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Subhas Chandra Bose

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At the time of the start of the Second World War, great controversy existed in the Indian independence movement about whether to exploit the weakness of the British to achieve independence. Many felt that any distinctions between the political allegiances and ideologies of the warring factions of Europe were inconsequential in the face of the possibility of Indian independence, and that it was immensely hypocritical of the British to condemn pro-democracy Indians for allying themselves with anti-democratic Axis forces when the British themselves showed so little respect for democracy or democratic reforms in India.

Though Bose did ally himself with the Axis powers, there is little to suggest he shared anything approaching their doctrines of racial superiority; instead it appears he was motivated to join them largely out of political pragmatism.

 

 

Subhas Chandra Bose

Alan Mathison Turing

Subhas Chandra Bose (January 23, 1897 - August 18, 1945) also known as Netaji, was a Bengal born Indian leader of the movement to win independence from British rule. Bose helped organize and later lead the "Indian National Army" put together with Indian prisoners-of-war and plantation workers from Singapore and Southeast Asia.

He was educated at Ravenshaw Collegiate School, Cuttack, the Scottish Church College, Calcutta and the University of Cambridge . He had resigned from the prestigious Indian Civil Service, despite scoring the fourth place on the merit list, as he wanted to serve his nation, then a colony of the British. Bose was once president of the Indian National Congress. He was elected for a second term against the wishes of senior party official Mohandas Gandhi, who supported Pattabhi Sitaramayya. Although Bose won the election, Gandhi's continued opposition led to the resignation of the Working Committee which further put pressure on Bose to finally resign. After having left the Congress Bose formed a separate party, the All India Forward Bloc.

At the start of World War II, Bose traveled to Germany where he joined the Special Bureau for India under Adam von Trott zu Solz, broadcasting on the German-sponsored Azad Hind Radio. He founded the Free India Centre in Berlin and established the Indian Legion, (consisting of some 3500 soldiers) from Indian prisoners of war who had previously fought for the British in North Africa. At a time when none in Germany dared to criticise Hitler, Bose had openly criticised Hitler's treatment of Jews, annulment of democratic institutions in Germany and Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.

Disappointed with the support for Indian independence from Hitler, he travelled by submarine around the Cape of Good Hope to Imperial Japan, which helped him to raise his army. This was the only man-transfer across two different submarines of two different navies in World War II.

 

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