Subhash Chandra Bose (1896–1945) was a politician and a liberation fighter from Bengal.
Before World War II, Bose ran for the Congress Party's leadership against Mohandas K. Gandhi, but lost.
- Bose, unlike Gandhi, was eager for the British to go and was prepared to use force to do it.
- During World War II, Bose enlisted the help of the Japanese to create the Indian National Army (INA), whose goal was to drive the British out of India by force.
- Starting in Singapore, the INA marched 5,000 kilometers throughout Southeast Asia until being crushed by the British army at Kohima in eastern India.
- Despite eyewitness evidence that Bose died from burns sustained in an aircraft crash during the Pacific War's last days, many Bengalis think he is still alive and living in secret.
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