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title: "Rarely known facts about Subhash Chandra Bosh"  
description: "Bose is known for his famous slogan \"Jai Hind,\" which means \"Victory to India\" and is still used as a patriotic salutation in India."  
author: "Babita Soni"  
published: 2023-04-06  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2194/rarely-known-facts-about-subhash-chandra-bosh  
category: "history"  
tags: ["Subhash Chandra Bosh"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Rarely known facts about Subhash Chandra Bosh

![Rarely known facts about Subhash Chandra Bosh](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eb4d676e-2943-4ed5-8acf-4d3e11765144/images/825f7105-0841-44d3-b87d-f2027c356a10.jpeg) ![Rarely known facts about Subhash Chandra Bosh](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eb4d676e-2943-4ed5-8acf-4d3e11765144/images/07227c83-820c-4004-893d-380a90263da1.jpeg) Subhash Chandra Bose was born to a wealthy lawyer family on January 23, 1897, in Cuttack, Orissa, India. ![Rarely known facts about Subhash Chandra Bosh](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eb4d676e-2943-4ed5-8acf-4d3e11765144/images/5b6b9820-54de-4bf5-a17c-704b82449de9.jpeg) He was a brilliant student and graduated with a BA in Philosophy from the University of Calcutta in 1919. ![Rarely known facts about Subhash Chandra Bosh](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eb4d676e-2943-4ed5-8acf-4d3e11765144/images/12d5b07e-1e2d-43c7-9a94-b6f2b93b785e.jpeg) In 1921, Bose joined the Indian National Congress and became a prominent leader in the party, but later he split with the Congress. ![Rarely known facts about Subhash Chandra Bosh](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eb4d676e-2943-4ed5-8acf-4d3e11765144/images/2b83f552-e28b-4e77-a784-c733af0123b6.jpeg) Bose was elected president of the Indian National Congress in 1938 but later resigned due to differences with Mahatma Gandhi. ![Rarely known facts about Subhash Chandra Bosh](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eb4d676e-2943-4ed5-8acf-4d3e11765144/images/c15ffd43-0f74-40b5-b7bf-bb0b467bdb4c.jpeg) He formed the Forward Bloc in 1939 as a new political platform to fight for India's independence from British rule. ![Rarely known facts about Subhash Chandra Bosh](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eb4d676e-2943-4ed5-8acf-4d3e11765144/images/d9d8bf6f-e669-410f-8e76-feb6b1ff0f25.jpeg) In 1940, Bose escaped from British custody and fled to Germany to seek help from Adolf Hitler to form Indian army to fight against British colonialism ![Rarely known facts about Subhash Chandra Bosh](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eb4d676e-2943-4ed5-8acf-4d3e11765144/images/d26df72c-c205-413f-b5fc-653a2bdd5b3a.jpeg) Bose formed the Indian National Army (INA) in 1942, composed of Indian prisoners of war and soldiers who defected from the British Indian Army. ![Rarely known facts about Subhash Chandra Bosh](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eb4d676e-2943-4ed5-8acf-4d3e11765144/images/5e98a05f-ca38-43ca-b67e-0b4aa4dfa05c.jpeg) In 1943, Bose declared the formation of the Provisional Government of Free India in Singapore, with himself as the Head of State. ![Rarely known facts about Subhash Chandra Bosh](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/eb4d676e-2943-4ed5-8acf-4d3e11765144/images/358ca3e8-6ccd-4144-aed8-32b7d5a175fa.jpeg) Bose died on August 18, 1945, in a plane crash in Taiwan under mysterious circumstances, which remains a topic of debate and speculation today.

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