Bos, Subhas Chandra

Subhas Chandra Bos
Subhas Chandra Bos
	beng. সুভাষ চন্দ্র বসু
Date of Birth	January 23, 1897
Place of Birth	Kattak , Orissa , British India
Date of death	August 18, 1945 (48 years old)
Place of death	Taipei , taiwan
A country	; ;
Occupation	public figure
Father	Yanakinat Bos
Mother	Prabhavati devi
Spouse	Emily Schenckle
Children	Anita Bose Pfaff
Awards and prizes	(posthumously)
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Subhas Chandra Bose , ( Subhash Chandra Bose , Beng. সুভাষ চন্দ্র বসু, Shubhash Chôndro Boshu ) ( January 23, 1897 - August 18, 1945 ) ^[1] , also known as Netaji , a Bengali by birth, one of the leaders of the Indian Independence Movement , revered now on a par with Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi . To fight against the English colonialists, he went into cooperation with the Germans , and then with the Japanese. He headed the collaborative pro-Japanese administration, Azad Hind (Free India), which he declared the "Government of India" and which issued its money and stamps, but in reality controlled only a small piece of territory occupied by the Japanese. According to the officially accepted version, the plane in which Bos was trying to escape to Japan crashed ^[2] .

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Biography

Subhas Chandra Bos was born into a family of Hindu Bengalis; was the ninth out of fourteen child. He studied at private colleges, the University of Calcutta and Cambridge University . From an early age he began to actively engage in politics, was repeatedly arrested for revolutionary activity. Twice in a row he was elected chairman of the Indian National Congress . In his views, he had significant disagreements with Mahatma Gandhi, and considered his policy of non-violence insufficient to achieve independence of India . Bos was a supporter of an armed uprising against British rule, and founded his own political group, Block-Forward India . Among the supporters called Netaji - "leader", with a respectful ending ("ji").

With the outbreak of World War II, he sought contacts first with the USSR, and later with the Nazis , wanting to attract their help in gaining Indian independence. He visited Germany , where he took part in the creation of the SS Legion "Free India" . He also established contacts with the authorities of the Japanese Empire in a joint struggle against Great Britain. May 29, 1942 met with Hitler .

In 1943, he led the Provisional Government of Free India, Azad Hind, and the National Army , formed in Singapore , occupied by the Japanese, mainly from Indian prisoners of war and migrant workers. The units formed by Bos took part in the hostilities of the Japanese army against the British in Burma and other territories with a significant Indian population.

In early 1945, due to the deteriorating situation on the fronts, he tried to move to Japan, but died in a plane crash near Taiwan on August 18, 1945. The circumstances of the death of Subhas Chandra Bose are still unclear. Indian researchers could not find the debris of the Bose plane, which caused conspiracy theories about his future fate. According to one of the existing, but unconfirmed versions, Subhas Chandra Bos could be captured by Soviet intelligence and died in captivity.

Rating

Due to collaboration with the Nazis and the Japanese during World War II, Subhas Chandra Bos remains one of the most controversial figures in the history of India, nevertheless he is officially recognized as one of the revolutionary fighters for the independence of India. The modern tricolor of India and the coat of arms were largely borrowed from the attributes of the interim government, led by Bos in exile. In 1992, his name was officially entered in the pantheon of heroes of India, he was posthumously awarded the highest award of India - the Order of Bharat Ratna . Monuments were erected in several cities of India. Subhas Bos was erected in several books and films. The international airport in Calcutta and one of the stations of the Calcutta Metro are named after him.

In art

The film " Leader Subhas Chandra Bos: The Forgotten Hero "

Notes

↑ Estimated date of death
↑ The version is also known in the press, according to which in reality he moved through Manchuria to the USSR . There is no documentary evidence of this version. The Hindustan Times conducted a death investigation and published a series of articles about the hypothesis that Bos became a sannyasi and, under the name Bhagwanji, lived in Fayzabad near Ayodhya until 1985. This version of events has not received official confirmation either. Netaji's death unraveled . HindustanTimes.com. Date of treatment September 27, 2009. Archived February 19, 2012.

Literature

Trofimov V.N. Collaborationists: imaginary and real. Subhas Chandra Bos, Mahatma Gandhi, Charles de Gaulle, Andrey Vlasov, Mikhail Gorbachev. M., Printed at the printing house “Your Format”, 2015, 198 p. - ISBN 978-5-9905971-9-8
Bose, Subhas Chandra, Fundamental Questions of Indian Revolution. Calcutta: Netaji Research Bureau, 1970
Dr. Satyanarayan Singha. Netaji Mistery. Calcutta, 1965

[1] Estimated date of death

[2] The version is also known in the press, according to which in reality he moved through Manchuria to the USSR . There is no documentary evidence of this version. The Hindustan Times conducted a death investigation and published a series of articles about the hypothesis that Bos became a sannyasi and, under the name Bhagwanji, lived in Fayzabad near Ayodhya until 1985. This version of events has not received official confirmation either. Netaji's death unraveled . HindustanTimes.com. Date of treatment September 27, 2009. Archived February 19, 2012.