access-date=20 January 2022|website=The Indian Express|archive-date=20 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120125011/https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/subhash-chandra-bose-battle-of-kohima-world-war-2-japan-germany-indian-national-army-a-forgotten-battle-5782571/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Subhas Chandra 1943 Tokyo.jpg|thumb|left|Bose speaking in Tokyo in 1943]]
The [[Japanese occupation of the Andaman Islands|Japanese also took possession of Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] in 1942 and a year later, the Provisional Government and the INA were established in the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] with Lt Col. [[Arcot Doraiswamy Loganadan]] appointed its Governor General. The islands were renamed ''Shaheed'' (Martyr) and ''Swaraj'' (Independence). However, the Japanese Navy remained in essential control of the island's administration. During Bose's only visit to the islands in early 1944, apparently in the interest of shielding Bose from attaining a full knowledge of ultimate Japanese intentions, his Japanese hosts carefully isolated him from the local population. At that time the island's Japanese administration had been torturing the leader of the island's Indian Independence League, [[Diwan Singh]], who later died of his injuries in the [[Cellular Jail]]. During Bose's visit to the islands several locals attempted to alert Bose to Singh's plight, but apparently without success. During this time Loganathan became aware of his lack of any genuine administrative control and resigned in protest as Governor General, later returning to the Government's headquarters in Rangoon.{{sfn|Singh|p=249}}{{Sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p=325}}

On the Indian mainland, an Indian Tricolour flag, modelled after that of the Indian National Congress, was raised for the first time in the town of [[Moirang]], in [[Manipur]], in north-eastern India. The adjacent towns of Kohima and Imphal were then encircled and placed under siege by divisions of the Japanese Army, working in conjunction with the Burmese National Army, and with Brigades of the INA, known as the Gandhi and Nehru Brigades. This attempt at conquering the Indian mainland had the Axis codename of [[Operation U-Go]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}

During this operation, on 6 July 1944, in a speech broadcast by the [[Azad Hind Radio]] from Singapore, Bose addressed Mahatma Gandhi as the "Father of the Nation" and asked for his blessings and good wishes for the war he was fighting. This was the first time that Gandhi was referred to by this appellation.<ref>"Father of Our Nation" (Address to Mahatma Gandhi over the Rangoon Radio on 6 July 1944) {{harvnb|Bose|Bose|1997a|pp=301–302}}</ref> The protracted Japanese attempts to take these two towns depleted Japanese resources, with Operation U-Go ultimately proving unsuccessful. Through several months of Japanese onslaught on these two towns, Commonwealth forces remained entrenched in the towns. Commonwealth forces then counter-attacked, inflicting serious losses on the Axis led forces, who were then forced into a retreat back into Burmese territory. After the Japanese defeat at the battles of Kohima and Imphal, Bose's Provisional Government's aim of establishing a base in mainland India was lost forever.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}

Still the INA fought in key battles against the British Indian Army in Burmese territory, notable in Meiktilla, [[Mandalay]], [[Pegu]], Nyangyu and [[Mount Popa]]. However, with the fall of [[Rangoon]], Bose's government ceased to be an effective political entity.{{Citation needed|date=December 2014}} A large proportion of the INA troops surrendered under Lt Col Loganathan. The remaining troops retreated with Bose towards [[British Malaya|Malaya]] or made for [[Thailand]]. Japan's surrender at the end of the war also led to the surrender of the remaining elements of the Indian National Army. The INA prisoners were then repatriated to India and some [[INA trials|tried for treason]].<ref name="White-Spunner 2017 p. 13">{{cite book | last=White-Spunner | first=B. | title=Partition: The story of Indian independence and the creation of Pakistan in 1947 | publisher=Simon & Schuster UK | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-4711-4802-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wx9DQAAQBAJ&pg=PR13 | page=13 | archive-date=20 March 2024 | access-date=20 March 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320043444/https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wx9DQAAQBAJ&pg=PR13 | url-status=live }}</ref>

=== 18 August 1945: Death ===

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Subhas Chandra Bose died on 18 August 1945 from third-degree burns after his airplane crashed in [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Japanese-ruled Formosa]] (now [[Taiwan]]).{{sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p=2}}{{sfn|Bandyopadhyay|2004|p=427}}<ref name=dod-combined>* {{citation|last=Bandyopadhyay|first=Sekhar|author-link=Sekhar Bandyopadhyay|title=From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India|location=Hyderabad and Delhi|publisher=Orient Longmans|year=2004|isbn=81-250-2596-0|ref=none<!--avoid conflicting targets-->|page=427|quote=The Japanese agreed to provide him transport up to Manchuria from where he could travel to Russia. But on his way, on 18 August 1945 at Taihoku airport in Taiwan, he died in an air crash, which many Indians still believe never happened.}}
* {{citation|last=Gilbert|first=Martin|title=The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War|edition=2nd|publisher=Routledge|year=2009|isbn=978-0-415-55289-9|page=227|quote=Bose died in a plane crash off Taiwan, while being flown to Tokyo on 18 August 1945, aged 48. For many millions of Indians, especially in Bengal, he remains a revered figure}}
* {{citation|last=Huff|first=Gregg|title=World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2020|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=waECEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR26|page=xvi|isbn=978-1-107-09933-3|lccn=2020022973|quote=Chronology of World War II in the Pacific: '''18 August 1945''' Subhas Chandra Bose killed in a plane crash in Taiwan.|access-date=28 January 2022|archive-date=12 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230712062303/https://books.google.com/books?id=waECEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR26|url-status=live}}
* {{citation|last=Satoshi|first=Nakano|title=Japan's Colonial Moment in Southeast Asia 1942–1945: The Occupiers' Experience|page=211|publisher=Routledge|location=London and New York|isbn=978-1-138-54128-3 |lccn=2018026197|year=2012|quote=18 August 1945. Upon hearing of Japan's defeat in the Pacific War, Chandra Bose, who had dedicated his life to the anti-British Indian independence struggle, immediately decided to head for the Soviet Union, "out of my commitment to ally with any country that regards the US and Britain as their enemies." The Japanese Foreign Ministry and the military cooperated in Bose's exile, placing him aboard a Japanese plane headed for Dalian (Yunnan) from Saigon to put him in touch with the Soviet army. After a stopover in Taipei, however, the passenger plane crashed immediately after takeoff. Despite freeing himself from the wreckage, Bose was engulfed in flames and breathed his last.}}
* {{citation|last1=Blackburn|first1=Kevin|last2=Hack|first2=Karl|title=War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore|location=Singapore|publisher=NUS Press, National University of Singapore|year=2012|isbn=978-9971-69-599-6|page=185|quote=Even before the INA memorial was completed, it became the focus of mourning for Singapore's Indian community. The cause of this premature use was news that Bose had died in a plane crash at Taipei, on 18 August. He had been trying to escape capture after the surrender of Japan on 15 August. Singapore and Malaya remained under Japanese control until 5 September when British forces returned. On 26 August 1945, meanwhile, wreaths were laid at the INA memorial in honour of Bose. A large group gathered at the memorial and speeches on Bose's life were made by Major-General M.Z. Kiani and Major-General S.C. Alagappan of the INA, and ITL members. The Japanese newspaper, the Syonan Shimbun, reported that "during the ceremony which lacked nothing in solemnity and dignity, many husky warriors—Sikhs, Punjabis, and others from the Central Provinces—soldiers who had taken part in the actual war operations were seen to shed tears as they saluted for the last time a giant portrait of Netaji which occupied a prominent position in front of the War Memorial".}}
* {{citation|editor1-last=Sandler|editor1-first=Stanley|chapter=Bose, Subhas Chandra (1897–1945)|title=World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia|year=2001|page=185|publisher=Garland Publishing/Routledge|isbn=0-8153-1883-9|quote=Even after the Japanese surrender, Bose was determined to carry on the Free India movement and planned to return to the Subcontinent, despite his renegade status among the British. But on August 18, 1945, the airplane carrying him from Darien to Manchukuo crashed on take off from an airfield in Formosa, and Bose was killed.}}
* {{citation|last=Bennet|first=Brad|chapter=Bose, Subhas Chandra (1897–1945)|editor1-last=Powers|editor1-first=Roger S.|editor2-last=Vogele|editor2-first=William B.|title=Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage|location=London and New York|publisher=Routledge|year=1997|isbn=0-8153-0913-9|page=48|quote='''Bose, Subhas Chandra (1897–1945)''': Charismatic socialist member of the Indian National Congress and radical anti-imperialist. Bose was born on January 23, 1897, in Cuttack, Bengal, India, and was killed in a plane crash on August 18, 1945.}}
* {{citation|last=Markovits|first=Claude|title=India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000|year=2021|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=xix|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAEbEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR19|isbn=978-1-107-18675-0|lccn=2021000608|doi=10.1017/9781316899847|s2cid=233601747|quote=Chronology 1945: Indian Army play a major role in the liberation of Burma and Malaya from Japanese occupation; Indian troops sent to receive Japanese capitulation in the Dutch East Indies involved in clashes in Surabaya with Indonesian nationalists opposed to the return of the Dutch; in Indochina, Indian troops help the French re-establish control over Saigon and the south of Vietnam; death of Subhas Bose in a plane crash in Taiwan.|doi-access=free|access-date=28 January 2022|archive-date=12 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230712061753/https://books.google.com/books?id=aAEbEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR19|url-status=live}}
* {{citation|last1=Bayly|first1=Christopher|author-link1=Christopher Alan Bayly|last2=Harper|first2=Timothy|title=Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0M4Pl_VCExgC|year=2007|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|isbn=978-0-674-02153-2|page=2|ref=none|quote=If all else failed (Bose) wanted to become a prisoner of the Soviets: 'They are the only ones who will resist the British. My fate is with them. But as the Japanese plane took off from Taipei airport its engines faltered and then failed. Bose was badly burned in the crash. According to several witnesses, he died on 18 August in a Japanese military hospital, talking to the very last of India's freedom. British and Indian commissions later established convincingly that Bose had died in Taiwan. These were legendary and apocalyptic times, however. Having witnessed the first Indian leader to fight against the British since the great mutiny of 1857, many in both Southeast Asia and India refused to accept the loss of their hero. Rumours that Bose had survived and was waiting to come out of hiding and begin the final struggle for independence were rampant by the end of 1945.}}</ref><ref name=gordon-bose-death>{{citation|last=Gordon|first=Leonard A.|author-link=Leonard A. Gordon|title=Brothers Against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalists Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose|location=New York and Oxford|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=1990|isbn=0-231-07443-3|pages=539–542|ref=none|quote=On the plane were: Bose, Shidei, Rahman. Also: Lt. Col. Tadeo Sakai; Lt. Col. Shiro Nonogaki; Major Taro Kono; Major Ihaho Takahashi, Capt. Keikichi Arai, an air force engineer; chief pilot Major Takizawa; co-pilot W/O Ayoagi; navigator Sergeant Okishta; radio-operator NCO Tominaga. The crew was in the front of the aircraft and the passengers were wedged in behind ... there were no proper seats on this aircraft. The plane finally took off (from Saigon) between 5:00 and 5:30 pm on August 17. Since they were so late in starting, the pilot decided to land for the night at Tourane, Vietnam. ... The take-off from Tourane at about 5:00 am was normal ... and they flew to Taipei (Japanese: Taihoku) ...At Taipei ... the crew and passengers took their places ... and they were ready to go at 2:30. ... Just as they left the ground—barely thirty meters up and near the edge of the airfield—there was a loud noise. ... With an enormous crash they hit the ground. ... The injured, including Bose and Rahman and the surviving Japanese officers, were taken to Nanmon Army Hospital. Ground personnel at the airfield had already called the hospital shortly before 3:00 pm and notified Dr. Taneyoshi Yoshimi, the surgeon in charge of the hospital, to prepare to receive the injured. ... Upon arrival the doctor noticed that Bose ... had third degree burns all over his body, but they were worst on his chest. ...Bose and Rahman were quickly taken to the treatment room and the doctor started working on Bose, the much more critically injured man. Dr Yoshimi was assisted by Dr. Tsuruta. ... An orderly, Kazuo Mitsui, an army private, was also in the room, and several nurses were also assisting. ... Bose's condition worsened as the evening darkened. His heart grew weaker. Finally between 9.00 and 10.00 pm, Bose succumbed to his terrible burns.}}</ref> However, many among his supporters, especially in Bengal, refused at the time, and have refused since, to believe either the fact or the circumstances of his death.{{sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p=2}}{{Sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p=22}}{{Sfn|Wolpert|2000|pp=339–340}} Conspiracy theories appeared within hours of his death and have persisted thereafter,{{sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p=2}}{{efn|"Rumours that Bose had survived and was waiting to come out of hiding and begin the final struggle for independence were rampant by the end of 1945."{{sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p=2}}}} keeping alive various martial myths about Bose.{{sfn|Metcalf|Metcalf|2012|p=210}}

In [[Taipei|Taihoku]], at around 2:30{{nbsp}}pm as the bomber with Bose on board was leaving the standard path taken by aircraft during take-off, the passengers inside heard a loud sound, similar to an engine backfiring.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=540}}{{Sfn|Fay|1995|p=384}} The mechanics on the tarmac saw something fall out of the plane.{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=196–197}} It was the portside engine, or a part of it, and the propeller.{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=196–197}}{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=540}} The plane swung wildly to the right and plummeted, crashing, breaking into two, and exploding into flames.{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=196–197}}{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=540}} Inside, the chief pilot, copilot and Lieutenant-General [[Tsunamasa Shidei]], the Vice Chief of Staff of the Japanese Kwantung Army, who was to have made the negotiations for Bose with the Soviet army in Manchuria,{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=195–196}} were instantly killed.{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=196–197}}{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=541}} Bose's assistant [[Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan|Habibur Rahman]] was stunned, passing out briefly, and Bose, although conscious and not fatally hurt, was soaked in gasoline.{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=196–197}} When Rahman came to, he and Bose attempted to leave by the rear door, but found it blocked by the luggage.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=541}} They then decided to run through the flames and exit from the front.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=541}} The ground staff, now approaching the plane, saw two people staggering towards them, one of whom had become a human torch.{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=196–197}} The human torch turned out to be Bose, whose gasoline-soaked clothes had instantly ignited.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=541}} Rahman and a few others managed to smother the flames, but also noticed that Bose's face and head appeared badly burned.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=541}} According to Joyce Chapman Lebra, "A truck which served as ambulance rushed Bose and the other passengers to the Nanmon Military Hospital south of Taihoku."{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=196–197}} The airport personnel called Dr. Taneyoshi Yoshimi, the surgeon-in-charge at the hospital at around 3{{nbsp}}pm.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=541}} Bose was conscious and mostly coherent when they reached the hospital, and for some time thereafter.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=541–542}} Bose was naked, except for a blanket wrapped around him, and Dr. Yoshimi immediately saw evidence of third-degree burns on many parts of the body, especially on his chest, doubting very much that he would live.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=541–542}} Dr. Yoshimi promptly began to treat Bose and was assisted by Dr. Tsuruta.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=541–542}} According to historian [[Leonard A. Gordon]], who interviewed all the hospital personnel later,

<blockquote>A disinfectant, [[Ethacridine lactate|Rivamol]] {{sic}}, was put over most of his body and then a white ointment was applied and he was bandaged over most of his body. Dr. Yoshimi gave Bose four injections of [[Camphor#Medicinal uses|Vita Camphor]] and two of [[Digitalis#Cardiac|Digitamine]] for his weakened heart. These were given about every 30 minutes. Since his body had lost fluids quickly upon being burnt, he was also given [[Ringer's solution|Ringer solution]] intravenously. A third doctor, Dr. Ishii gave him a blood transfusion. An orderly, Kazuo Mitsui, an army private, was in the room and several nurses were also assisting. Bose still had a clear head which Dr. Yoshimi found remarkable for someone with such severe injuries.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=542}}</blockquote>

Soon, in spite of the treatment, Bose went into a coma.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=542}}{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=196–197}} A few hours later, between 9 and 10&nbsp;pm (local time) on Saturday, 18 August 1945, Bose died aged 48.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=542}}{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=196–197}}

Bose's body was cremated in the main Taihoku crematorium two days later, 20 August 1945.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=543}} On 23 August 1945, the Japanese news agency Do Trzei announced the death of Bose and Shidea.{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=196–197}} On 7 September a Japanese officer, Lieutenant Tatsuo Hayashida, carried Bose's ashes to Tokyo, and the following morning they were handed to the president of the Tokyo Indian Independence League, Rama Murti.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=544–545}} On 14 September a memorial service was held for Bose in Tokyo and a few days later the ashes were turned over to the priest of the [[Renkōji Temple]] of [[Nichiren Buddhism]] in Tokyo.{{Sfn|Lebra|2008a|pp=197–198}}{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=545}} There they have remained ever since.{{Sfn|Gordon|1990|p=545}}

Among the INA personnel, there was widespread disbelief, shock, and trauma. Most affected were the young Tamil Indians from Malaya and Singapore, both men and women, who comprised the bulk of the civilians who had enlisted in the INA.{{Sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p = 21}} The professional soldiers in the INA, most of whom were Punjabis, faced an uncertain future, with many fatalistically expecting reprisals from the British.{{Sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p = 21}} In India the Indian National Congress's official line was succinctly expressed in a letter Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi wrote to [[Rajkumari Amrit Kaur]].{{Sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p = 21}} Said Gandhi, "Subhas Bose has died well. He was undoubtedly a patriot, though misguided."{{Sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p = 21}} Many congressmen had not forgiven Bose for quarrelling with Gandhi and for collaborating with what they considered was [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] fascism. The Indian soldiers in the British Indian army, some two and a half million of whom had fought during the [[Second World War]], were conflicted about the INA. Some saw the INA as traitors and wanted them punished; others felt more sympathetic. The British Raj, though never seriously threatened by the INA, tried 300 INA officers for treason in the [[INA trials]], but eventually backtracked.{{Sfn|Bayly|Harper|2007|p = 21}}

== Ideology ==
{{See also|Political views of Subhas Chandra Bose}}
Subhas Chandra Bose believed that the [[Bhagavad Gita]] was a great source of inspiration for the struggle against the British.{{sfn|Narangoa|Cribb|2003}} [[Swami Vivekananda]]'s teachings on universalism, his nationalist thoughts and his emphasis on social service and reform had all inspired Subhas Chandra Bose from his very young days. The fresh interpretation of India's ancient scriptures had appealed immensely to him.{{sfn|Bose|Werth|Jog|Ayer|1996}} Some scholars think that Hindu spirituality formed an essential part of his political and social thought.{{sfn|Chaudhuri|1987}} As historian Leonard Gordon explains "Inner religious explorations continued to be a part of his adult life. This set him apart from the slowly growing number of atheistic socialists and communists who dotted the Indian landscape."{{sfn|Gordon|1990}}

Bose first expressed his preference for "a synthesis of what modern Europe calls [[socialism]] and [[fascism]]" in a 1930 speech in Calcutta.{{sfn|Pasricha|2008|pp=64–65}}
Bose later criticised Nehru's 1933 statement that there is "no middle road" between [[communism]] and fascism, describing it as "fundamentally wrong". Bose believed communism would not gain ground in India due to its rejection of nationalism and religion and suggested a "synthesis between communism and fascism" could take hold instead.{{sfn|Bose|2011|p=98}} In 1944, Bose similarly stated, "Our philosophy should be a synthesis between [[National Socialism]] and communism."{{sfn|Shanker Kapoor|2017}}

===Authoritarianism===

Bose believed that authoritarianism could bring liberation and reconstruction of Indian society.<ref>{{citation|last=Deka|first=Meeta|title=Women's Agency and Social Change: Assam and Beyond|series=SAGE Studies on India's North East|year=2013|location=New Delhi and Thousand Oaks, CA|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-81-321-1138-2|quote=(pp. 134–135) Bose was convinced that his ideology could bring about the liberation of India and a total reconstruction of Indian society along authoritarian-socialist lines, envisaging gender equality therein. As mayor of Calcutta, he believed that his policy and programme was a synthesis of socialism and fascism, on the lines of modern Europe. In the early 1930s, he stated, 'We have here the justice, the equality, the love, which is the basis of Socialism as it stands in Europe today.' In the late 1930s, he reiterated his belief in the efficacy of authoritarian government and a synthesis of fascism and socialism, while in 1944 when addressing the students at Tokyo University, he asserted that India must have a political system 'of an authoritarian character ... [and] our philosophy should be a synthesis between National Socialism and Communism'.}}</ref> He expressed admiration for the authoritarian methods which he saw in Italy and Germany during the 1930s; he thought they could be used to build an independent India.{{sfn|Sen|1999}}

To a large number of Congress leaders, Bose programme shared enough similarities with Japanese fascists.{{sfn|Stein|2010|pp=345}} After getting marginalised within Congress, Bose chose to embrace fascist regimes as allies against the British and fled India.{{sfn|Metcalf|Metcalf|2012|p=210}}<ref name=Louro-bose/> Bose believed that India "must have a political system—State—of an authoritarian character," and "a strong central government with dictatorial powers for some years to come".<ref>{{citation|last=Harrison|first=Selig S.|title=India: The Most Dangerous Decades|series=Princeton Legacy Library|location=Princeton, NJ|publisher=Princeton University Press|page=314|isbn= |lccn=60005749 |year=1960|quote=The most categorical and unabashed program for dictatorship in India's political heritage, finally, was laid down by the late Subhas Chandra Bose. He argued that India "must have a political system—State—of an authoritarian character," "a strong central government with dictatorial powers for some years to come," "a government by a strong party bound together by military discipline ... as the only means of holding India together." The next phase in world history, Bose predicted, would produce "a synthesis between Communism and Fascism, and will it be a surprise if that synthesis is produced in India?"}}</ref>

Earlier, Bose had clearly expressed his belief that democracy was the best option for India.{{sfn|Roy|2004|pp=7–8}} However, during the war (and possibly as early as the 1930s), Bose seems to have decided that no democratic system could be adequate to overcome India's poverty and social inequalities, and he wrote that a socialist state similar to that of Soviet Russia (which he had also seen and admired) would be needed for the process of national re-building.{{efn|"The Fundamental Problems of India" (An address to the Faculty and students of [[Tokyo University]], November 1944): "You cannot have a so-called democratic system, if that system has to put through economic reforms on a socialistic basis. Therefore we must have a political system—a State—of an authoritarian character. We have had some experience of democratic institutions in India and we have also studied the working of democratic institutions in countries like France, England, and the United States of America. And we have come to the conclusion that with a democratic system we cannot solve the problems of Free India. Therefore, modern progressive thought in India is in favour of a State of an authoritarian character"{{sfn|Bose|Bose|1997a|pp=319–320}}}} Accordingly, some suggest that Bose's alliance with the Axis during the war was based on more than just pragmatism and that Bose was a militant nationalist, though not a Nazi nor a Fascist, for he supported the empowerment of women, secularism and other [[Classical liberalism|liberal]] ideas; alternatively, others consider he might have been using populist methods of mobilisation common to many post-colonial leaders.{{sfn|Sen|1999}}

===Antisemitism===
Since before the beginning of World War II, Bose was opposed to the attempts to grant Jewish refugees asylum in India.{{sfn|Hayes|2011|pp=165–166}}<ref>{{citation|last=Kumaraswamy|first=P. R.|title=Squaring the Circle: Mahatma Gandhi and the Jewish National Home|publisher=Routledge|page=153|year=2020|quote=In his presidential address, Subhas Chandra Bose highlighted the contradictory nature of the British Empire and its inconsistent policy over Palestine. As a heterogeneous empire, Bose observed, the British had to be pro-Arab in India and pro Jewish elsewhere, and accused that London "has to please Jews because she cannot ignore Jewish high finance. On the other hand, the India Office and Foreign Office have to placate the Arabs because of the Imperial interests in the Near East and India."' While his reasoning was logical, Bose's anti-Jewish slur was no different from the anti-Semitic remarks in the (Muslim) League deliberations referred to earlier. Bose also opposed Nehru's efforts to provide asylum to a limited number of European Jewish refugees who were fleeing from Nazi persecution. Despite the opposition led by Bose, Nehru "was a strong supporter of inviting (Jewish refugees) to settle down in India... (and felt that) this was the only way by which Jews could be saved from the wrath of the Nazis... Between 1933 and the outbreak of the War, Nehru was instrumental in obtaining the entry of several German Jewish refugees into India"}}</ref> The great anti-Jewish pogrom called "[[Kristallnacht|the Night of Broken Glass]]" happened on 9 November 1938. In early December, the pro-[[Hindu Mahasabha]] journals published articles lending support to German anti-Semitism. This stance brought Hindu Mahasabha into conflict with the Congress which, on 12 December, issued a statement containing references to recent European events. Within the Congress, only Bose opposed this stance of the party. After some months in April 1939, Bose refused to support the party motion that Jews can find refuge in India.{{sfn|Casolari|2020|pp=89–90}}<ref name=combined-antisemetic>{{citation|last=Bruckenhaus|first=Daniel|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2017|isbn=978-0-19-066001-7|lccn=2016042217|page=213|title=Policing Transnational Protest: Liberal Imperialism and the Surveillance of Anticolonialists in Europe, 1905–1945|quote=Epilogue and conclusion: Finally, however, the example of Germany also demonstrates that their work in Europe frequently forced anticolonialists to make difficult moral choices, as their presence in that continent required them to take a position not only on colonialism worldwide, but also on inner-European political and ideological conflicts. This was true, especially, during World War II. The war situation brought to stark light, one last time, the contradictions within the western political model of rule, leading to a rift among the anticolonialists then present in Europe. As the western empires fought against Nazi Germany, most anticolonialists felt that they could no longer support, simultaneously, the emancipatory projects of anticolonialism and antifascism. Some, such as Subhas Chandra Bose, began to cooperate with the radically racist Nazis against colonialism, while others decided to work against Nazism with the very western authorities who had been engaged, over the previous decades, in creating a widespread network of trans-national surveillance against them.}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Roland|first=Joan G.|title=Jewish Communities in India: Identity in a Colonial Era|publisher=Routledge|year=2017|isbn=978-0-7658-0439-6|page=342|quote=On 21 August 1942 the Jewish Chronicle of London reported that Bose was anti-Semitic and had published an article in Angriff, the organ of Goebbels, in which he described Indians as the real ancient Aryans and the brethren of the German people. He had said that the swastika was an old Indian sign and that anti-Semitism must become a part of the Indian freedom movement, since the Jews, he alleged, had helped Britain to exploit and oppress the Indians. The Jewish Advocate expressed horror at Bose's statement about a Jewish role in India's exploitation but added, "one may expect anything from one who has traveled the road to Berlin in search of his country's salvation." Norman Shohet pointed out how insignificant a part in the economic and political life of the country the Jews of India actually played. He also mentioned that other Indian leaders had so far not shown any anti-Semitic leanings, but that on the contrary, Gandhi, Nehru, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, and others had been positively friendly to the Jews.}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Aafreedi|first=Navras J.|chapter=Holocaust education in India and its challenges|title=Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and reinterpretatons|location=Abington and New York|editor1-last=Aafreedi|editor1-first=Navras J.|editor2-last=Singh|editor2-first=Priya|publisher=Routledge|year=2021|isbn=978-1-00-314613-1|page=154|quote=Jawaharlal Nehru called the Jews 'People without a home or nation' and sponsored a resolution in the Congress Working Committee. Although the exact date is not known, yet it can be said that it probably happened in December 1938 at the Wardha session, the one that took place shortly after Nehru returned from Europe. The draft resolution read: 'The Committee sees no objection to the employment in India of such Jewish refugees as are experts and specialists and who can fit in with the new order in India and accept Indian standards.' It was, however, rejected by the then Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose, who four years later in 1942 was reported by the ''Jewish Chronicle'' of London as having published an article in ''Angriff'', a journal of Goebbels, saying that "anti-Semitism should become part of the Indian liberation movement because Jews had helped the British to exploit Indians (21 August 1942)" Although by then Bose had left the Congress, he continued to command a strong influence within the party.}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Weinberg|first=Gerhard L.|title=A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II|publisher=Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition|isbn=978-0-521-61826-7|location=Cambridge and New York|year=2011|page=xx|quote=None of the works that deal with ... Subhas Chandra Bose, or his Indian National Army has engaged either Bose's reaction to German mass killing of Sinti and Roma (Gypsies) because their ancestors came from India or the reaction of the soldiers in his army to the sex slaves kidnapped in Japanese-occupied lands and held in enclosures attached to the camps in which they were being trained to follow their Japanese comrades in the occupation of India.}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Shindler|first=Colin|title=Israel and the European Left: Between Solidarity and Deligitimization|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing, Continuum|location=New York|page=112|year=2010|isbn=978-1-4411-8898-4|quote=Bose requested a declaration from the Germans that they supported the movement for freedom in India—and in Arab countries. He had opposed Nehru in permitting political asylum to Jews fleeing Europe in 1939. He was prepared to ingratiate himself with Nazi ideology by writing for Goebells's ''Der Angriff'' in 1942. He argued that anti-Semitism should become a factor in the struggle for Indian freedom since the Jews had collaborated with British imperialism to exploit the country and its inhabitants.}}</ref>

In 1938, Bose had denounced Nazi racial policy and persecution of Jews.<ref>Bose to Dr. Thierfelder of the ''Deutsche Academie'', Kurhaus Hochland, Badgastein, 25 March 1936 {{harvnb|Bose|Bose|1997a|p=155}}</ref> However, in 1942 he had published an article in the journal ''Angriff'', where he wrote that Indians were true Aryans and the 'brethren' of the Germans. Bose added that [[Swastika]] (symbol of Nazi Germany) was an ancient Indian symbol. Bose urged that anti-Semitism should be part of Indian liberation movement because the Jews assisted the British to exploit Indians.<ref>{{cite book | last=Egorova | first=Yulia | title=Jews and India: Perceptions and Image | publisher=Taylor & Francis | series=Routledge Jewish Studies Series | year=2008 | isbn=978-1-134-14655-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1m_okSx7ds4C | page=39 | access-date=22 February 2023 | archive-date=22 February 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222193716/https://books.google.com/books?id=1m_okSx7ds4C | url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[The Jewish Chronicle]]'' had condemned Bose as "India's anti-Jewish [[Quisling]]" over this article.<ref>{{cite news | title=Bose & the Nazis |magazine=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] | date=28 June 2012 |first1=A.G. |last1=Noorani | url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/article30166212.ece | access-date=22 February 2023 | archive-date=22 February 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222193717/https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/article30166212.ece | url-status=live }}</ref>

Romain Hayes describes the troubled legacy of Bose with atrocities related to Jews in the following words:

<blockquote>The most troubling aspect of Bose's presence in Nazi Germany is not military or political but rather ethical. His alliance with the most genocidal regime in history poses serious dilemmas precisely because of his popularity and his having made a lifelong career of fighting the 'good cause'. How did a man who started his political career at the feet of [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] end up with [[Hitler]], [[Mussolini]], and [[Hideki Tojo|Tojo]]? Even in the case of Mussolini and Tojo, the gravity of the dilemma pales in comparison to that posed by his association with Hitler and the Nazi leadership. The most disturbing issue, all too often ignored, is that in the many articles, minutes, memorandums, telegrams, letters, plans, and broadcasts Bose left behind in Germany, he did not express the slightest concern or sympathy for the millions who died in the concentration camps. Not one of his Berlin wartime associates or colleagues ever quotes him expressing any indignation. Not even when the horrors of Auschwitz and its satellite camps were exposed to the world upon being liberated by Soviet troops in early 1945, revealing publicly for the first time the genocidal nature of the Nazi regime, did Bose react.{{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=165}}</blockquote>

== Quotes ==
His most famous quote was "Give me blood and I will give you freedom".{{sfn|Kumar|2010b}} Another famous quote was ''Dilli Chalo'' ("On to Delhi)!" This was the call he used to give the INA armies to motivate them. Another slogan coined by him was "Ittefaq, Etemad, Qurbani" (Urdu for "Unity, Agreement, Sacrifice").{{Sfn|Roy|1996|pp=51ff}}

== Legacy ==

Bose's defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians,{{efn|name=Mythic}}{{efn|"Bose's heroic endeavor still fires the imagination of many of his countrymen. But like a meteor which enters the earth's atmosphere, he burned brightly on the horizon for a brief moment only."{{sfn|Kulke|Rothermund|2004|p=311}}}}{{efn|"Subhas Bose might have been a renegade leader who had challenged the authority of the Congress leadership and their principles. But in death he was a martyred patriot whose memory could be an ideal tool for political mobilization."{{sfn|Bandyopadhyay|2004|p=427}}}} however his wartime alliances with [[Nazi Germany]] and [[Empire of Japan|Imperial Japan]] left a legacy fraught with authoritarianism, [[anti-Semitism]], and [[military incompetence|military failure]].{{efn|(p.117) the INA was raised during the Second World War, with the support of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA); lasted less than three years; and went through two different configurations during that period. In total, it numbered some 40,000 men and women, half of whom are estimated to have been recruited from Indian Army prisoners of war (POWs). The INA's battlefield performance was quite poor when assessed either alongside the IJA or against the reformed Fourteenth Army on the battlefields of Assam and Burma. Reports of its creation in 1942/3 caused consternation among the political and military leadership (p. 118) of the GOI, but in the end its formation did not constitute a legitimate mutiny, and its presence had a negligible impact on the Indian Army.{{sfn|Marston|2014|pp=117–118}}}}{{refn|"At the same time that the Japanese appreciated the firmness with which Bose's forces continued to fight, they were endlessly exasperated with him. A number of Japanese officers, even those like [[Iwaichi Fujiwara|Fujiwara]], who were devoted to the Indian cause, saw Bose as a military incompetent as well as an unrealistic and stubborn man who saw only his own needs and problems and could not see the larger picture of the war as the Japanese had to."{{sfn|Gordon|1990|p=517}}}}<ref name=combined-military-lead/>{{efn|"The (Japanese) Fifteenth Army, commanded by&nbsp;... Maj.-General Mutuguchi Renya consisted of three experienced infantry divisions—15th, 31st and 33rd—totalling 100,000 combat troops, with the 7,000 strong 1st Indian National Army (INA) Division in support. It was hoped the latter would subvert the Indian Army's loyalty and precipitate a popular rising in British India, but in reality the campaign revealed that it was largely a paper tiger."{{Sfn|Moreman|2013|pp=124–125}}}}{{efn|"The real fault, however, must attach to the Japanese commander-in-chief Kawabe. Dithering, ... prostrated with amoebic dysentery, he periodically reasoned that he must cancel [[Operation U-Go]] in its entirety, but every time he summoned the courage to do so, a cable would arrive from Tokyo stressing the paramount necessity of victory in Burma, to compensate for the disasters in the Pacific. ... Even more incredibly, he still hoped for great things from Bose and the INA, despite all the evidence that both were busted flushes."{{Sfn|McLynn|2011|p=429}}}}


=== Memorials ===
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Bose was featured on the stamps in India from 1964, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2016, 2018 and 2021.<ref>{{Commons category-inline|Subhas Chandra Bose}}</ref> Bose was also featured in ₹2 coins in 1996 and 1997, ₹75 coin in 2018 and ₹125 coin in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Netaji fan with error coin in pocket|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/jharkhand/fan-of-netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-with-error-coin-in-pocket/cid/1682378|access-date=27 January 2021|website=www.telegraphindia.com|archive-date=6 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206030935/https://www.telegraphindia.com/jharkhand/fan-of-netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-with-error-coin-in-pocket/cid/1682378|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Rs 75 commemorative coin to mark 75th anniversary of Tricolour hoisting by Bose|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/rs-75-commemorative-coin-to-mark-75th-anniversary-of-tricolour-hoisting-by-bose/articleshow/66608885.cms|access-date=27 January 2021|website=The Times of India|date=14 November 2018|archive-date=4 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204091958/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/rs-75-commemorative-coin-to-mark-75th-anniversary-of-tricolour-hoisting-by-bose/articleshow/66608885.cms|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=नेताजी की 125वीं जयंती पर लॉन्च होगा 125 रुपये का सिक्का, जानें क्या होगा खास|url=https://www.zeebiz.com/hindi/economy/government-to-issue-rupee-125-coin-to-mark-125th-anniversary-of-netaji-subhash-chandra-bose-parakram-diwas-42057|access-date=27 January 2021|website=Zee Business|language=Hindi|archive-date=31 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131175722/https://www.zeebiz.com/hindi/economy/government-to-issue-rupee-125-coin-to-mark-125th-anniversary-of-netaji-subhash-chandra-bose-parakram-diwas-42057|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport]] at Kolkata, West Bengal; is named after him, as well as [[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Gomoh railway station]] at Gomoh, Jharkhand. [[Netaji Express]], a train runs between [[Howrah railway station|Howrah]], West Bengal and [[Kalka]], Haryana. [[Cuttack Netaji Bus Terminal]] at Cuttack, Odisha. [[Netaji Bhavan metro station]] and [[Netaji metro station]] at Kolkata, West Bengal and [[Netaji Subhash Place metro station]] at Delhi. [[Ross Island, South Andaman district|Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Island]] at Andaman and Nicobar Island. [[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Setu]] (Longest bridge of Odisha) at Cuttack, Odisha. [[Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road]] at Kolkata, West Bengal. [[INA War Museum]] at Moirang, Manipur. [[Netaji Indoor Stadium]] at Kolkata, West Bengal, [[DDA Netaji Subhash Sports Complex]] at Delhi, [[Netaji Stadium]] at Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Island. [[Netaji Subhas Open University]] at Kolkata, West Bengal, [[Netaji Subhash University of Technology]] at Delhi, [[Netaji Subhas University]] at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand and many other things in India are named after him. On 23 August 2007, [[Japanese Prime Minister]], [[Shinzō Abe]] visited the [[Netaji Bhawan]] in [[Kolkata]].{{sfn|Roche|2007}}{{sfn|The Hindu|2007}} Abe, who is also the recipient of Netaji Award 2022,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/ex-japan-pm-shinzo-abe-given-netaji-award-2022/articleshow/89072417.cms?from=mdr|title=Ex-Japan PM Shinzo Abe given Netaji Award 2022|agency=[[Press Trust of India]]|website=economictimes.com|publisher=[[The Economic Times]]|date=23 January 2022|access-date=8 July 2022|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123080712/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/ex-japan-pm-shinzo-abe-given-netaji-award-2022/articleshow/89072417.cms?from=mdr|archive-date=23 January 2022}}</ref> said to Bose's family "The Japanese are deeply moved by Bose's strong will to have led the [[Indian independence movement]] from British rule. Netaji is a much respected name in Japan."{{sfn|Roche|2007}}{{sfn|The Hindu|2007}}

In 2021, the [[Government of India]] declared 23 January as [[Netaji Jayanti|Parakram Divas]] to commemorate the birth anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose. Political party, [[Trinamool Congress]] and the [[All India Forward Bloc]] demanded that the day should be observed as 'Deshprem Divas'.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Shiv Sahay |title=Political row over Centre's decision to celebrate Netaji's birth anniversary as Parakram Diwas |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/political-row-over-centres-decision-to-celebrate-netajis-birth-anniversary-as-parakram-diwas/article33612822.ece |access-date=23 January 2021 |work=The Hindu |date=19 January 2021 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121160114/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/political-row-over-centres-decision-to-celebrate-netajis-birth-anniversary-as-parakram-diwas/article33612822.ece |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2019, the [[Government of India]] inaugurated a museum on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his INA at [[Red Fort]], New Delhi. In 2022, [[Government of India]] inaugurated a Statue of [[Statue of Subhas Chandra Bose|Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose]] at [[India Gate]]. Also in the same year, [[Government of India]] started an official award [[Subhas Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar]], for those who do excellent work in disaster management.<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 January 2022 |title=Subhas Chandra Bose 125th birth anniversary: Unveiling of Netaji's statue, floral tributes at Central Hall |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/subhas-chandra-bose-125th-birth-anniversary-unveiling-of-netaji-s-statue-floral-tributes-at-central-hall-101642842835445.html |access-date=10 March 2022 |newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]] |first1=Kunal |last1=Gaurav |archive-date=10 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310235521/https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/subhas-chandra-bose-125th-birth-anniversary-unveiling-of-netaji-s-statue-floral-tributes-at-central-hall-101642842835445.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Mehrotra |first=Vani |date=23 January 2022 |title='Attempts were made to erase contributions of many,' says PM Modi as he unveils hologram statue of Netaji |url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-125th-birth-anniversary-live-updates-netaji-hologram-statue-india-gate-pm-modi-political-leaders-2022-01-23-755814 |access-date=10 March 2022 |website=www.indiatvnews.com |archive-date=10 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310235521/https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-125th-birth-anniversary-live-updates-netaji-hologram-statue-india-gate-pm-modi-political-leaders-2022-01-23-755814 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== In popular media ===
[[File:The tableau of Andaman & Nicobar depicting the '100 years of Cellular Jail ', passes through the Rajpath during the Republic Day Parade - 2006, in New Delhi on January 26, 2006.jpg|thumb|left|Bose on the tableau of Andaman & Nicobar in the 2006 [[Republic Day Parade]] in New Delhi]]
[[File:Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.jpg|thumb|Subhas in Army uniform]]
* ''Netaji Subhash'', a feature documentary film about Bose was released in 1947, it was directed by Chhotubhai Desai.<ref name="film" />
* ''[[Subhas Chandra]]'' is a 1966 Indian [[Bengali language|Bengali]]-language biographical film, directed by Pijush Basu.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4303968/|title=Subhas Chandra (1966)|website=IMDb|access-date=19 February 2020|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308075840/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4303968/|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Das Gupta|2015}}
* ''Neta Ji Subhash Chandra Bose'' is a 1966 Indian biographical drama film about Bose by [[Hemen Gupta]].<ref name="film">{{cite book|author=Gautam Kaul|title=Cinema and the Indian Freedom Struggle: Covering the Subcontinent|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNxkAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Sterling Publishers|isbn=978-81-207-2116-6}}</ref>
* In 2004, [[Shyam Benegal]] directed the biographical film, ''[[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero]]'' depicting his life in [[Nazi Germany]] (1941–1943), in Japanese-occupied Asia (1943–1945) and the events leading to the formation of [[Azad Hind Fauj]].{{sfn|Salam|2005}} The film received critical acclaim at the [[BFI London Film Festival]], and has garnered the [[Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration|National Film Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration]], and the [[National Film Award for Best Art Direction|National Film Award for Best Production Design]] for that year.{{sfn|Pandohar|2005}}{{sfn|The Guardian|2005}}
* [[Mahanayak (novel)|Mahanayak]], 2005 published [[Marathi language|Marathi]] historical novel on the life of Subhash Chandra Bose, written by Marathi author [[Vishvas Patil]].
* ''[[His Majesty's Opponent]]'', a biography of Subhash Chandra Bose, written by [[Sugata Bose]], published in 2011.
* ''Subhash Chandra Bose: The Mystery'', a 2016 documentary film by Iqbal Malhotra, follows conspiracy theories regarding Bose's death.<ref>{{cite web |title=Subhash Chandra Bose: The Mystery |url=https://www.discoveryplus.in/videos/subhash-chandra-bose-the-mystery/bose-the-mystery?type=EPISODE |website=[[discovery+]] |access-date=10 February 2021 |archive-date=1 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601114524/https://www.discoveryplus.in/videos/subhash-chandra-bose-the-mystery/bose-the-mystery?type=EPISODE |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Netaji Bose – The Lost Treasure'' is a 2017 television documentary film which aired on [[History TV18]], it explores the [[INA treasure controversy]].<ref name="HistoryTV18">{{cite web |title='Netaji Bose – The Lost Treasure' |url=https://www.historyindia.com/show/netaji-bose-the-lost-treasure |website=HISTORY TV18 |access-date=23 January 2020 |archive-date=25 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925152156/https://www.historyindia.com/show/netaji-bose-the-lost-treasure |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In 2017, [[ALTBalaji]] and BIG Synergy Media, released a 9-episode web series, [[Bose: Dead/Alive]], created by [[Ekta Kapoor]], a dramatised version of the book ''India's Biggest Cover-up'' written by [[Anuj Dhar]], which starred [[Bollywood]] actor [[Rajkummar Rao]] as Subhas Chandra Bose and Anna Ador as [[Emilie Schenkl]]. The series was praised by both audience and critics, for its plot, performance and production design.{{sfn|Gauri|2017}}
* In January 2019 [[Zee Bangla]] started broadcasting the daily television series ''[[Netaji (TV series)|Netaji]]''.
* ''[[Gumnaami]]'' is a 2019 Indian [[Bengali language|Bengali]] [[mystery film]] directed by [[Srijit Mukherji]], which deals with Netaji's death mystery, based on the [[Death of Subhas Chandra Bose#Mukherjee Commission 2005|Mukherjee Commission Hearings]].

== See also ==
{{Div col}}
* [[Revolutionary movement for Indian independence]]
* [[Japanese occupation of Singapore]]
* [[Bombing of Rangoon in World War II]]
* [[Death of Subhas Chandra Bose]]
* [[Political views of Subhas Chandra Bose]]
* [[Bengal Volunteers]]
* [[Bibliography of Subhas Chandra Bose]]
* [[Subhasji (song)|Subhasji]]
* [[Qadam Qadam Badhaye Ja]]
* [[Bhagwanji|Gumnami Baba]]
{{Div col end}}

== Notes ==
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* [http://www.netaji.org/ Netaji Research Bureau]
* [http://www.netajipapers.gov.in/all-papers?page=1 Declassified papers at the National Archives of India]
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