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Rash Behari Bose

Indian National Army

Revolutionary in exile in Japan who helped build the Indian Independence League and the first INA, then handed leadership to Subhas Chandra Bose.

Life
1886–1945
Place
Tokyo, Japan
Years
1942–1943
Map
35.6762, 139.6503

Biography

Rash Behari Bose, 1886–1945, left India after the 1912 Delhi conspiracy case and later settled in Japan. In the Second World War he helped organize Indian expatriate networks and the Indian Independence League in Southeast Asia, which backed the first Indian National Army under Mohan Singh. He then transferred leadership to Subhas Chandra Bose, who is already on this atlas with a Kolkata pin. The pin for Rash Behari Bose is Tokyo, his base in exile. His birth region was Bengal.

Revolution

Theme. Indian Independence League

Key figures. Mohan Singh, Subhas Chandra Bose

Outcome. Passed INA leadership to Subhas Chandra Bose in 1943. Died in 1945.

Casualties. Not a personal battlefield tally.

Influence. The link between earlier revolutionary exile and the wartime INA.