Names Rash Bihari Bose (a.k.a. Rashbihari Boshu)
Date of Birth May 25, 1886 – Burdwan Distt, West Bengal, India
Date of Death January 21, 1945 – Tokyo, Japan
Profession / Traits / Activities  Indian Independence movement, Ghadar Revolution, Indian National Army
Special Achievements / Events
  • He was a revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India.
  • He was one of the key organisers of the Ghadar conspiracy and later, the Indian National Army.
  • He earned degrees in the medical sciences as well as in Engineering from France and Germany.
  • He left Bengal to shun the Alipore bomb casetrails of (1908).
  • At Dehradun he worked as a head clerk at the Forest Research Institute. There he secretly got involved in the revolutionary activities of Bengal, through Amarendra Chatterjee of the Jugantar led by Jatin Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin).
  • Thanks to Jatindra Nath Banerjee alias Niralamba Swami, the earliest political disciple of Sri Aurobindo, he came across eminent revolutionary members of the Arya Samaj in the United Provinces (currently Uttar Pradesh) and the Punjab.
  • He convened a conference in Tokyo on 28–30 March 1942, which decided to establish the Indian Independence League.
  • He convened the second conference of the League at Bangkok on 22 June 1942. It was at this conference that a resolution was adopted to invite Subhas Chandra Bose to join the League and take its command as its president.
  • It was on the organisational spadework of Rash Bihari Bose that Subhash Chandra Bose later built the Indian National Army (also called 'Azad Hind Fauj').

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