Subhas Chandra Bose: Accelerator of India’s Independence

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was a freedom fighter with a difference. He was a radical, a revolutionary and, above all, a missionary, whose only mission in life was to secure India’s freedom, for which he lived and died. The means he applied raised conventional eyebrows – the were certainly unorthodox – and his forthright opinions and clash of views with Mahatma Gandhi ultimately led to his alienation from the Congress mainstream, which found his approach a little too militant. Unfazed, even though he was sidelined and expelled from the Congress, Bose continued his struggle from abroad, trying to harness the military powers of that time – Germany and Japan – to fight against British imperialism. Single-handedly, he carried on the propaganda for India’s independence across Europe and later in South-East Asia, exposing to the world the true state of affairs in his enslaved motherland. A little-conceded fact is that it was ultimately Bose and his INA who put the final pressure on the British Government to hasten the transfer of power, by sparking off the Naval Mutiny which convinced the British like nothing else could that the days of the Raj were well and truly over. This book endeavours to portray and highlight Subhas Chandra Bose in the light of this single most important contribution of his to the national freedom struggle.