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What is the Full Form of INA?

In 1942, Imperial Japan and the Indian Nationalists joined forces to form the Indian National Army, which is also known as the “Azad Hind Fauj." This army was established during World War II to support India's fight for independence from British domination. After the Fall of Singapore, around 45,000 Indian Prisoners of War (POW) gathered at Farrer Park on 17th February 1942, and all POWs were handed over to the Japanese by the British. Mohan Singh a Captain in the Punjab Regiment of the British Army first commander-in cheif under the leadership of Raas Bihari bose who created INA out of the Indian POWs of the British Army who had been handed over to Japan. The INA eventually split up, although Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose helped the organization reform. As an Indian Nationalist, Subhash Chandra Bose worked extremely hard to oppose colonialism.

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1. What is the Full Form of INA?
2. Second INA (The Azad Hind Fauj)
3. INA Operations
4. INA after World War II

Second INA (The Azad Hind Fauj)

After Mohan Singh's acts enraged the Japanese Army Command, they agreed to establish a second Indian National Army. Subash Chandra Bose was proposed by Mohan Singh himself for the leadership role. Both the Imperial Japanese Army and the Indian diaspora in Southeast Asia were aware of his reputation as a devoted nationalist. They were therefore more receptive to the notion of a nationalist army under the command of Subash Chandra Bose. Subash Chandra Bose's activities in India compelled the British government to lock him up, but he managed to escape and make it to Berlin in 1941. Despite their sympathies for his cause, the German leadership was unable to support him because of logistical problems when he tried to organize an army to fight the British. Subash Chandra Bose landed in Singapore in July 1943 to take command of the second Indian National Army at the personal invitation of the Japanese, who were prepared to support him.

INA Operations

There were plenty of volunteers who were eager to join the INA following Subash Chandra Bose's assumption of command of the Azad Hind Fauj. Subash Chandra Bose concurred that the INA should continue to report to the Japanese Army, but he considered this a necessary sacrifice for achieving the ultimate objective of releasing India from the British Empire. The Azad Hind Fauj participated in the Japanese invasion of British India during Operation U-Go in 1944. The battles of Imphal and Kohima (fought on April 4, 1944), in which the British dealt the Japanese Army a terrible loss, caused the INA to retreat after some early triumphs. During this withdrawal, the INA suffered significant losses in both troops and equipment. Several regiments were abolished or fed into new divisions of the Japanese Army, which was then in decline.

The majority of the INA personnel were taken prisoner by the British when the Japanese were defeated in World War 2. In September 1945, a plane crash in Taiwan is said to have claimed the life of Subash Chandra Bose, who managed to escape captivity.

INA after World War II

• The British Colonial authority intended to prosecute the INA survivors for treason after the Second World War. The Red Fort was to serve as the site of the trials and the British decision to make the Red Fort proceedings public.

• However, turned out to be a serious error of judgment because it gave rise to a fresh wave of nationalism that had never been seen before during the entire Independence Struggle.

• Rather than betraying an empire they had never wanted to fight for, the Indians saw them as patriots battling for independence.

• As the trial went on, there was mutiny in the British Indian Army, particularly in the Royal Indian Navy.

• Although the mutiny was swiftly crushed, the British soon realised they were losing the army, the very institution that had been keeping them in power for so long.

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