Person · revolutionary & INA founder
Rash Behari Bose
Also known as Rash Behari
Rash Behari Bose (25 May 1886 - 21 January 1945), the Bengal revolutionary who led the 23 December 1912 Delhi Durbar bombing against Viceroy Lord Hardinge and later founded the Indian National Army (INA) in Japan in 1942. Born at Subaldaha in Bardhaman district, West Bengal, Bose escaped India in 1915 to Japan after the Hindu-German Conspiracy's collapse. In Japan he married a Japanese woman and became a Japanese citizen in 1923. In 1942 he founded the INA from Japanese-held Indian POWs after the Fall of Singapore, handing command to Subhas Chandra Bose in July 1943. He died at Tokyo on 21 January 1945. The 1969 Japan statue and the 2015 Japan commemoration honour his legacy.
- Date
- 1886–1945
- Function
- Social reform & movement
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
Connections (1)
- Court associationBagha Jatin
Bagha Jatin (Jatindranath Mukherjee) and Rash Behari Bose were the two chief leaders of the 1915 Hindu-German Conspiracy that attempted to smuggle German arms into India during World War I to spark a Bengal uprising. Bagha Jatin died at the Balasore battle on 10 September 1915; Rash Behari Bose escaped to Japan in 1915 and continued the independence work until founding the INA in 1942.
Sources
Standard biography; regional historiography.
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