 Subhash Chandra Bose, popularly known as Netaji, a born rebel, occupies an honoured place in the history of Indian independence movement.
Subhash Chandra Bose was born on Saturday, the 23rd, January, 1897. His father Janakinath Bose migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer.Subhas Chandra was born in Cuttack only. His father descended from the Boses of Maihar while his mother Prabhabati belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hatkhola. |
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Subhas was sent to school at the age of five. It was a missionary school meant primarily for Europeans and Anglo-Indian boys and girls.In 1909, he shook hands with his headmaster and said good bye to the school. He then joined the Ravenshaw Collegiate School in Cuttack. From the same school, he sat for the Matriculation Examination in March, 1913 and came out second in the whole University. Then he was packed off to Calcutta by his parents, to join the Presidency College, then regarded as the premier College of the Calcutta University. Due to some reason or other, Bose was expelled from Presidency College. Later he joined the Scottish Church college with honours in Philosophy. From the same college, he appeared for the B. A. examination in 1919. He got first-class honours in B. A. and was placed second in order of merit. For his M. A., he decided to do experimental psychology but he was not destined to continue it for more than a few months as he had to set out to study philosophy in Cambridge and qualify for the Indian Civil Service. He successfully qualified for the exam but chose to resign the service and devote himself to national work. He came back to India and joined the freedom struggle as a lieutenant of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan. It was the time when the non-cooperation movement of 1921 was at its height. After sixteen years of tireless work, several prison terms and long periods of exile, he was chosen by Mahatma Gandhi to be the president of the Indian National Congress for 1938. He became the president but after a few days he moved to resign his presidency after a disagreement about the selection of the Working Committee. Thereafter he formed the Forward Bloc, a group working against the British Raj.
Top In 1941, Bose was confined as a prisoner at home, but he made a clever escape to Malaya. Reaching Malaya, Bose with the help of the Japanese, arranged systematically, the Indian National Army(INA) and set up the Provisional Government of Azad Hind. It is believed that after the INA and Japanese were beaten in Burma, Bose fled and was killed in a plane crash in Taiwan in August 1945. There is a lot of controversy about his death. Top |
