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Subhas Chandra Bose won the INC presidency at Haripura (1938) and Tripuri (1939) before establishing the All India Forward Bloc in May 1939.
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Bose executed the Great Escape from British surveillance in 1941, establishing the Free India Centre in Berlin before traveling to Southeast Asia.
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Assuming leadership of the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) in Singapore (1943), Bose proclaimed the Provisional Government of Free India (Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind).
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The INA mobilized the all-female Rani of Jhansi Regiment under Captain Lakshmi Sahgal and fought in the Burma-India border campaigns at Imphal and Kohima (1944).
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The 1945 Red Fort trials of INA officers Prem Sahgal, Gurbaksh Dhillon, and Shahnawaz Khan sparked intense nationwide unrest and the 1946 Naval Mutiny.
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Bose achieved fourth rank in the prestigious Indian Civil Service (ICS) examination in London in 1920, but resigned his commission in 1921 to join the freedom movement.
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Bose accepted Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das as his political mentor, serving as Chief Executive Officer of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation while Das served as Mayor.
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As Congress President at Haripura in 1938, Bose established the National Planning Committee under the chairmanship of Jawaharlal Nehru to outline industrial development.
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During the Tripuri session in 1939, Bose defeated Mahatma Gandhi's candidate Pattabhi Sitaramayya for the presidency, prompting Gandhi to declare the defeat as his own.
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Traveling to Germany via Kabul and Moscow in 1941 under the alias Orlando Mazzotta, Bose established the Indian Legion within the German Wehrmacht.
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In February 1943, Bose undertook a perilous 90-day submarine journey from Kiel, Germany, aboard U-180, transferring off Madagascar to the Japanese submarine I-29.
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Mohan Singh, a captain in the British Indian Army captured during the Malayan campaign, initially organized the Indian National Army in 1942 with Japanese Major Fujiwara.
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In Singapore on 21 October 1943, Bose set up the Azad Hind Government, which received formal diplomatic recognition from nine sovereign governments including Japan, Germany, and Italy.
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Bose secured Japanese administrative transfer of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in December 1943, renaming them 'Shaheed' (Martyr) and 'Swaraj' (Self-Rule) Islands.
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Bose popularized the national slogan 'Jai Hind' and gave the call 'Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom' to mobilize overseas Indians in Southeast Asia.
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Subhas Chandra Bose brought a militant path to India's freedom struggle. After winning the Congress presidency at Haripura in 1938 and Tripuri in 1939, ideological differences with Mahatma Gandhi led him to establish the Forward Bloc. Escaping British detention in 1941, Bose reached Southeast Asia to take charge of the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj). He set up the Provisional Government of Free India, created the all-female Rani of Jhansi Regiment, and gave the battle cry "Delhi Chalo."
In UPSC and State PSC exams, INA history is a frequent topic. Remember that Captain Mohan Singh initially founded the INA with Indian prisoners of war, while Rash Behari Bose transferred leadership to Subhas Bose in 1943. A common prelims question tests the 1945 Red Fort trials of Prem Sahgal, Gurbaksh Dhillon, and Shahnawaz Khan, where Bhulabhai Desai and Jawaharlal Nehru organized their legal defense.
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