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Subhas Chandra Bose: The Afterlife of India’s
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By Hugh Purcell (/taxonomy/term/281) | Published in History Today (/taxonomy/term/43) Volume: 60 Issue:
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The intriguing death of an Indian holy man in 1985 suggested that he was none other than Subhas Chandra Bose, the revolutionary and nationalist who, it is officially claimed, died in an air crash in 1945. The truth, however, is harder to find, as Hugh Purcell discovers.
Mohandas K. Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose at the Indian National Congress annual meeting in Haripura in
1938
On September 16th, 1985, in a dilapidated house in Faizabad, formerly the capital of Oudh province in India, a reclusive holy man known as Bhagwanji or Gumnami Baba (‘the saint with no name’) breathed his last. Locals had long suspected that he was none other than
Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945), the Indian quasi-Fascist leader who in the 1930s had advocated a violent revolution against the British Empire to gain total independence for
India.The Second World War had enabled him to practise what he preached and his Indian
National Army had fought with the Japanese in Burma attempting to drive the British out of the subcontinent.
Although Netaji (Great Leader) Bose was reported killed in an air crash in August 1945, while trying to escape to the Soviet Union, many believed then and continue to believe now that, helped by his Japanese allies, he faked his death, reached Russia and returned to India many years later to lead the secret life of a hermit. Surprisingly for a poor
Subhas Chandra Bose: The Afterlife of India’s Fascist Leader | History Today
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Subhas Chandra Bose: The Afterlife of India’s
Fascist Leader
By Hugh Purcell (/taxonomy/term/281) | Published in History Today (/taxonomy/term/43) Volume: 60 Issue:
11 (/taxonomy/term/23086) 2010 (/taxonomy/term/14784)
Tw eet
71
10
Like
851
(/PRI NT/66186)
DECOLONISATION (/TAXONOMY /TERM/22516)
20TH CENTURY (/TAXONOMY /TERM/14830)
(/PRI NTMAI L/66186)
POLITICAL (/TAXONOMY /TERM/47)
INDIA (/TAXONOMY /TERM/14071)
The intriguing death of an Indian holy man in 1985 suggested that he was none other than Subhas Chandra Bose, the revolutionary and nationalist who, it is officially claimed, died in an air crash in 1945. The truth, however, is harder to find, as Hugh Purcell discovers.
Mohandas K. Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose at the Indian National Congress annual meeting in Haripura in
1938
On September 16th, 1985, in a dilapidated house in Faizabad, formerly the capital of Oudh province in India, a reclusive holy man known as Bhagwanji or Gumnami Baba (‘the saint with no name’) breathed his last. Locals had long suspected that he was none other than
Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945), the Indian quasi-Fascist leader who in the 1930s had advocated a violent revolution against the British Empire to gain total independence for
India.The Second World War had enabled him to practise what he preached and his Indian
National Army had fought with the Japanese in Burma attempting to drive the British out of the subcontinent.
Although Netaji (Great Leader) Bose was reported killed in an air crash in August 1945, while trying to escape to the Soviet Union, many believed then and continue to believe now that, helped by his Japanese allies, he faked his death, reached Russia and returned to India many years later to lead the secret life of a hermit. Surprisingly for a poor