Rash Behari Bose
Topic: The National Movement: Gandhian Era · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
Rash Behari Bose was a revolutionary who believed in armed struggle against British rule. He planned the bomb attack on Viceroy Hardinge in Delhi (1912) and the Ghadar plan for an army rising in 1915. When the rising failed, he escaped to Japan. There he founded the Indian Independence League. In 1943 he handed over the Indian National Army (INA) to Subhas Chandra Bose.
Example
In December 1912 a bomb was thrown at Viceroy Hardinge during his state entry into Delhi, and Rash Behari Bose was its planner. Decades later, in Japan, he worked with the Japanese to organise Indian soldiers into the INA.
Don't confuse with
- Subhas Chandra Bose: a former Congress president who took command of the INA in 1943 and led it into battle. Rash Behari Bose built the organisation before him.
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