Bose raises the Indian National Army
1943 · Event
The road not taken by Gandhi: Subhas Chandra Bose — escaped from house arrest, arrived in Asia by German and Japanese submarine — takes command of an army of Indian prisoners-of-war to fight the Raj alongside Japan, proclaiming 'give me blood, and I shall give you freedom'. The INA fails at Imphal, but its post-war trials at the Red Fort ignite the loyalty crisis — including naval mutiny — that convinces London the Raj cannot be held.
On these timelines: Gandhi's Road to Independence, India, Master, World War II, British Empire
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- Quit India Movement (1942)
- Gandhi returns to India (1915)
- Gandhi launches satyagraha in South Africa (1906)
- Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (1909)
- Gandhi begins his last fast (1948)
- Gandhi walks through Noakhali (1946)
- Naidu leads the Dharasana Satyagraha (1930)
- Subhas Chandra Bose resigns the Congress presidency (1939)
Around 1943
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)