Chitra Katha

Netaji Subhas Chandra BoseNetaji of Azad Hind

In 1944 he led the Azad Hind Fauj into Bharat alongside the Japanese at Kohima and Imphal, and on 14 April 1944 its tricolour was raised at Moirang in Manipur.

23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945 (as found by the 1956 and 1974 inquiries)

The full life
1Congress president at Haripura (1938) and Tripuri (1939).Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose · The people
2Escaped from Calcutta on 16–17 January 1941.Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
3Proclaimed the Provisional Government of Azad Hind, Singapore, 21 October 1943.Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
4Raised the tricolour at Port Blair on 30 December 1943.Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
5Born at Cuttack on 23 January 1897.
6Ross Island at Port Blair renamed after him in 2018.Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Sources for these facts

  • Report of the Netaji Inquiry Committee (Shah Nawaz Committee, 1956)
  • Report of the Justice M. K. Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry (2005)
  • Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim (unfinished autobiography)

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