The Indian National Army was a collaborationist armed unit of Indian collaborators that fought under the command of the Japanese Empire. It was founded by Mohan Singh on 1 September 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II.
Monument of INA Martyrs at Kolkata
Major Iwaichi Fujiwara greets Mohan Singh. Circa April 1942.
Bose meeting with Adolf Hitler in East Prussia, May 1942
Subhas Bose with Mohandas Gandhi at a Congress meeting, c 1938
Collaboration with Imperial Japan
Throughout World War II, the Empire of Japan created a number of puppet states that played a noticeable role in the war by collaborating with Imperial Japan. With promises of "Asia for the Asiatics" cooperating in a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japan also sponsored or collaborated with parts of nationalist movements in several Asian countries colonised by European empires or the United States. The Japanese recruited volunteers from several occupied regions and also from among Allied prisoners-of-war.
Korean volunteers of the Imperial Japanese Army, January 1943
The Burma Independence Army enters Rangoon during the Japanese invasion of Burma, early 1942
Troops of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Indian National Army on the Burma–India border, March 1943
Wang Jingwei with officers of the Collaborationist Chinese Army in the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War, late 1930s
