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Answer the following question briefly:
With reference to the Indian national movement, answer the following: Examine the role of Subhash Chandra Bose in the Indian freedom struggle.
Solution
Subhash Chandra Bose believed that the only way India could get her freedom was to drive the British out of India by the use of armed force. Subhash Chandra Bose had resigned from the Congress in 1939 and formed a new party called the Forward Bloc. He decided to go abroad to join hands with the enemies of the British and drive the British out of India. He was put under house arrest in Calcutta, but he managed to escape in 1941. He first went to Russia and then to Germany and finally to Japan. In Tokyo, he took over the leadership of the Indian Independence Movement in East Asia from Rash Behari Bose. Captain Mohan Singh (a former captain in the British Indian army) had organized the Azad Hind Fauz of the Indian National Army (INA).
Subhash Chandra Bose became the supreme commander of the INA. In 1944 at a meeting in he took an oath to liberate India. ‘Give me blood and I will give you freedom,’ he declared. Netaji infused a new life and spirit into the INA. He fired the imagination of his soldiers with passionate, inspiring speeches, They were ready to lay down their lives for the liberation of their motherland. With the battle cry of ‘Dilli Chalo,’ the INA advanced into India along with the Japanese army.
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