Subhas Chandra Bose
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Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and the Empire
Bose, c. 1930s
Janakinath Bose, Prabhabati Bose, and their family, ca. 1905. Sarat Chandra Bose (standing, centre) and Subhas Bose (aged 8, standing, extreme right).
A photograph (1851) of Presidency College, Calcutta which Subhas Bose entered in 1913, but from which he was expelled in 1916
Subhas Bose (standing, right) with friends in England, 1920
Indian independence movement
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The Indian independence movement was a series of political efforts from mid-1880s to 1947, that took place in the Indian subcontinent with the aim of ending British colonial rule.
Robert Clive with Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey. Mir Jafar's betrayal of the Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah of Bengal in Plassey made the battle one of the main factors of British supremacy in the sub-continent.
The Last Effort and Fall of Tippoo Sultaun by Henry Singleton, c. 1800. After the defeat of Tipu Sultan of Mysore, most of South India was now either under the company's direct rule, or under its indirect political control.
Bahadur Shah Zafar was declared the "Emperor of Hindustan" during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Birsa Munda, leader of Munda rebellion (Ulgulan)