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Rash Behari Bose
रासबिहारी बोस
The revolutionary who escaped to Japan and built the Indian National Army
Years
1886 – 1945
Known as
Founder of the Indian National Army in Asia
Birthplace
Subaldaha, Bengal
Field
Freedom Fighters
“The sun of freedom will rise of Bhārat in the east.”
— Rash Behari Bose
The Story
A government clerk in Dehradun, Rash Behari was secretly a revolutionary of extraordinary audacity. In 1912, as the Viceroy Lord Hardinge rode into Delhi on an elephant, Bose hurled a bomb at him — the famous Delhi conspiracy case. He escaped in the confusion and, though hunted across Bhārat, continued to organise the Ghadarite rising planned for 1915.
When the 1915 rising was betrayed, the British closed their net around him. With the help of friends, he fled Bhārat in May 1915, travelling disguised to Japan — where he lived for the rest of his life, married a Japanese woman, and took Japanese citizenship while working ceaselessly for Bhārat's freedom.
In 1942, with the soldiers captured by Japan in Malaya and Singapore, Bose convened the Indian Independence League in Bangkok and founded the first Indian National Army — the INA's first head, before he handed its leadership to the young Subhas Chandra Bose, who made it a fighting army. Rash Behari died in Japan in 1945, weeks before the freedom he had prepared for came.
Core Ideas
The Delhi Bomb
He attacked the Viceroy in 1912.
The Great Escape
He fled the British net to Japan in 1915.
The INA's Founder
He created the first Indian National Army.
The Indian Independence League
He united people of Bhārat across Asia.
The Bridge to Netaji
He handed the INA to Subhas Chandra Bose.
Why it matters today
Rash Behari Bose is honoured as the founder of the INA, with memorials in Japan and Bhārat. His life — bomb in Delhi, escape across the seas, and an army born in exile — is one of the most extraordinary stories of the freedom struggle.