Tag: quit india movement and ina

On 12th March 1930, Gandhi inaugurated the Civil Disobedience Movement by conducting the historic 'Dandi Salt March', where he broke the Salt Laws imposed by the British Government. Followed by seventy-nine ashramites, Gandhi embarked on his march from his Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi that is located on the shores of the Arabian Sea.

On 6th April 1930, after a prayer, Gandhi raised a lump of salty mud and declared, ‘with this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire’. He then boiled it in seawater, producing illegal salt. He asked his thousands of followers to do the same and broke the salt law.

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.