Virtual Meets Part 3

Nonviolence/noncooperation was instituted as a way to fight against British colonialism when individuals were forcibly disarmed after India's defeat in _________.

1857

In April 1943, Subhas Chandra Bose and __________ took part in the only submarine-to-submarine transfer of passengers in the annals of World War II in waters where the enemy was superior in air and naval power.

Abid Hasan

Concerning the post-World War Two trial held at Red Fort in Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote that it "dramatized and gave visible form to the old contest: England versus India." Which individual below was not an INA leader considered one of the "Red Fort Three"?

Abul Kalam Azad

● Rhodes scholar at Oxford and skilled international lawyer ● Headed the Indian division of the German Foreign Office ● He used his position as a cover for his anti-Nazi activities ● He was executed for his part in the failed 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler Which individual is described above?

Adam von Trott zu Solz

Though a "record of their conversation reveals him to be quite rational, if rather long-winded, in his comments and analyses," Girija Mookerjee wrote that the meeting was "a disappointment for Subhas Bose. His aides at the Free India Center were curious to hear his opinion about __________, whom Bose dubbed as "baddha pagal" (raving mad in Bengali.)

Adolf Hitler

Who was Muhammad Ziauddin?

An alias disguise for Subhas Chandra Bose.

We Indians, regardless of religious faiths, cherish the memory of ____________, not because he was the man who gave the clarion call to his countrymen to fight the enemy from without, but because he was the man under whose flag fought Indians from all provinces, Indians professing different religious faiths, the man under whose sacred flag freedom-loving Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs fought side by side in the war that has been dubbed by English historians as the sepoy mutiny, but which we Indians call the first war of independence. To signal the INA's determination to march to the Red Fort of Delhi, Bose, who is quoted above, paid his respect at the tomb of ____________, who is also known as the last Mughal Emperor.

Bahadur Shah

Subhas Chandra Bose's disappointment with Germany and Adolf Hitler stemmed from the Fuhrer's desire to join the ___________ in their colonization efforts because Hitler viewed them as a superior race.

British

As a political guru for Subhas Chandra Bose and founder of the Swaraj Party, __________ was also revered as "The Deshbandhu" or "Friend of the Country."

Chittaranjan Das

. Subhas Chandra Bose secretly married ____________, choosing to keep their relationship and marriage a closely guarded secret. His wife later explained that "Country came first" for Subhas, and any public announcement at that stage would have caused unnecessary "upheaval."

Emilie Schenkl

In 1939, Bose proposed the ____________ for India's National Congress "as a forum for the more radical elements in the party."

Forward Bloc

Described as Subhas Bose's political father figure, Chitta Ranjan Das was granted the honorific title of "Deshbandhu" which means _____________.

Friend of the Country

With the end of World War Two, the Japanese attempted to fly Subhas Bose by himself from Saigon to Tokyo, but other Indian leaders complained. A second seat on the Japanese bomber was assigned, and Subhas chose ___________ due to his higher military rank and because he had served as his deputy chief of staff in Singapore.

Habibur Rahman

A powerful Philips radio transmitter was installed in ____________ to transmit the Azad Hind radio broadcast of Subhas Chandra Bose to an estimated 120,000 radio sets in India. The Azad Hind show became a favorite activity for people within India.

Huizen, The Netherlands

What is the significance of the date August 15, 1947

India & Pakistan achieved independence from Britain

Bose and others compared India's anticolonial movement to that of ___________ because of the similarities in the fight between religious majorities and minorities and the agrarian background.

Ireland

Chosen by Netaji to be the national anthem of India, "___________" was later confirmed in 1947 by the Indian National Congress.

Jana Gana Mana Adhinayak Jaya He

With the help of Bhagat Ram, who used the assumed name of Bhagat Khan, Subhas Bose, disguised as Ziauddin, escaped India and, in January 1941, arrived in _______________, which is described as a "hub of international espionage in the Second World War."

Kabul, Afghanistan

Described as "one of the three upper castes among the Hindus of Bengal" and as a literate, educated people who do well in government service, Subhas Bose family ancestry can be traced to the ____________ caste.

Kayastha

The Quit India Movement was launched in August 1942 by ___________, who called for the immediate Independence of India from the British Empire.

Mahatma Gandhi

From 1924 to 1927, Subhas Chandra Bose was jailed in a prison located in ____________.

Mandalay, Burma

For the initial 1944 invasion of India from Southeast Asia, the first division of the Indian National Army (INA), some ten thousand soldiers, was put under the command of _____________.

Mohammad Zaman Kiani

Subhas Bose met the __________ of Japan, Hideki Tojo, for the first time on June 10, 1943, when Tojo confirmed "unconditional support" for the independence of India from Britain

Prime Minister

In March 1919, the passage of the _____________ "transformed wartime law into peacetime legislation," giving the British the ability to hold Indians in detention without trial. Protests against this law led to the April Amritsar Massacre in Punjab.

Rowlatt Act

On January 7, 1944, the advance headquarters of the Azad Hind Provisional Government was moved from ____________ to Rangoon, Myanmar (Burma), in order to launch an invasion of Imphal and other locations in Eastern India.

Singapore

The first division of the Indian National Army was put under the command of Mohammad Zaman Kiani and divided into three regiments named after all the following individuals except:

Subhas Chandra Bose

On November 18, 1943, Bose left Japan for occupied Nanjing, China, at the invitation of Wang Jing Wei, the pro-Japanese Chinese leader. There, he paid homage to _________, the father of the 1911 Chinese Republic, at his memorial in Nanjing, describing him as "a sincere believer in the liberation of Asia and in Asian unity."

Sun Yat-sen

Subhas Bose states he was "barely fifteen" when he was introduced to writings of _____________, whose message of service to suffering humanity and who died at the early age of thirty-nine in 1902 had inspired an entire generation.

Swami Vivekanada

. It was reported that on August 18, 1945, Chandra Bose died in a plane crash shortly after taking off from an airport in __________

Taipei

This is perhaps the most interesting book which has yet been written by an Indian politician on Indian politics. His history of the last fourteen teen years, though written avowedly from the standpoint of the Left-Wing, Wing, is as nearly fair to all parties and everyone as can be reasonably ably expected of an active politician. He is interested in trade union movements, the peasants' revolt, and the growth of Socialism. Altogether the book leaves us with a wish to see Mr. Bose take a lead in Indian politics. In the comments above, British officer J. T. Gwynne references Bose's book ____________.

The Indian Struggle

In a letter to the governor of Bengal, Subhas Bose discussed a topic that he, Terence MacSwiney of Ireland, Jatin Das, and Mahatma Gandhi all had in common. What was this topic?

They all fasted while in prison due to their political convictions

In November 1944, Subhas Chandra Bose, also called "Netaji," shared his views on the fundamental problems of India in an address to the faculty and students at ________ University. In what has come to be called his "________ thesis," he argued "that the creative faculty of its people and their determination to resist imperialist domination gave ample proof of India's vitality as a nation."

Tokyo

Subhas Chandra Bose introduced the inspiring national greeting "Jai Hind," which meant _________.

Victory to India

Beginning in March 1943, more than three million people died in Bose's home state of Bengal due to -

a man-made famine caused by war.

Gandhi adopted the spinning wheel, or ___________, as one of the key symbols of Indian nationalism, and now adorns the center of the flag of India.

charkha

India's independence happened precisely two years to the day after the ____________.

defeat of Japan in WWII

. The best definition for the term "swaraj" is _____________.

self-rule

"You had an opportunity of helping us, but you did not do so. Now Japan is offering us help and we have reason to trust her sincerity. That is why we have plunged into the struggle alongside of her. It is not Japan that we are helping by waging war on you and on our mortal enemy - England. We are helping ourselves - we are helping Asia." Subhas Bose made a series of broadcasts from Tokyo like the one above towards ___________, telling them that Asia was "surging with revolutionary fervor."

the US

Following his escape from India to Moscow, Subhas Bose had his first alcoholic drink, a glass of _________. "It burnt me," he confessed to his wife Emilie

vodka

The Shah Nawaz Khan Committee listed the date of death of Subhas Chandra Bose as August 18, 1945, the place of death as Taihoku Airfield in Taipei, and the cause of death was described as "death by _________."

war