Rash Behari Bose

Rash Behari Bose was one of the unsung heroes of the Indian freedom struggle. He was a revolutionary leader of outstanding class. He was a great organizer, a master of disguise,the organizer of the Indian National Army. He was involved in various revolutionary activities and wanted by the British but he managed to escape and reached Japan, where he continued his patriotic activities.

Bose was born in the year 1886 in the Burdwan District, Bengal. He completed his education in Chandennagore. He got involved in the revolution against the British from a very early age and was implicated in the Alipore bomb case ( 1908 ). After his release from jail he went to Dehradun join as a head clerk at the Forest Research Institute. However it did not stop him to get in touch with the revolutionaries secretly. He was hunted by the British police due to his participation in the failed bomb hurling attempt on the Viceroy Lord Charles Hardinge in Delhi. He planned a pan India revolution but it failed and most of the revolutionist were arrested. However Bose managed to escape and reach Japan in 1915.

In Japan, Bose persuaded the Japanese authorities to give active support to the Indian Nationalists in their struggle for freedom. Two conventions in Tokyo and Bangkok were held and the Indian Independence league was established and Netaji Subash Chandra Bose was invited to take the President ship of the League. Indian prisoners in the Malay and Burma front who were captured by the Japanese were encouraged to join the Indian National Army- the military wing of the league. The leadership was later passed onto Netaji and under him the formidable- ' Azad Hind Fauz' was born.

The Japanese Government honored him with the 'Second Order of the Merit of the Rising Sun' before his death. After his demise ( January 21, 1945 ) the imperial coach was sent to carry his body- a great honor. He will be remembered as one the greatest sons of India.

Kanishka Harshvardhana Ashoka Chandragupta Maurya Babar Sher Shah Suri Prithviraj Chauhan Akbar Humayun Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Aruna Asaf Ali Mahatma Gandhi Bal Gangadhar Tilak Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Mangal Pandey