| abstract | - Subhas Chandra Bose সুভাষ চন্দ্র বসু, 23 January 1897- unconfirmed) known by name Netaji (Hindi for "Respected Leader") was an Indian revolutionary who led an Indian national political and military force against Britain and the Western powers during the Second World War. Bose was one of the most prominent leaders in the Indian independence movement and is a legendary figure in India today. Bose was born on 23 January 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa to Janakinath Bose and Prabhabati Devi. He is presumed to have died "in absentia" on 18 August 1945 from injuries sustained in an alleged aircraft crash in Taihoku (Taipei). However, no actual evidence of his death on that day has ever been officially authenticated and many committees were set up by the government of India to investigate the mystery of his presumed death. {seeded from Wikipedia}
- Subhas Chandra Bose (; 23 January 1897 – ) also known as Netaji (Hindi/Bengali: “Respected Leader”), was an Indian nationalist whose unsuccessful attempt in the waning years of World War II to liberate India militarily from British rule roused patriotic feelings in India. Earlier, Bose had been a leader of the younger, radical, wing of the Indian National Congress in the late 1920s and 1930s, rising to become Congress President from 1938 to 1939. However, he was ousted from the Congress in 1939 following differences with the high command, and subsequently placed under house arrest by the British before escaping from India in early 1941. He turned to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan for help in gaining India's independence by force. With Japanese support, he organised the Indian National Army, composed largely of Indian soldiers of the British Indian army who had been captured in the Battle of Singapore by the Japanese. As the war turned against them, the Japanese came to support a number of puppet and provisional governments in the captured regions, including those in Burma, the Philippines and Vietnam, and in addition, the Provisional Government of Azad Hind, presided by Bose. Bose's effort, however, was short lived. In 1945 the British army first halted and then reversed the Japanese U Go offensive, beginning the successful part of the Burma Campaign. Bose's Indian National Army was driven down the Malay Peninsula, and surrendered with the recapture of Singapore. Bose died soon thereafter from third degree burns received after attempting to escape in an overloaded Japanese plane which crashed in Taiwan, which many Indians believe did not happen, and many, especially in Bengal, believing that he would return to liberate India. The trials of the INA soldiers at Red Fort, Delhi, in late 1945 caused widespread public unrest in India.
- Subhas Chandra Bose is one of the recipients of Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of India.
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