Rash Behari Bose was one of the prominent and the greatest revolutionaries of India. He was one of the unacclaimed heroes of the Indian freedom struggle, who fought selflessly to free the nation from the colonial rule. He was a revolutionary leader of exceptional rank and was also a great planner, a master of masquerade, the organizer of the Indian National Army. He was involved in various revolutionary activities.
Background
The unsung hero of the freedom movement of India, Rash Behari Bose was born on 25th May 1886 in the Subaldaha Village of Burdwan District, West Bengal. He was the eldest in the family of four children and his father was Binod Bihari Bose, who was a clerk in the Government Press at Patna. Since the student days, he was an active member of the Yugantar group of revolutionaries under the leadership of Motilal Roy. As he was more fascinated in arranging furtive revolutionary activities than in his studies and he had learned the artifice of making rudimentary bombs before he passed his matriculation. His interest and involvement in revolutionary activities led him to become a great leader and despite his parents wanted, he refused to join college.
Contribution towards the freedom movement of India
However, his wish did not last long and he had to join college. During his college days, he was highly stirred with the revolutionary ideas and Charu Chand, his teacher, who made a remarkable impact in his life. He worked as a guardian tutor, copy holder in press, and as a clerk and owing to these he could not complete his college education. The Bengal Partition in the year 1905 made him get completely involved in the freedom movement of India and carried on with his revolutionary activities. As he was revolutionary by nature and thus he thought that India can attain freedom only with upheaval and not by any other means. He together with Aurobindo Ghosh and Jatin Banerjee, led the public outburst against the British but had to escape from Bengal because of an off beam feat. In 1906, the Bengal wing of the revolutionary party sent him to Dehra Dun to convince the members of the Indian army and become revolutionary party. In order to fulfil the purpose, he tried to get himself enrolled in the army but he could not and he joined the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, as a junior officer. He was trying to raise recruits from among the Bengali residents in Dehra Dun and retained close contact with the revolutionary leaders in Bengal and Punjab. The job in the Forest Department proved to be helpful for him to implement his plans for manufacturing bombs and managing the revolutionary movement from places which the Government did not deduce as well as easily locate. He soon became known as an effective leader of the revolutionary movement in North India and was a valuable linkage between the revolutionaries of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh along with Bengal. He visited the whole of North India from Punjab to Bengal in order to initiate centralization and consistency in the revolutionary movement. He organized a meeting of the workers of various revolutionary groups and as a result a central working committee was formed.
In the year 1912, a plan was made to assassinate the Viceroy of India, Lord Charles Hardinge. It was his plan and to give result to his plan, on 23rd December, 1912, when he reached Chandni Chowk (Delhi) and planted a bomb, which was aimed at Hardinge but sadly it killed 21 public and managed to escape He was also riveted in several other conspiracies against British rule and among the most prominent ones, the Ghadar Conspiracy was one of those. But unfortunately an informer, told the police about it and the plan did not succeed. Several suspects of this conspiracy were arrested but Rash Behari Bose managed to escape again.
On 12th May 1915 Rash Behari left Calcutta and went to Japan. For the duration of 1915-1918 he changed places for about seventeen times and remained furtively. In the year 1918, he married Tosiko the daughter of Pan-Asian supporters Soma Aizo and Soma Kotsuko, who were compassionate towards Rash Behari's hard work and in 1923, he got Japanese citizen. He with the support and help of Japanese, unrelenting supported the freedom movement of India and stood by the Indian Nationalists. On 28th March 1942, a conference was held in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, where it was decided that the Indian Independence League will be established and Subhash Chandra Bose will be made the President of it. The Indian prisoners of Japan in Malaya and Burma were also motivated to join the Indian Independence League and the Indian National Army. In the year 1942, Rash Behari Bose, along with Captain Mohan Singh and Sardar Pritam Singh formed the Indian National Army, which came to be known as the Azad Hind Fauz. On 21st January 1945, Rash Behari Bose was killed. He was a man of enormous courage and his effort towards making India a free nation cannot be overlooked. He was a great son of India, who fought for the freedom of India without any expectation in return.
Birth: 25th May 1886
Death: 21st January 1945
Achievement: He formed the Indian Independence League and the Indian National Army
Background
The unsung hero of the freedom movement of India, Rash Behari Bose was born on 25th May 1886 in the Subaldaha Village of Burdwan District, West Bengal. He was the eldest in the family of four children and his father was Binod Bihari Bose, who was a clerk in the Government Press at Patna. Since the student days, he was an active member of the Yugantar group of revolutionaries under the leadership of Motilal Roy. As he was more fascinated in arranging furtive revolutionary activities than in his studies and he had learned the artifice of making rudimentary bombs before he passed his matriculation. His interest and involvement in revolutionary activities led him to become a great leader and despite his parents wanted, he refused to join college.
Contribution towards the freedom movement of India
However, his wish did not last long and he had to join college. During his college days, he was highly stirred with the revolutionary ideas and Charu Chand, his teacher, who made a remarkable impact in his life. He worked as a guardian tutor, copy holder in press, and as a clerk and owing to these he could not complete his college education. The Bengal Partition in the year 1905 made him get completely involved in the freedom movement of India and carried on with his revolutionary activities. As he was revolutionary by nature and thus he thought that India can attain freedom only with upheaval and not by any other means. He together with Aurobindo Ghosh and Jatin Banerjee, led the public outburst against the British but had to escape from Bengal because of an off beam feat. In 1906, the Bengal wing of the revolutionary party sent him to Dehra Dun to convince the members of the Indian army and become revolutionary party. In order to fulfil the purpose, he tried to get himself enrolled in the army but he could not and he joined the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, as a junior officer. He was trying to raise recruits from among the Bengali residents in Dehra Dun and retained close contact with the revolutionary leaders in Bengal and Punjab. The job in the Forest Department proved to be helpful for him to implement his plans for manufacturing bombs and managing the revolutionary movement from places which the Government did not deduce as well as easily locate. He soon became known as an effective leader of the revolutionary movement in North India and was a valuable linkage between the revolutionaries of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh along with Bengal. He visited the whole of North India from Punjab to Bengal in order to initiate centralization and consistency in the revolutionary movement. He organized a meeting of the workers of various revolutionary groups and as a result a central working committee was formed.
In the year 1912, a plan was made to assassinate the Viceroy of India, Lord Charles Hardinge. It was his plan and to give result to his plan, on 23rd December, 1912, when he reached Chandni Chowk (Delhi) and planted a bomb, which was aimed at Hardinge but sadly it killed 21 public and managed to escape He was also riveted in several other conspiracies against British rule and among the most prominent ones, the Ghadar Conspiracy was one of those. But unfortunately an informer, told the police about it and the plan did not succeed. Several suspects of this conspiracy were arrested but Rash Behari Bose managed to escape again.
On 12th May 1915 Rash Behari left Calcutta and went to Japan. For the duration of 1915-1918 he changed places for about seventeen times and remained furtively. In the year 1918, he married Tosiko the daughter of Pan-Asian supporters Soma Aizo and Soma Kotsuko, who were compassionate towards Rash Behari's hard work and in 1923, he got Japanese citizen. He with the support and help of Japanese, unrelenting supported the freedom movement of India and stood by the Indian Nationalists. On 28th March 1942, a conference was held in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, where it was decided that the Indian Independence League will be established and Subhash Chandra Bose will be made the President of it. The Indian prisoners of Japan in Malaya and Burma were also motivated to join the Indian Independence League and the Indian National Army. In the year 1942, Rash Behari Bose, along with Captain Mohan Singh and Sardar Pritam Singh formed the Indian National Army, which came to be known as the Azad Hind Fauz. On 21st January 1945, Rash Behari Bose was killed. He was a man of enormous courage and his effort towards making India a free nation cannot be overlooked. He was a great son of India, who fought for the freedom of India without any expectation in return.
Birth: 25th May 1886
Death: 21st January 1945
Achievement: He formed the Indian Independence League and the Indian National Army