and gave the movement (and even the violence in a limited sense) a great push. Last Phase of Indian National Movement On July , , Subhas Chandra Bose, reached Singapore. From there he went to Tokyo and after a meeting with Prime Minister Tojo, the Japanese leader declared that his country did not desire territorial expansion into India. Bose returned to Singapore and set up the Provisional Government of Free India on October , .
This Provisional Government declared war against Britain and the other allied nations. The Axis powers recognised Bose’s Provisional Government as its ally. After the Indian National Congress acted against Bose in August , shunting him out of all offices including as president of the Bengal Congress Committee, Bose embarked upon a campaign trail, to mobilise support to his position, across India. He was arrested by the British on July , under the Defence of India Act.
and kept under constant surveillance. As the war progressed in Europe Bose believed that Germany was going to win. He began to nurture the idea that Indian independence could be achieved by joining hands with the Axis powers. In the midnight of January - , , Bose slipped out of Calcutta, and reached Berlin by the end of March, travelling through Kabul and the Soviet Union on an Italian passport.
Bose met Hitler and Goebbels in Berlin. Both the Nazi leaders were cold and the only concession they gave was to set up the Azad Hind Radio. Nothing more came out of his rendezvous with Hitler and his aides. With Germany facing reverses, Bose found his way to Singapore in July Subash and INA Bose enlisted civilians too into the INA and one of the regiments was made up of women.
The Rani of Jhansi regiment of the INA was commanded by a medical doctor and daughter of freedom fighter Ammu Swaminathan from Madras, Dr Lakshmi. On July , , Subhas Chandra Bose addressed a message to Gandhi colonial state, meanwhile, put forward a plan for negotiation.