Netaji's Great Escape and the Indian National Army
In January 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose walked out of his own house in Calcutta while British CID agents watched the gate. For ten days they guarded an empty room. By the time they realised he was gone, Netaji was across the North-West Frontier, and within a year his voice was on the radio calling on India to rise.
From Peshawar, Kabul and Moscow, to a submarine in the Indian Ocean, to Singapore, where he took command of a broken force and rebuilt it into an army of 50,000, including the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, one of the first all-female combat units of the Second World War.
Chapters
00:00 The empty room
00:49 The vanishing act
05:55 90 days in the dark
11:20 The march into hell
17:20 INA trails
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The Great Escape of Netaji, with full sources.
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