Subhas Chandra Bose

Indian nationalist leader (1897-1945)

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Lived 1897–1945, aged 48

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1897–1945
Aged 48

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Updated 2026-05-29

Led India's anti-colonial resistance in the 1940s and became a household name after aligning with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan—a move that shadowed his nationalist legacy. Still revered as Netaji across India despite the controversial wartime partnerships.

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Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan left a legacy vexed by authoritarianism, antisemitism, and military failure. The honorific Netaji was first applied to Bose in Germany in early 1942—by the Indian soldiers of the Indische Legion and by the German and Indian officials in the Special Bureau for India in Berlin. It is now used throughout India.

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