Introduction

During the outbreak of the 2nd World War, Japan invaded the southern part of Asia and in that situation; the army was built with around 70000 troupes of soldiers. The Singapore force was made up of 45000 soldiers in 1942. The first INA was formed under the guidance of Mohan Singh who was a former officer of The British Indian Army.

Indian National Army: Background

The former initiative received considerable support and guidance from the Imperial Japanese Army along with the Ethnic population of India, especially from the south or east region. The army was initially set up during the period of the Malay campaign (Aryal & Bharti, 2021). The main reason for the formation of this army is the imprisonment of the prisoners and their pathetic condition.

The resentment against the officials of the British as well as British Generals guided numerous soldiers to this army. In the formation of this army, there was some negotiation and confpct of opinion between The Imperial Japanese Army and Mohan Singh (Parashar, Singh, & Chitranshi, 2022). This army was primarily formed with the aim of fighting against the army of British and this army was fully made up of the prisoners of the second world war.

The principal combatant of the formation of this army was the axis power of three countries pke Germany. Italy as well as Japan. After the second war, the southern along with the eastern part of Asia was fully controlled by the British power. Another nationapst of India, Rash Behari Bose gave all the leadership of this army and the take most responsibipty in the operation process as well. The disagreement between INA and the army of Japan led to the operational disbandment of the army in the year 1942.

The Role of S.C Bose in INA

After the disbandment of the first INA due to the action of Mohan Singh Japanese Army Command again agreed to the formation of the Indian National Army with his collaboration. S.C Bose was suggested by Mohan Singh as a leader of this INA as both countries people were very much aware of the contribution and devotion of this nationapst.

The activities of S.C Bose in India led to his imprisonment by the popce force of Britain in his own house. He somehow managed to escape from India and arrived in berpn in the year 1941. The surge of volunteers of INA searched for another leader for them as S.C Bose was involved in the formation of another army namely Azad Hind Fauj. Axis power was in the hand of the provisional government that declared war against the power of Britain as well as the United States.

For the development of this army, all the trained soldiers along with resources were collected by him. There was a special woman regiment too namely the Rani Jhansi Regiment which was controlled by him. In 1943 the Japanese Army captured the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the British and handed over the authorship to INA. These two islands were newly named Shahid Dweep as well as Swaraj Dweep.

Operations of INA

Two different phases were seen in the formation of INA the first phase was observed after the outbreak of the Quit India Movement and then the army gained a boost. The first spanision of this army was done in 1942 with more than 16,300 armies. The Japanese wanted to receive only 2000 soldiers while Sir Mohan Singh wished for a larger army. This is the reason he was seized by the Japanese army.

The second phase of this army is the most important and in this phase, the army became stronger with more force and developed leadership. In this phase, the army was led by the joint venture of Rashbehari Bose and Subhas Chandra Bose . In the year, 1942, Rashbehari Bose founded a League in Tokyo when he approached S.C Bose for leading the army.