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The Provisional Government of Free India or, more simply, Azad Hind, [3] [4] was a short-lived Japanese-controlled provisional government in India. [5] It was established in Japanese occupied Singapore during World War II in October 1943 and has been considered a puppet state of the Empire of Japan .
The Azad Hind administration took control of this independent Indian territory. [10] [11] Meanwhile, the 1st battalion of the INA's 1st Guerrilla regiment, lightly armed, was directed to towards the south to participate in the diversionary attack. [12] The unit left Rangoon in early February at reach Prome.
Indian POWs in Derna, Libya, 1941.. The first troops of the Indian Legion were recruited from Indian POWs captured at El Mekili, Libya during the battles for Tobruk.The German forces in the Western Desert selected a core group of 27 POWs as potential officers and they were flown to Berlin in May 1941, to be followed, after the Centro I experiment, by POWs being transferred from the Italian ...
Battaglione Azad Hindoustan (in Italian: Battaglione India libera - "Free India Battalion") was a foreign legion unit formed in Fascist Italy under the Raggruppamento Centri Militari in July 1942. The unit, raised initially as Centro I , was headed by Mohammad Iqbal Shedai [ 2 ] – a long term Indian resident of Rome – and was formed of ...
Monument of INA Martyrs at Kolkata. The Indian National Army (INA; Azad Hind Fauj / ˈ ɑː z ɑː ð ˈ h i n ð ˈ f ɔː dʒ /; lit. 'Free Indian Army') was a collaborationist unit of Indian fighters under the command of the Japanese Empire. [1]
The Free India Centre (German: Zentrale Freies Indien) was the European branch of the Azad Hind, provisional government led by Subhas Chandra Bose. It was founded by Bose when he was in Nazi Germany in 1942, and headed by A. C. N. Nambiar .
The Provisional Government of India, sometimes also called the Provisional Government of Azad Hind, was created by Indian nationalists-in-exile in October 1943. [ 21 ] : 411 According to Subhas Chandra Bose in a proclamation issued on 4 April 1944, the government was formed in Syonan-to (formerly Singapore) after an invasion of Singapore.
The Sardar-e-Jung (Leader of Battle) was the second highest military decoration by the awarded by the Azad Hind Government. First instituted by Subhas Chandra Bose in Germany, it was later also awarded to troops of the Indian National Army in South East Asia. The award could be conferred with swords for valour in combat, and without swords for ...