A Colony Set Free by a War – India and the Second World War

... stated bluntly that it was a gigantic mistake, and the Indian public would now see Germany as an aggressor [3] . At the beginning of 1943 Bose moved to Japan, where he was received as an “Indian samurai” [4] and was made leader of the Indian National Army, which Japan had started to form at the beginning of 1942 from Indian prisoners of war and ethnic Indians living in South-East Asia. By this time, however, Japan had lost the strategic initiative and was focusing its attention on other areas, and the only military ...