Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians,but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a legacy vexed by authoritarianism,anti-Semitism,and military failure. The honorific Netaji was first applied to Bose in Germany in early 1942—by the Indian soldiers of the Indische Legion and by the German and Indian officials in the Special Bureau for India in Berlin. It is now used throughout India.
Emilie Schenkl was an Austrian stenographer,secretary and trunk exchange operator. She was the wife or the companion of Subhas Chandra Bose,an Indian nationalist leader.
Ayesha Jalal is a Pakistani-American historian who serves as the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University,and was the recipient of the 1998 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
The Bengal Renaissance,also known as the Bengali Renaissance,was a cultural,social,intellectual,and artistic movement that took place in the Bengal region of the British Raj,from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. Historians have traced the beginnings of the movement to the victory of the British East India Company at the 1757 Battle of Plassey,as well as the works of reformer Raja Rammohan Roy,considered the "Father of the Bengal Renaissance," born in 1772. Nitish Sengupta stated that the movement "can be said to have …ended with Rabindranath Tagore," Asia's first Nobel laureate.
Sugata Bose is an Indian historian and politician who has taught and worked in the United States since the mid-1980s. His fields of study are South Asian and Indian Ocean history. Bose taught at Tufts University until 2001,when he accepted the Gardiner Chair of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. Bose is also the director of the Netaji Research Bureau in Kolkata,India,a research center and archives devoted to the life and work of Bose's great uncle,the Indian nationalist,Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose is the author most recently of His Majesty's Opponent:Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire (2011) and A Hundred Horizons:The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (2006).
The Bangladesh genocide began on 25 March 1971 with the launch of Operation Searchlight,as the government of Pakistan,dominated by West Pakistan,began a military crackdown on East Pakistan to suppress Bengali calls for self-determination. During the nine-month-long Bangladesh Liberation War,members of the Pakistan Armed Forces and supporting pro-Pakistani Islamist militias from Jamaat-e-Islami killed between 300,000 and 3,000,000 people and raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women,in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape. The Government of Bangladesh states 3,000,000 people were killed during the genocide,making it the largest genocide since the Holocaust during World War II.
Bose,Basu,Bosu,Boshu or Bosh is a Bengali Kayastha surname found amongst upper caste Kulin Kayasthas of Indian state of West Bengal and Bangladesh. The traditional Bengali version is Bosu,which is sometimes written Basu,which is alternately spelled as Bose. It from Sanskrit वासु.
Sarat Chandra Bose was a Bengali barrister and independence activist.
Anita Bose Pfaff is an Austrian-born economist,who has previously been a professor at the University of Augsburg as well as a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She is the daughter of Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945) and his wife Emilie Schenkl.
Barun De was an Indian historian. He served as the first professor of social and economic history of the Indian Institute of Management,Calcutta,founder-director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,Calcutta and the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies,Kolkata and as the honorary state editor for the West Bengal District Gazetteers. He was chairman of the West Bengal Heritage Commission.
Anuj Dhar is an Indian author and former journalist. He has published several books around the locus of death of Subhas Chandra Bose that propounds theories about his living for several years after the purported plane crash,thus contradicting the current consensus. Dhar is also the founder-trustee of a not for profit organisation,Mission Netaji,which campaigns for the declassification of documents concerning Bose.
Major General Mohammed Zaman Kiani was an officer of the British Indian Army who later joined the Indian National Army (INA),led by Subhas Chandra Bose,and commanded its 1st Division.
Chuknagar massacre was a massacre of Bengali Hindus committed by the Pakistan Army and local Razakars during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The massacre took place on 20 May 1971 at Dumuria in Khulna and it was one of the largest massacres during the war. According to local estimates,between 10,000 to 12,000 people were killed,though the exact number of persons killed in the massacre is not known. Academic Sarmila Bose,in her controversial book. dismisses claims that 10,000 were killed as "unhelpful",and argues that the reported number of attackers could have shot no more than several hundred people before running out of ammunition. The majority of people killed in the massacre were men,although an unknown number of women and children were murdered as well.
Naeem Mohaiemen uses film,photography,installation,and essays to research South Asia's postcolonial markers. His projects on the 1970s revolutionary left explores the role of misrecognition within global solidarity. He is a member of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Independent Film Council.
Dead Reckoning:Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War is a controversial book on the Bangladesh Liberation War written by Sarmila Bose. The book has been accused of flawed and biased methodology,historical negationism and downplaying genocide.
"Ekbar biday de Ma ghure ashi" is a Bengali patriotic song written by Pitambar Das. This song was composed in honour of Khudiram Bose. This song is still very popular in West Bengal (India),Khudiram Bose is highly revered as a hero in India particularly West Bengal.
Leonard Abraham Gordon is a historian of South Asia,especially of Bengal,whose 1990 book Brothers Against the Raj:A Biography of Indian Nationalist Leaders Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose is considered the definitive biography of Subhas Chandra Bose.
Krishna Bose was an Indian politician,educator,author and social worker. She was a Member of Parliament elected from the Jadavpur constituency in West Bengal as an All India Trinamool Congress candidate.
Prabhabati Bose was an Indian social activist and politician. She was born in 1869 into a respected Kayastha Bharadwaja clan Dutta family of Hatkhola,in Calcutta North. Her parents were Ganganarayan Dutta and Kamala Kamini Dutta of Kashinath Dutta Road,Baranagore,India. She was her parents' eldest daughter.
Purabi Roy is an Indian multi-disciplinary researcher,author,and an eminent scholar in Russian language and history. She has been visiting Professor at Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University in Russian Federation from 2000 to 2006. She is acknowledged as one of the foremost and veteran researchers on Subhas Chandra Bose and a former member of Indian Council of Historical Research.
