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The Department of Posts also includes the six unused Azad Hind stamps in its commemorative book India's Freedom Struggle through India Postage Stamps. [211] The Azad Hind Fauj Marg (Azad Hind Fauj Road) in New Delhi is named after the INA and houses the Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology. [213]
The direct origins of Azad Hind can be linked to two conferences of Indian expatriates from across Southeast Asia, the first of which was held in Tokyo in March 1942. [20] At this conference, convened by Rash Behari Bose , an Indian expatriate living in Japan, the Indian Independence League was established as the first move towards an ...
He selected the flag for the Azad Hind movement and handed over the flag and the power to Subhas Chandra Bose but his organizational structure remained which was built on the organizational spadework of Rash Behari Bose. Rash Behari Bose built the Indian National Army (also called 'Azad Hind Fauj').
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 ...
“A glorious chapter in the History of India's struggle for Freedom has come to a close and, in that chapter, the sons and daughters of India in East Asia will have an undying place.…You sent an unending stream of your sons and daughters to the camps to be trained as soldiers of the Azad Hind Fauj and of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment. Money ...
Thus the nucleus of what came to be the Ajad Hind Fauj also known as Indian National Army was born. [ 7 ] [ 6 ] Kuala Lumpur fell on 11 January 1942 with 3,500 Indian prisoners of war, and Singapore on 15 February with 85,000 British troops, of whom 45,000 were Indians.
It was founded by Bose when he was in Nazi Germany in 1942, and headed by A. C. N. Nambiar. Its responsibilities included managing relations with the European Axis powers , supporting and recruiting volunteers for the Indian Legion of the Waffen-SS , running Azad Hind Radio , and preparing for the much larger provisional government that was ...
[3] [4] [5] At the time of the fall of Rangoon, Kiani led the personnel of the Indian National Army and the Azad Hind Government who, along with Bose, marched to Bangkok. [4] After Bose flew to Tokyo in August 1945 , Kiani surrendered to the British 5th Division at Singapore on 25 August 1945 as the commander of the INA, along with the rest of ...