Modern Indian History

During the British rule India became geographically united under one ruler. But people were not emotionally integrated because policy of British was to divide and rule. They aggravated the differences between different rulers of India and people.

Feeling of togetherness or oneness towards one’s own country is called national integration. Example of extremism that affects national integration is Naxalite movement and Maoist movement are the two extremist groups which tend to choose violent acts to meet their goals and purposes.

Subhash Chandra Bose is famously credited with the slogan 'Jai Hind'.

Subhash Chandra Bose was an Indian revolutionary who believed in violent resistance to British rule. He joined the Indian National Army in 1943. One of his most famous declarations was 'Tum mujhe khoon do mai tumhe azadi doonga' (Give me blood, I shall give you freedom). INA played a significant role in the Indian National Movement.

S.C. Bose coined the slogan 'Jai Hind'. he became President of INA in 1943. He wanted INA to be an elite fighting force, trained to the highest standards of the German army fighting for the sole cause of Indian Independence. But the Indian soldiers tended to restrict themselves to clusters of their own ethnicity and religion as they were historically organised in regiments as per religion. To tackle this issue he found the slogan “Jai Hind!”

Lakshmi Sahgal  was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement, an officer of the Indian National Army, and the Minister of Women's Affairs in the Azad Hind government. Sahgal is commonly referred to in India as "Captain Lakshmi", a reference to her rank when taken prisoner in Burma during the Second World War.

Subhash Chandra Bose gave the 'Delhi Chalo' (March to Delhi) call to the Indian National Army.

It is a quote by Subhash Chandra Bose. According to him, it was blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. So he urged people to join him in his mission of independence.

Subhas Chandra Bose raised an expatriate army in Southeast Asia in 1943 known as the Indian National Army (INA).

Subhash Chandra Bose was the first to address Mahatma Gandhi as 'Father of the Nation' in a radio broadcast from Singapore in 1944.

• Lakshmi Sehgal was born in 1914. She was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement. She was the minister of women's affair in Azad Hind Fauj.
  
• She left India in 1940 and went to Singapore. In Singapore, she met Subhash Chandra Bose and showed her interest to be a part of Azad Hind Fauj. After her meeting with Subhash Chandra Bose, she emerged with a mandate to set up a women's regiment named as Jhansi Regiment.
  

It was made very clear at meeting  of leaders of the Indian Community and of Indian Army officers the the INA would go into action only on the invitation of the Indian National Congress and the people of india.

The idea of the Indian National Army was conceived in Malaya by Mohan Singh, an Indian officer in the British Indian Army. He decided not to join the retreating British army and instead went to Japanese for help.

Subhas Chandra Bose set up the Provisional Government of free Indian on October 21, 1943 in Singapore. The Provisional Government then declared war on Britain and United States. The Provisional Government was recognised by the axis power and their satellites including Japan, Germany, Italy Burma and Thailand.

The Provisional Government acquired its first stretch of territory in India when Japan handed over Andaman and Nicobar Islands to it on November 6, 1943. Subhas Chandra Bose renamed them Shaheed and Swaraj Islands respectively.