During World War II, the Azad Hind Fauj was created to secure complete independence from British rule.
Across the country every year on this day 21tst October the anniversary of the formation of Azad Hind Government is celebrated. India’s first independent provisional government named Azad hind govt. was announced on this day. Mohan Singh first established in the year of 1942, Azad Hind Fauj, or the Indian National Army (INA) was revived by Subhas Chandra Bose on 21st October 1943.
Japan, Croatia, Indonesia, Germany, Italy, and Burma along with a few other countries had given recognition to the Azad Hind Govt.
About Subhas Chandra Bose
Subhas Chandra Bose was born on 23 January 1897 in Calcutta (part of Bengal province’s Odisha division at that time)
Bose completed his schooling education and decided to study at the well-known college The Presidency College for a very short duration. Bose went to study philosophy at the Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta and then he decided to shift and he shifted to Britain for higher studies.
Bose was an excellent student; he qualified for the prestigious Indian Civil Services Examination (ICS). Soon he quit as Bose did not want to work under the British Govt. but in India’s independent struggle he played a crucial role in it.
Facts about Bose and his Azad Hind Fauj
He joined the independence movement and became a Congress party member as he was not interested in working with the Britishers. Bose had major ideological differences working with the leading personalities like Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
Bose became the president of the party in the year of 1938. Having differences in opinion with Gandhi and the party’s high command he was later ousted. As he differed Gandhi’s method of nonviolence, Bose wanted to wage war against the colonial rulers.