25th May- Birth Anniversary of Rash Behari Bose

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  • Rash Behari Bose was born on 25 May 1886 in a Bengali Kayastha family. He was born in his native village named Subaldaha situated in PurbaBardhaman district, West Bengal, India
  • Revolutionary leader Rash Behari Bose played a key role in India’s struggle for Independence.
  • He died on 21 January 1945 in Tokyo, Japan of tuberculosis.
  • He was interested in revolutionary activities from early on in his life, he left Bengal to shun the Alipore bomb case trials of (1908). At Dehradun, he worked as a head clerk at the Forest Research Institute.
  • There, through Amarendra Chatterjee of the Jugantar led by Jatin Mukherjee (BaghaJatin), he secretly got involved with the revolutionaries of Bengal and he came across eminent revolutionary members of the Arya Samaj in the United Provinces (currently Uttar Pradesh) and the Punjab
  • Rash Behari Bose played a key role in the Delhi Conspiracy Case (attempted assassination on the British Viceroy, Lord Hardinge), the Banaras Conspiracy Case and the Ghadr Conspiracy at Lahore.
  • On December 23, 1912 a bomb was thrown at Lord Hardinge during a ceremonial procession of transferring the capital from Calcutta to New Delhi. Bose was the mastermind behind the attack.
  • After the assassination attempt of Lord Hardinge and the failed Ghadar mutiny in 1915, Rash Behari was forced to go into hiding.
  • Bose played a pivotal role in establishing the Indian Independence League. After Bose went into hiding in Japan, he established the Indian Independence League in 1942.
  • Bose later handed over the command to Subhash Chandra Bose, Later it became to be known as the Indian National Army or the Azad Hind Fauj.
  • In Japan, Rash Behari Bose married Toshiko Soma of the Soma family, who gave him shelter during his hiding days.
  • Bose worked in their Nakamuraya bakery to create the (now much esteemed) Indian curry. The curry, is popularly known as Nakamuraya curry.
  • In the year of 1943, the Japanese government honoured him with the highest title given to a foreigner – The Second Order of Merit of the Rising Sun.
  • On 26 December 1967, the Posts and Telegraphs Department of India issued a special postage stamp in honour of Rash Behari Bose.