Netaji's Armed Struggle in Southeast Asia and the Ina Trials

Abstract

This study examines the years from 1943 to 1946 with regards to the activities of Bose. The study also analyses the extraordinary place of Bose among Indian revolutionaries and the characteristics that set him apart from his kindred revolutionaries which allowed him to single-handedly create a "Free India" movement in Occupied Europe and Southeast Asia. The reshaping of Indian National Army by Bose and the internal dynamics and limitations of the movements that Bose headed with Japanese collaboration is also examined. This study critically examines the job of Bose in taking over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the degree of achievement of his visit to Andaman as the head of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The points of interest of Bose's strategies for alliances, armed struggles and revolting against the British are critically analyzed. The study also takes a gander at how the INC saw the activities of Bose and the Free India struggle during the war and how it used the countrywide turmoil in favor of Bose during the INA Officers Trial of 1945 for their own closures. The study finishes up by looking at how the British saw Bose during this period, the precautions they took against the Indian National Army and the impact of the INA Officers Trial of 1945.