Indian National Army (INA) in Indian History:
- The idea of Indian National Army was first conceived by Mohan Singh at Malaya, an officer in British Indian Army.
- The first division of INA was formed in September 1942 with Japanese help.
- Subash Chandra Bose began to associate with INA by July 1943. The command was handed over by Rash Bihari Bose
- To the Indians Subash Chandra Bose said ‘you give me blood I will give you freedom’.
- Subash Chandra Bose set up two INA headquarters at Rangoon and Singapore.
- The women’s regiment called the ‘Rani Jhansi’ regiment was under Captain Lekshmi Segal.
- He was the first to address Gandhiji as the ‘Father of the nation’’ in his appeal on the ‘Azad Hind Radio’ Singapore.
- In may 1944 INA captured Mowdok and hoisted the tri-colour flag on Indian soil.
- The Japanese government handed over the Andaman and Nickobar island to him which were renamed ‘Shaheed and Swaraj’ islands respectively.
- The INA troops surrendered before the British army in 1945.
- The British Government of India charged INA soldiers of waging war against the king. The trials were held in the Red Fort in Delhi.
- The first three accused were capt. P.K. Sehgal , Capt. Shah Nawaz and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon.
- Subash Chandra Bose was born at Cuttack in Orissa.
- He appeared for the Indian Civil Service in 1920 and passed with merit, but resigned before completing his probation in April 1921, he joined the Congress and plunged into the national movement who was supported by Gandhiji
- He resigned the Presidentship of INC in April 1939 and founded All India Forward Block and the Kisan Sabha
- But in January 1941, he escaped out of India and reached Berlin (Germany) from where he arrived in Singapore in 1943.
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