Subhas Chandra Bose’s call to free India from the British Empire
Subhas Chandra Bose’s call to free India from the British Empire: Subhas Chandra Bose, is the one of the most significant freedom fighters of India, was a very bold son of Odisha. He was born in Odia Bazaar, Cuttack.
His father’s name was Ray Bahadur Jankinath Bose. Born as the son of Jankinath Bose, Subhas is known as the amazing revolutionary leader of India and the whole world. He is the leader of the world.
Subhas Chandra Bose was born to his father, the lawyer Janaki Nath Bose, and mother Ehti Devi on 23 January 1897 in Cuttack, Odisha. He is the ninth sibling among fourteen of them. Similarly to his sisters, his first formal education had begun in the Protestant European School, conducted under the Baptist Mission in January of 1902. In the year 1909, Subhas was transferred to the Ravenshaw Collegiate School at Cuttack from where in 1913, he attained matric with the second-class. From the first day, Benimadhav Das, then headmaster, sensed his prodigious talent. After finishing his secondary education, he studied philosophy at Presidency College, Calcutta, and then at the Scottish Church College. Under studying at Presidency College, he was expelled from the college for being rude to his fellow students, who were offended by Professor Otten’s statements against India.
In 1919, he went to England under his father’s pressure, and in 1920, he passed the I.C.S. examination in fourth place. In 1921, when he was still training for the I. C. S., the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in India, so he left his training midway and returned to India.
He was introduced to his countrymen by Chittaranjan Das. He joined Indian National Congress. In 1923, he was made the secretary of Bengal Provincial Congress Committee. In 1924, he became elected as the mayor of Kolkata. Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Bose had the ideas for complete independence; on the other hand, in 1928, the Motilal Nehru Committee came up as it was Congress sponsored and was propagating for self-rule. In 1930, he was arrested in 1931 under the terms of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, where his imprisonment for civil disobedience, he was out in 1938. Re-elected as President of the Congress at the Haripura session of ANC and defeated the candidate from Gandhi, namely Pattaviseetaramaya. Still he was working, 1939.
In 1939, he created a new party called Forward Bloc. He believed that India could be freed from British imperialism only through armed struggle. He was very much inspired by the Italian leaders Garibaldi and Mazzini. This radicalism of Subhas did not go unnoticed by the British government, and they kept him under house arrest in Calcutta. He crossed the Indian border on 17 January 1941 and reached Berlin in March via Afghanistan and Soviet Russia to fight for India’s independence from India. He met the Nazi ruler of Germany, Hitler, and requested him to help him for India’s independence. He inaugurated a Free India Centre in Berlin and formed the Free India Army on German soil. From far off in Berlin, he called upon the people of India to fight through Azad Hind Radio. The call “Give me blood, I will give you freedom” united everyone.
Rash Bihari Bose, an Indian in exile, in Japan had collected overseas Indians and prisoners of war from Japan, Burma, Malaya, etc., to form the Indian Independence League. Subhash led the Azad Hind Fauj in Singapore and established a provisional independent government there on 21 October 1943, from where he gave the Delhi Chalo call. Along with this, the campaign of the Azad Hind Fauj started. The Azad Hind Fauj crossed the border of Burma and entered Indian land on 18 March 1944, and the campaign moved till Imphal in Manipur. From both land and air, the British army attacked the Azad Hind Fauj, advancing with strong steps, and defeated it at Imphal.
Although there had been many inquiries with commissions that met, such as the Shahnawaz Committee, the Khosla Commission, and Mukherjee Commission, nothing was found as regards the time or cause of his death.
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