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13 unusual facts about Subhas Chandra Bose


Asit Krishna Mukherji

Mukherji used his connections with Subhas Chandra Bose and the Japanese authorities to put them in contact with one another, thus facilitating the formation of the Indian National Army.

Former Indian National Army Monument

Subhas Chandra Bose ("Netaji") laid the foundation stone on July 8, 1945, months before Singapore was recaptured by the British.

Gladwin Kotelawala

With the on set of World War II, and the Japanese occupation of Malaya, he served as a price control inspector in Malacca before joining the Indian Independence League (IIL) of Subhas Chandra Bose and formed the Ceylon Department serving as its Secretary.

Hijli Detention Camp

A significant moment in the struggle against British rule occurred at The Hijli Detention Camp on Sept. 16, 1931 when two unarmed detainees, Santosh Kumar Mitra and Tarakeswar Sengupta, were shot dead by the British Police and Subhas Chandra Bose came to Hijli to collect their bodies.

Janjua

Raja Shah Nawaz Khan (Matore, January 1914) was a freedom fighter and Major General for the Indian National Army and a close aide of Subhas Chandra Bose.

He chaired the enquiry into the death of Subhas Chandra Bose in 1956, and later became an Indian Government Central Minister.

Japanese submarines in the Pacific War

During this meeting on 28 April 1943, Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose was transferred to I-29 to became the only civilian exchanged between two submarines of two different navies in World War II.

Military colony

Military Colony is old name of Subhaschandra Bose colony (S.C Bose Colony or Bose Colony) under Kalla Mandal in west Godavari, Andhra Pradesh,India-534236.Military Colony or Bose colony is mainly divided in three colonies i.e. Military Colony-1,2 and 3 and Modi Village (Military colony-2).

Rimini Protokoll

"Call Cutta", one of their recent works, was based on outsourcing: The performers or 'experts', who were employees of a call center, were located in Salt Lake, Calcutta, India, providing the audience in Berlin, Germany with individual cell phone performances, with each call center agent guiding just one spectator solely through the remote maze of lanes of Kreuzberg, Berlin, narrating the story of Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian revolutionarist freedom fighter.

S. K. Majumdar

Although a Barrister in his own right, he is remembered more for his work on biographical works on Mohandas K. Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Subhas Chandra Bose.

Sachsenburg concentration camp

The Spanish author Emilio Calderón claims in his novel "La Bailarina y el Inglés" that in the town of Frankenberg the Nazis had a broadcasting facility that helped Subhas Chandra Bose, the assigned leader of India after the Endsieg, to propagate his ideological views to his countrymen all over the globe (see: La Bailarina y el Inglés by Emilio Calderón, ed. Grupo Planeta, Barcelona 2009).

Subhas Chandra Bose's political views

He criticized the British during World War II, saying that while Britain was fighting for the freedom of the European nations under Nazi control, it would not grant independence to its own colonies, including India.

Subhas Chandra Bose's political views were in support of complete freedom for India at the earliest, whereas most of the Congress Committee wanted it in phases, through a Dominion status.


Colonel C. W. Bowles

Colonel Bowles was in charge of constructing its workshops, houses, schools, churches, hospitals, armory, recreational facilities and a gaol, which once held two very important Indian political prisoners, Subhas Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru.

Hemanta Kumar Sarkar

Later he was shifted to a larger cell which he shared with Chittaranjan Das, Birendranath Sasmal and Subhas Chandra Bose.

Mohan Lal Sukhadia

In college, he came in contact with prominent national leaders like Subhas Chandra Bose, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Yusuf Meherally and Ashok Mehta.

Shubhashgram

It is named after the great Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose as his ancestral house was at this village, before his parents moved to Cuttack, Orissa.

Tsunamasa Shidei

He is presumed to have died in a plane crash with Subhas Chandra Bose at Taipei Songshan Airport on August 18, 1945, although there have been numerous conspiracy theories regarding the Death of Subhas Chandra Bose which shed some doubts on the events surrounding his death.