- Lived:
- 23 January 1897, Cuttack, Orissa (Odisha) → Calcutta (Kolkata), Cambridge, eleven British-Indian jails, Vienna, Berlin, Singapore, Rangoon (Yangon); officially died 18 August 1945, Taipei
- Field:
- freedom movement — the armed road; twice Congress president; head of state of the Provisional Government of Azad Hind and Supreme Commander of its army, the Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army)
- The Big Idea:
- If the British could not be argued or fasted out of India, they would have to be marched out — and the army doing the marching must look like the India it fought for: every faith in one mess line, women bearing arms, Hindustani the language of command.
- In their words:
- "Give me blood, and I will give you freedom!" (to Indians in Burma, 4 July 1944)
- If you remember one thing:
- He lost every battle he fought and may have won the endgame anyway — the 1945 trial of his defeated officers did what his army never could: it made the Indian soldier's loyalty, the one pillar the Raj could not stand without, visibly start to crack.