Indian Nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose and his "Free India Legion" -"Simply Learning"
Chinese study showing the correlation between Nationalist Propaganda and Nationalism
-Daniel C. Mattingly and Elaine Yao, "Yale Universtity" and "Princeton University"
The Propaganda from both sides of the war left heavy immediate results on India. Infact, Subhas Chandra Bose's Free India Legion was a direct result of the Nazi propaganda station, "Azad Hind Radio", and Japanese Propaganda.
Compiled Transcripts of broadcasts made by Bose on the "Azad Hind Radio", calling for armed struggle against the British.
-"UK National Archives", 1943
Against our brutal foe, no amount of civil disobedience, sabotage or revolution can be of any avail. If therefore we want to expel the British from India, we shall have to fight the enemy with their own weapons. But it is not possible for our country-men at home to organise an armed revolution and to fight the British army of occupation with modern arms. This task must therefore devolve on Indians living abroad and particularly on Indians living in East Asia.
We Indians, have up till now lacked one thing and one thing alone. We lack an organisation to meet force with force. It is our task to supply this one want, and thereby to eliminate once for all the only drawback in our national struggle. I therefore desire all able bodied Indians living in East Asia to volunteer to fight with me for the liberation of our motherland. This is our supreme task and duty, before which no other type of service VXX counts for much.
All those countrymen of mine who are prepared to fight for the liberation of India will please get into touch with me at once, either directly or through their local organisation. I am confident that with the help of my countrymen in East Asia I shall be able to organise a gigantic force to sweep the British from India, in conjunction with those who have been fighting at home.
Bose put a strong emphasis of achieving liberation by force.
"Freedom is not given. It is taken."
- Subhas Chandra Bose
Japanese propaganda calling for armed retaliation against the British, reminding Indians of the Amritsar Massacre.
-"King's College in London", circa. 1942
Japanese propaganda called for retaliation towards Britain in response to imperialism.
- "Imperial War Museums"
British propaganda also turned out to be a strong weapon on the Allied side. With their patriotic propaganda, they created one of the largest volunteer armies in history, over 2.5 million Indians were in the ranks.
Indian soldiers in Britain's volunteer army ~"Imperial War Museums"