Subhas Chandra Bose , livre ebook

Penguin Books Ltd - Anu Kumar

Découvre YouScribe en t'inscrivant gratuitement

Je m'inscris

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

67 pages

English

Vous pourrez modifier la taille du texte de cet ouvrage

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

A propos
Informations
Extrait

Description

Sujets

Lettres et linguistique

Informations

Publié par	Penguin Books Ltd
Date de parution	08 décembre 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9788184753127
Langue	English

Informations légales : prix de location à la page 0,0350€. Cette information est donnée uniquement à titre indicatif conformément à la législation en vigueur.

Extrait

Subhas Chandra Bose opposed Gandhi on several occasions, was at times also a bitter rival of Nehru, and waged war against Mountbatten. This is his story, and that of the alternative, armed struggle for Indian independence that he came to stand for—a story of the freedom struggle that ran in parallel and that left behind many heroes.
‘Give me blood and I will give you freedom.’ Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s words are deeply etched in the minds of millions of Indians. A great political thinker and radical nationalist, Netaji played a very active and prominent role in India’s political life. In the 1930s he was a leader of the Indian National Congress, and later of the Indian National Army (INA), during World War II. Read the mesmerizing account of the life of this charismatic leader whose only dream was to see his beloved motherland free from foreign rule.
This compelling biography gives us insightful details about Netaji’s legendary life, and throws light on his mysterious death in 1945. A shining example of leadership, integrity, sacrifice and valour, Netaji continues to inspire young readers even today.
I am the history bug. Watch out for me in the pages of this book as I bring to you interestion facts and unusual trivia from the past.
Cover illustration by Shiju George
PUFFIN BOOKS SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE

Anu Kumar is a writer and editor based in Gurgaon, India. She studied history at Lady Shriram College and also has a degree in management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Her first novel, Letters for Paul, was published by Mapin in 2006. She has written two books for young readers, Atisa and the Seven Wonders (Puffin, 2008) and In the Country of Gold-digging Ants (Puffin, 2009). The next Atisa book, Atisa and the Time Machine: Adventures with Hiuen Tsang, is due out shortly (Puffin Books).
Other books in the Puffin Lives series
Mother Teresa: Apostle of Love
by Rukmini Chawla
Jawaharlal Nehru: The Jewel of India
by Aditi De
Ashoka: The Great and Compassionate King
by Subhadra Sen Gupta
Rani Lakshmibai: The Valiant Queen of Jhansi
by Deepa Agarwal
Akbar: The Mighty Emperor
by Kavitha Mandana
Mahatma Gandhi: The Father of the Nation
by Subhadra Sen Gupta

PUFFIN BOOKS
Published by the Penguin Group
Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110 017, India
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA
Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.)
Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd)
Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd)
Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd)
Penguin Group (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa
Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
First published in Puffin by Penguin Books India 2010
Copyright © Anu Kumar 2010
All rights reserved
ISBN: 978-01-4333-132-2
This digital edition published in 2011.
e-ISBN: 978-81-8475-312-7
This e-book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser and without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above-mentioned publisher of this e-book.
Copyright
CHAPTER ONE Janakinath and Prabhavati Bose
CHAPTER TWO Bengal in the 1900s
CHAPTER THREE Schooldays
CHAPTER FOUR Learning to be Indian
CHAPTER FIVE The Making of a Rebel
CHAPTER SIX Leaving the ICS
CHAPTER SEVEN A Young Congressman of the 1920s
CHAPTER EIGHT Vision of Free India
CHAPTER NINE In Europe
CHAPTER TEN The Crisis Years
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Great Escape
CHAPTER TWELVE The Indian National Army
CHAPTER THIRTEEN INA in Action
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Netaji’s Death: Probes and Rumours
Trivia Treasury
1 Janakinath and Prabhavati Bose
Early in the morning of 17 January 1941, a car drew up silently near a home in Elgin Road, Calcutta. The house belonged to the well-known lawyer, Sarat Bose. His brother, Subhas Chandra Bose, had recently been released from jail. He had been determined to secure his release by going on a hunger strike and the government, unable to force-feed him, had given in. As the car waited, Maulvi Ziauddin, a Muslim religious teacher, slipped out of the house. He carried very little baggage and the car soon moved away towards the north, taking the roads that led out of the city of Calcutta. In such a way, disguised and with a different name, Subhas Bose left home; the maulvi, if he was asked on the way, was simply returning to his village up-country. The car was being driven by Subhas’ nephew, Sisir Bose. It would go as far as Gomoh in Bihar, for it was too risky for Subhas to take a train from Calcutta where every station and exit was being closely watched by the police. Thus, Bose travelled with his nephew by night, hiding by day, first to Gomoh, 210 miles from Calcutta. From here he boarded a train bound for Delhi and Peshawar. From Peshawar, he planned to get to Kabul.
Bose was leaving India, for he was determined to carry on the battle for freedom at all costs. It would be the last time he would leave India, nor would he ever return.

Subhas Chandra Bose is one of the heroes of India’s freedom struggle against the British. He had his own vision of how the struggle should be waged, and what an independent India must be like.
If Gandhi led the non-violent way, Bose’s fight for freedom saw him travelling across the globe, at great risk, to fight a battle against the British for India’s freedom. This is his story, and that of the alternative, armed struggle for Indian independence that he stood for—a story of the freedom struggle that ran in parallel to the Gandhi-led one, and that left behind many heroes.

Subhas Bose was born on 23 January 1897. It was a time of intense change, when all over the land, especially in Bengal, nationalism was in the air. Among the youth of Bengal, there was a growing anger against the injustice of British rule.
His father, Janakinath Bose, moved from Calcutta to Orissa in the 1880s, several years before Subhas was born. He settled down as a lawyer in Cuttack, a city by the Mahanadi river. Subhas was the sixth son and the ninth child of his parents.
His mother, Prabhavati, later told Subhas about the difficult journey they had undertaken while getting to Cuttack. She told him of the rolling, pitching and the discomfort on ships that was an inevitable part of these journeys.
‘Transportation was very difficult those days and the journey from Calcutta to Cuttack was fraught with danger. One had to go by cart and there was always the chance of encountering thieves and robbers on the road. If they travelled by boat, which was more common, the winds and the waves could sometimes be very strong. Sea-going vessels would carry passengers up to a midway point called Chandbali where people would disembark onto steamers that would sail up to Cuttack through a number of rivers and canals.’ (from An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography by Subhas Chandra Bose)
Subhas always thought his father had plenty of pluck to leave his village home and go far away in search of a career. By the time Subhas was born, his father had already made a name for himself and was a highly regarded lawyer in Cuttack.
Cuttack then was a small town with a population of around 20,000. It was an old city dating from the time of the kings of Kalinga. The famous temple of Jagannatha at Puri was not very far away, as were the ancient temples and cave monasteries at Konark, Udaigiri and Kandagiri. Cuttack was also the capital of the British administration in Orissa, and for the numerous ruling chiefs in that province.
Janakinath Bose took his law degree from Calcutta and during this period came into close contact with the Brahmo Samaj, an organization that worked for social and religious reform. He was acquainted with other prominent personalities of the period such as Keshab Chandra Sen, his brother Krishna Bihari Sen and Umesh Chandra Dutt, who was principal of City College. After he moved to Cuttack, Janakinath became the first non-official elected chairman of the Cuttack Municipality in 1901. In 1912, he became a member of the Bengal Legislative Council and received the title of ‘Rai Bahadur’. In 1917, after a disagreement with the district magistrate, Janakinath resigned from the post of government pleader and public prosecutor, and thirteen years later, also surrendered the title of ‘Rai Bahadur’ in protest against the repressive policies of the government.
He was a regular visitor at the annual sessions of the Indian National Congress, and was a consistent supporter of Swadeshi, which called for the boycott of foreign-made goods and advocated the use of Indian goods. After the commencement of the non-cooperation movement of 1921, he got involved in activities such as promoting khadi and assisting in national education efforts. He and his wife Prabhavati were a devoted couple. It is said that Ganganarayan Dutt, father of Prabhavati, put Janakinath through a tough oral examination to test his intellectual ability and his suitability as a hu