Life of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose after Tripuri session/split from congress, Subash Chandra Bose with Hitler in Germany & Subash Chandra Bose with Japan/INA trails.

 Netaji after resigning from Congress:

He organized protests in Calcutta and called for the removal of the ‘Holwell Monument’, which commemorated the Black Hole of Calcutta. In 1940, he was arrested and was put behind the bars. In Jail, he sat on a hunger strike. When his condition deteriorated, he was released by the British and was taken under surveillance to his home in Calcutta. He left the house in disguise and reached Peshawar by Train. From there he crossed India’s border and reached Kabul. From Kabul, he went to Moscow and From Moscow, he reached Germany to take Hitler’s help.

Netaji in Nazi Germany:

• In 1941, When Netaji left India in disguise and reached Germany, he was welcomed by Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945, and right hand of Adolf Hitler.

•In Berlin, Subhash established a Free India center and raised a unit of Indian prisoners of war in Germany.

• He frequently used the Berlin Radio and broadcasted is cause for India. It was called Azad Hind Radio. The headquarters of Azad Hind Radio was later shifted to Singapore and later Rangoon. On this Radio, Netaji referred to the British Broadcasting Corporation as the Bluff and Bluster Corporation and the All India Radio as the Anti Indian Radio.

• He used the greeting “Jai Hind” and the public greeted him in return with the same. However, in the East, the outbreak of war was giving a new dimension to the efforts of Subhash to throw out the British.

Netaji and Hitler:

• Hitler repeatedly refused to issue a declaration supporting India's independence, and this suggests that he personally did not support Bose's cause.

• It also has to be remembered that Hitler had written in Mein Kampf that he preferred to see India under the British than under any other country. Bose had asked Hitler to withdraw this in their meeting, but Hitler pointedly refused

• Bose also openly attacked the invasion of Russia, and had called it an act of unprovoked aggression.

• Thus, it can be concluded that the support that Bose received in Germany was due to the efforts of Germany's foreign ministry and its intelligence wing, Abwehr. Hitler personally did not like or encourage Bose as a leader.

• Later he came to know about Japan’s phenomenal success in the war. So to take advantage, he moved on to Japan.

Subash Chandra Bose/INA and Japan:

• Prior to this conference, an invitation was sent to Subhash Chandra Bose to come to East Asia. After a three-month journey by submarine, and a short stop in Singapore, he reached Tokyo on 11 May 1943, and here, he could get the promise of authorities of Japan to extend all the help to him to expel the British from India and enable India to achieve independence.

• The Indian National Army was initially formed under Capt Mohan Singh Deb with Japanese aid and support after the Fall of Singapore and consisted of approximately 20,000 Indian prisoners of war who were captured either during the Malayan campaign or surrendered at Singapore.

• These prisoners were recruited into the Indian national army.

• It was repeatedly made clear at various meetings of leaders of the Indian community and of Indian army officers that INA would go into action only on the invitation of the Congress and the people of India.

• The outbreak of the Quit India Movement gave a fillip to the Indian National Army (INA) as well. Anti-British demonstrations were organized in Malaya.

• Mohan Singh Deb had differences with Japanese authorities. The Japanese too were frustrated with him.

• On 29 December 1942, General Mohan Singh Deb was removed from his command and taken into custody by the Japanese military police. Later, after the war, he was given to the British authorities, which repatriated him to India to face the INA trails.

• On 15 February 1943, the Army was put under the command of Lt. Col. M.Z. Kiani. He revived the former ranks and badges.

• In July 1943 Subhash went to Singapore and here, he was given the premiership of the Indian Independence League. When in 1943, Subhash took over the command of the Indian National Army, it was almost zenith of his career.

• Subhash Chandra Bose returned to Singapore and set-up the Provincial Government of Free India. It then declared war on Britain and the US, and was recognized by the Axis powers and their satellites.

• Subhash Chandra Bose set up two Indian National Army Headquarters, at Rangoon and Singapore.

• For the first time in Asia a women’s regiment, the Rani of Jhansi regiment was raised as a combat force, under Captain Laxmi Swaminathan.

• Subhash Chandra Bose renamed Indian National Army as Azad Hind Fauj.

• Gradually the number of the I.N.A. men began to grow greatly. Assuming the command of the I.N.A. he gave his famous battle cry “Delhi Chalo” (on to Delhi). He worked out a master plan of campaign for the INA with the ultimate goal of reaching Delhi. A provisional Government of Azad Hind (Free India) was set up.

• Subhash Chandra Bose on December 30, 1943, had hoisted Tricolour for the first time on free Indian soil at Cellular Jail of Port Blair during his visit to Andaman and declaring the island as the free territory from the British rule.

• On the same occasion, he had announced freedom of Andaman & Nicobar Islands (making it first Indian Territory) from the British rule and renamed them as “Shaheed-Dweep” (Martyr Island) and “Swaraj-Dweep” (Self-rule Island). The island at that time was liberated from British rule by Japan which captured it during World War – II. Major General Arcot Doraiswamy Loganadan of the Indian National Army (INA) was made the Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

• The INA revealed Subhash Bose’s greatness as a military leader and an organizer too. One of the INA Brigades advanced with the Japanese army up to the frontiers of India. The Indian national flag was hoisted in Kohima in March 1944. But with the change of fortune in the war and the retreat and defeat of the Japanese the INA collapsed. The role of INA had far-reaching influences on the Indian political scene. And the end of INA was marked after the fall of Tokyo.

In 2018 Union Ministry of Finance has announced to release Rs 75 commemorative coin on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the hoisting of Tricolour for the first time by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at Cellular Jail, Port Blair. Renaming of islands. 

Bose had hoisted the flag at Port Blair on December 30, 1943, as he believed that Port Blair was the first territory to be freed from British rule. This was done after the Japenese captured that area during the time of the Second World War.