| 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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