India's divided loyalties? (Indian National Army led by Subhas Chandra Bose joined the Japanese in World War II to fight the British)(Cover Story)

From: History Today | Date: July 1, 1995| Author: Heehs, Peter | Copyright information

Bose is considered a patriot and a saint by many in India for working with the Japanese against the British in the 1940s. The formation of the Indian National Army, its role in the Japanese action in India, and the subsequent fate of the soldiers after the fall of the Japanese, is recounted.

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