Azad Hind government 1943
Also called: Provisional Government of Free India · Topic: The National Movement: Gandhian Era · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
The Azad Hind government was a temporary government of "Free India" set up by Subhas Chandra Bose in South-East Asia during the Second World War. It ran the Indian National Army (INA), which fought the British alongside Japan. Japan and its allies recognised it. It declared war on Britain and the USA.
Example
Bose proclaimed the government in Singapore on 21 October 1943. Japan then handed it the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, though only on paper. On 30 December 1943 Bose raised the national flag at Port Blair.
Don't confuse with
- Provisional Government of India (Kabul, 1915): Raja Mahendra Pratap set up this earlier government-in-exile in Afghanistan during the First World War. It had no army fighting in the field.
Related concepts
- Provincial elections of 1937
- Congress ministries 1937-39
- Wardha scheme of basic education
- Congress Socialist Party
- Haripura session 1938
- Tripuri crisis 1939
- Forward Bloc
- Second World War
- Lord Linlithgow
- Resignation of Congress ministries