Top 10 Freedom Fighters Of India
(Part-3)
Subhas Chandra Bose
Subhas Chandra Bose also known as Netaji
was one of the most prominent Indian nationalist leaders who attempted to gain India's
independence from British
rule by force during the
waning years of World War II.
Bose, who had been ousted from the Indian
National Congress in 1939
following differences with the more conservative high command and subsequently placed under house
arrest by the British, escaped from India in early 1941.He turned to the Axis
powers for help in
gaining India's independence by force.[3] With Japanese support, he organised
the Indian National Army (INA),
composed largely of Indian soldiers of the British Indian army who had been
captured in the Battle of Singapore by the Japanese.
As the war turned
against them, the Japanese came to support a number of countries to form
provisional governments in the captured regions, including those in Burma, the Philippines and Vietnam, and in addition, the
Provisional Government of Azad Hind, presided by Bose Bose's
effort, however, was short lived; in 1945 the British army first halted and
then reversed the Japanese U Go offensive, beginning the
successful part of the Burma
Campaign. INA was driven down the Malay Peninsula, and surrendered with the
recapture of Singapore. It was
reported that Bose died soon thereafter from third degree burns received after
attempting to escape in an overloaded Japanese plane which crashed in Taiwan,which
is disputed .The trials of the INA soldiers at Red Fort, Delhi, in late 1945 caused
huge public response in India.
He was Born in a Bengali Hindu
family on 23 January 1897 in Cuttack,Orissa.
In 1927 Bose became General Seceratry of National Congress
party and work for Independence.
Indian National
Army(INA) was founded on 1st September 1942.
On 6th July 1944 Bose addressed Mahatma Gandhi as
the “Father Of Nation”.
His famous quotes are:-
“Dilli Chalo”
“Give me blood I will give you freedom”.
Bose is alleged to have died in a plane crash on 18th
August 1945 at Taiwan