Subhash Chandra Bose -

The great freedom

fighter
A book on Subhash Chandra Bose’s life

Shayan Biswas

Class VIII - A

Roll no.: 35

The whole life of the great freedom fighter, Subhash Chandra Bose has been abbreviated through
pictures in the book. The book will be very interesting for children.
 He was born on 23 January 1897 in Cuttack.

His father’s name was Janaki Nath and

his mother’s name was Prabhavati He entered the Baptist Mission's Protestant
Devi. He had 10 brothers and 3 sisters. European School in Cuttack in Jan 1902.

Although his
western education
The school choice was of his father, continued apace,
who wanted him to speak flawless His mother worshipped the Hindu he began to wear
English, which was in contrast to his goddesses Durga & Kali, told stories from Indian clothes and
home, where only Bengali was the epics Mahabharata & Ramayana, & sang engage in religious
spoken. Bengali religious songs. speculation.

Subhas Bose followed his five brothers again 1913 to Presidency College, Calcutta, the historic and traditional college for Bengal's upper-
caste Hindu men. But he was soon rusticated from the college for his ‘anti-British’ or ‘Swadeshi’ acts.
After being rusticated, he returned to Cuttack and started helping general public like patients who were not taken care of, and feeding food
to the poor.

The people praised him a lot for his work. He was

suggested to complete his studies. He gained admission in the Scottish Church College.

He gave the I.C.S. Examination at the age

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of 22 and stood 4 . But, since his
intention was to free India form Britain’s
rule, he didn’t join the British services.
He returned back to India. He said that
he gave the examination just to educate
himself. His resignation shocked
everyone. He talked to Gandhiji. But
their principles were completely
He wanted to be trained in military so that he could
opposite. Subhash supported violence
fight for Indian independence afterwards. He
and Gandhi non - violence. Thus, he
continued his studies side-by-side.
suggested Subhash to work with
Deshbandhu, the first mayor of Calcutta
(now Kolkata).

Deshbandhu had taken up the job of a principal to make his living. But after
some days, he was sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment for anti-
government activities. He led a party called Swaraj party. After he was
released, the Calcutta Co-operation elections were held and the party had
bagged almost all the seats. Deshbandhu became the mayor and Subhash
became the Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.). Things developed under them very
quickly. Subhas, as the C.E.O. personally inspected the work of the municipal
staff on the streets.
Seeing the party’s efforts, the government declared demonstrations, processions or Subhash’s imprisonment was followed
meetings as illegal. One day, a European was arrested. The government could easily by revolt of the public to free Subhash.
found that the murderer was Gopinath Saha but still Subhash was arrested for no In fear of this Subhash was moved to
reason. Mandalay Jail in Burma. The living
conditions were very poor. Subhash was
infected by Tuberculosis. He was
granted freedom for a few days. But
Subhash refused it. The British
Government had no choice but to give
him complete freedom. Deshbandhu
died soon after his release. He was sent
to jail again for his anti-government
works. But he was elected mayor and
the people again started revolting.
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Subhash was again released. On 26
January, he led some processions but
was caught by the police and their lathis.

He was sent to jail in Rangoon. He fell sick. He was sent to

Vienna for treatment. There his health became better. He
toured many countries of Europe to promote the cause of
Indian freedom. He got the message that his father was
dying. He returned to India without the Government’s
permission. He was arrested for that reason. By the time
he was free, his father was dead. Thus, he didn’t go from
Bombay to Calcutta, and returned to Europe. He was
elected President of the Congress.
He decided that since the war in Europe was eminent, they could declare war on Europe. But due to
Gandhi’s principles, he resigned.

After his resignation, he formed a forward bloc, which decided that they would destroy the Holwell monument. But before they could do
so, he was imprisoned. He got out of the jail disguised as a bearded Muslim in a black car. He organized the Indian national army with the
help of Indian prisoners of war and formed the Indian independence league. He met Hitler and sought for his help. But Germany was too
far off to wage a war against the British in India. He travelled by a German submarine to Japan. From Tokyo he came to Singapore, where
he was received by Rash Behari Bose and other revolutionaries. Here Subhash raised an army with Indian prisoners of war captured by the
Japanese. He also formed the Rani of Jhansi regiment with Indian girls, to nurse the soldiers.

At his call, the Indian residents donated generously for the cause.
Give me blood, I
promise you The Imphal Kohima road in Assam was cut off by the advancing
freedom forces. Imphal was completely surrounded by the I.N.A. forces
and the Japanese. But the British resistance in Imphal was strong
and unyielding.

The Japanese were retreating everywhere. The I.N.A. depended

on Japan for arms and food. Its supplies were cut. The heavy
monsoon burst on them. The British thrust forward. The I.N.A.
had to give up along with the Japanese and retreat. The British
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American forces were looking for Netaji. Thus, on August 17 ,
Netaji boarded a Japanese plane for some unknown destination
with Col. Habibur Rahman.