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A women's regiment called the Rani Jhansi Regiment and was led by Dr. Laxmi Swaminathan. Recruitment and training camps were opened in large numbers to cope with the rush of volunteers offering themselves for the INA.

Ras Behari Bose was one of the key organizers of the plan to assassinate Lord  Hardinge. He played a crucial role in the Ghadar Revolution, a plan to attack British army from the inside. Ras Behari Bose was the founding leader of Azad Hind Sena that Subhash Chandra Bose capitalized on later.  Ras Behari Bose was involved in many revolutionary activities. He got inspiration from Quit India movement which was started against Britishers to leave from India. Then, he established  the Azad Hind Sena.

Indian National Army was an armed force formed by Mohan Singh in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II with an aim  to secure Indian independence from British rule. It was formed of Indian soldiers of the British regiment which were taken prisoners by Japan after it occupied Malaya. The first INA collapsed and was disbanded in December that year after differences between the INA leadership and the Japanese military over its role in Japan's war in Asia.

It suggested that if the cause was true, if the struggle was against injustice, then physical force was not necessary to fight the oppressor.

Winston Churchill had described Gandhiji "as a seditious Middle Temple Lawyer, now, posing as a half naked fakir".

The non-cooperation programme was adopted at the Nagpur session of the Congress in December 1920.

 The idea of satyagraha emphasised the power of truth and the need to search for truth. It suggested that if the cause was true, if the struggle was against injustice, then physical force was not necessary to fight the oppressor. People – including the oppressors – had to be persuaded to see the truth, instead of being forced to accept truth through the use of violence. By this struggle, truth was bound to ultimately triumph.