Rash Bihari Bose

• The death anniversary of Rash Bihari Bose was observed recently on January 21^st.

ABOUT RASH BIHARI BOSE

• Born in Subaldaha village, Bardhaman District in West Bengal on 25 May 1886, he was a revolutionary freedom fighter.
• He was deeply influenced by the 1789 French Revolution.
• He became acquainted with Jatin Mukherjee alias Bagha Jatin and got involved with the revolutionary freedom fighters of Bengal.
• He was the mastermind behind the assassination attempt on the then Viceroy Lord Hardinge in December 1912.
  • This incident later became known as the Delhi Conspiracy Case.
  • However, Hardinge managed to escape with minor injuries.
  • There was a big man-hunt to capture Bose and his accomplices but Bose never got caught.
  • Three others involved Basant Kumar Biswas, Avadh Behari and Amir Chand were caught, tried and executed.
• Bose was associated with Gadar Movement and after its failure, managed to elude arrest once again and fled to Japan in 1915.
• He married a Japanese woman and became a Japanese citizen in 1923.
• In Japan, he advocated the independence of India and urged the Japanese government to support the Indian nationalist movement.
• He founded the Indian Independence League in March 1942.
• He died on 21^st January 1945 in Tokyo due to tuberculosis.
• He was conferred the honour- ‘Order of the Rising Sun’ by the Japanese government.