THE REVOLUTIONARY WHO NEVER COMPROMISED TO ACCEPT THE LEADERSHIP OF THE MODERATE MAHATMA

THE REVOLUTIONARY WHO NEVER COMPROMISED TO ACCEPT THE LEADERSHIP OF THE MODERATE MAHATMA

Rash Behari Bose was a revolutionary nonpareil. There has hardly ever been another like him in the annals of India's freedom struggle.

An uncompromising patriot who fought for four decades to precipitate the collapse of European colonialism and free Asia and India in particular from the clutches of the British. His incorruptible zeal for revolutionary action against the occupying British forces never allowed him to make common cause with more moderate leaders like Mohandas Gandhi. Where Subhas Chandra Bose accepted Gandhi's leadership for two decades before chalking out the path of absolute armed revolution, the Chandannagar Bose plotted his armed assault from start to finish and, in sequential flow from the Alipore Bomb Case through the Hardinge Bombing and the failed Ghadar Revolution right to the INA's War of Liberation, undermined the Empire till it collapsed under its own weight.

Gandhi held sway over most of the leaders of the day during the phase of the freedom movement dubbed the 'Gandhi Era' but not over Rash Behari Bose who remained independent of such comprised control of the 'Sage of Sabarmati'. 'Bose of Nakamuraya' remained the last link of the Bengal revolutionaries from the early revolutionary phase of the freedom movement who would have nothing to do with Gandhian nonviolence and in alliance with Japanese friends and his fellow Indian assistant in A.M.Nair plotted the downfall of the British Empire for three decades from exile in Japan.

And he succeeded in the end. Indeed, true to his own words, "One more fight, the last and the best," this redoubtable revolutionary dealt the death-blow to the British Empire as Singapore, Rangoon, Andaman, Imphal, Kohima, Bombay, Chennai, Jabbalpore, Karachi and, finally, New Delhi shook to overthrow the British from India. Netaji was the new hero but behind him stood the old adversary of the British, engineering things to their eventual fruition.

When the master chef of Nakamuraya Bakery died in 1945, months before the end of the Second World War, he had laid down his final recipe of the special Indian curry which if independent India heeds, she will never see such dastardly dependence again under the heels of a perfidious, pernicious power as the British.

Written by Sugata Bose

Comal Mahadevan Amrtheswaran Excellent write-up.

Apurba Das Thanks a lot Mr. Bose. The first and most authentic account of Indian's struggle for freedom. The Krishna of the Mahabharata, the Chanakya of the Mauryas, the Rana of Mebar Chhatrapati of the Marathas all combined in one character to singlehandedly take on the mighty Imperialists of the world.

Prithwish Gupta A very comprehensive write up in shortest possible words has depicted the true contribution of Great Rashbehari and Netaji ,that ultimately forced the occupation force of BRITISHERS to leave this Nation .

Krishna Pramanik Excellent Mr. Bose!

Debkanti Moitra It was him in which the future of armed struggle was there in seed form which resulted in the giant tree called INA.

Ghosh Gorachand The British Govt requested to the Japanese Govt for deporting Rashbehari Bose to the British India. But the above Japanese family and the Jap Govt denied to act on the request of the British Govt as I have heard from the PS of Netaji.