The islands were nominally put under the authority of the Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind ( Provisional Government of Free India ) headed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

On December 30, 1943, during the Japanese occupation, Subhas Chandra Bose, who was controversially allied with the Japanese, first raised the flag of Indian independence.

* 1943 – Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

* 1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.

Along with Subhas Chandra Bose, Nehru was considered a radical within the party during his tenure as general secretary due to his rejection of dominion status for India in favour of complete independence.

Gandhi had not only moderated the views of younger men like Subhas Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru, who sought a demand for immediate independence, but also reduced his own call to a one year wait, instead of two.

Gandhi had a clash with Subhas Chandra Bose, who had been elected president in 1938, and who had previously expressed a lack of faith in non-violence as a means of protest.

Many, if not most, of the Indian volunteers who switched sides to fight with the German Army and against the British were strongly nationalistic supporters of the exiled, anti-British, former president of the Indian National Congress, Netaji ( the Leader ) Subhas Chandra Bose.

** British authorities in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next 2½ years.

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His speeches had influence on the contemporaneous and subsequent Indian leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Bipin Chandra Pal, Balgangadhar Tilak and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

" According to Subhas Chandra Bose, a major proponent of armed struggle for Indian independence, Vivekananda " is the maker of modern India "; for Mahatma Gandhi, Vivekananda's influence increased his " love for his country a thousandfold.

" Swami Vivekananda influenced India's independence movement ; his writings inspired a whole generation of freedom fighters such as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Aurobindo Ghose, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bagha Jatin.

In 1938, Patel organised rank and file opposition to the attempts of then-Congress president Subhas Chandra Bose to move away from Gandhi's principles of non-violent resistance.

Gandhi had refused to support Britain on the grounds of his moral opposition to war, while Subhas Chandra Bose was in militant opposition to the British.

Patel was criticised by supporters of Subhas Chandra Bose for acting coercively to put down politicians not supportive of Gandhi.

The first floor has a statue of the Bharatmata stands along with freedom fighters including Subhas Chandra Bose, Veer Savarkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Chatrapati Shivaji, Guru Govind Singh, Rani of Jhansi and more.

Many of the country's political leaders of the 19th and 20th century, including Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, were influenced by the teachings of Swami Vivekananda.

Legendary figures such as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose later came to adopt a militant approach to the movement, while others like Swami Sahajanand Saraswati wanted both political and economic freedom for India's peasants and toiling masses.

The period of the Second World War saw the peak of the campaigns by the Quit India movement ( led by " Mahatma " Gandhi ) and the Indian National Army ( INA ) movement ( led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ) and others, eventually resulting in the withdrawal of the British.

Initially formed in 1942 immediately after the fall of Singapore under Mohan Singh, the first INA collapsed in December that year before it was revived under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose in 1943 and proclaimed the army of Bose's Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind ( The Provisional Government of Free India ).

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in full military uniform

In a series of meetings between the INA leaders and the Japanese in 1943, it was decided to cede the leadership of the IIL and the INA to Subhas Chandra Bose, since a number of the officers and troops who had returned to PoW camps, or had not volunteered in the first place, made it known that they would be willing to join the INA only on the condition that it was led by Bose.

Dr. Mookerjee supported the partition of Bengal in 1946 to prevent the inclusion of its Hindu-majority areas in a Muslim-dominated East Pakistan ; he also opposed a failed bid for a united but independent Bengal made in 1947 by Sarat Bose, the brother of Subhas Chandra Bose and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, a Bengali Muslim politician.

154 letters of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose written to his nephew Sri Asok Nath Bose and letters to Sarat Chandra Bose are also available in the collection.

The Provisional Government was also constituted and administered by a number of Secretaries and Advisors to Subhas Chandra Bose, including:

During this period, Subhas Chandra Bose also visited the islands.

Alexandar Castle ( where Russian Grand Duke Boris stayed for a few days ; later Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Subhas Chandra Bose and others also stayed )

He was also associated with the daily The Forward, then edited by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, as the organ of All India Forward Bloc.

The party demanded a through investigation into what happened to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, about whom the circumstances of his death are still unclear.

The British were given advance knowledge about the impending Japanese offensive on its North-eastern frontier by Bhagat Ram Talwar ( codenamed " Silver "), a communist double-agent in Kabul and a confidant of Subhas Chandra Bose, after Bose unsuspectingly revealed it to him.

In defining the tasks of this new political establishment, Subhas declared: “ It will be the task of the Provisional Government to launch and conduct the struggle that will bring about the expulsion of the British and their allies from the soil of India .” Bose, taking formal command of the demoralized and undermanned Indian National Army from Rash Bose, turned it into a professional army with the help of the Japanese.

* 1941 – Anandabazar Patrika was the first to inform about Subhas Chandra Bose ’ s dramatic escape.

Some of the significant figures of the Indian independence movement were Kayasthas, including the spiritual leaders Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo, and the revolutionary leader Subhas Chandra Bose.

Disliked by Bengalis for his criticism of Bengali revolutionary Subhas Chandra Bose during the 1938 Tripuri Congress session Rajaji's appointment was unsuccessfully opposed by Subhas's brother Sarat Chandra Bose.

Subsequently, there have been twelve posthumous awards, including the award to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in 1992, which was later withdrawn due to a legal technicality, the only case of an award being withdrawn.

It was against this backdrop that Subhas Chandra Bose arrived in Singapore on July 2, 1943.

* Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian revolutionary in the Indian independence movement, was known as Netaji ( Respected Leader ).

It was popularized by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who used it on Azad Hind Radio during the Indian independence movement.

High School was inaugurated at the hands of Shri Subhas Chandra Bose.

Many militant students paid more attention to Subhas Chandra Bose, who was in exile and supporting the Axis.

Later, after it was reorganized under Subhas Chandra Bose, it drew a large number of civilian volunteers from Malaya and Burma.

Prem Kumar Sahgal, an officer of the INA once Military secretary to Subhas Bose and later tried in the first Red Fort trials, explained that although the war itself hung in balance and nobody was sure if the Japanese would win, initiating a popular revolution with grass-root support within India would ensure that even if Japan lost the war ultimately, Britain would not be in a position to re-assert its colonial authority, which was ultimately the aim of the INA and Azad Hind.

The party was formed in order to work the ideology of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

The airport was originally known as Dum Dum Airport before being renamed in the honour of Subhas Chandra Bose.

The current domestic terminal was opened in 1995, and the airport was renamed in honour of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

On December 29, 1943, political control of the islands was theoretically passed to the Azad Hind government of Subhas Chandra Bose.

Upon reaching Bombay, Roy met leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Bose, the former of whom recalled that despite significant political differences, " I was attracted to him by his remarkable intellectual capacity .”