Who founded the Indian National Army? A new work has an answer that isn’t in most school books

Who was the founder of the Indian National Army?

Most Indians would immediately answer that it was Subhas Chandra Bose – known by the honorific Netaji – who assembled the army to fight against the British for freedom during World War II.

As most textbooks tell it, Bose’s army was mainly staffed by Indian soldiers from the British Indian Army, who abandoned the colonial force after the Japanese entered the war in December, 1941. They hoped that the East Asian power would help them liberate the subcontinent.

But in T he Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II: The Untold Story of INA Soldiers, Subhas Chandra Bose, Singapore 1942, Burma Campaign, and Indian POWs Who Shaped Independence, Gautam Hazarika upturns conventional assumptions about the force.

“Contrary to popular belief, the