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A Provisional Government of Free India (Azad Hind) was declared on the Japanese-occupied Andaman and Nicobar Islands and was nominally presided over by Bose.
Azad Hind was proclaimed in Singapore, not on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The islands were only transferred nominally to Azad Hind later, in late 1943.
Full reasoning
This sentence misstates where the Provisional Government of Free India was proclaimed.
- A National Heritage Board of Singapore collection note for an INA broadsheet says it depicts "the ceremony of the proclamation of the Azad Hind or Provisional Government of Free India in Singapore in 1943" by Subhas Chandra Bose.
- An Indian government PIB release says: "On October 21, 1943 Netaji had announced the formation of the Azad Hind Government which started functioning from Singapore".
- A separate PIB release explains the later Andaman connection: on 6 November 1943 Japan declared that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands would be transferred to the provisional Government, Azad Hind, and Bose hoisted the tricolour there on 30 December 1943.
So the government was declared in Singapore, while the Andaman and Nicobar Islands were later handed over nominally to Azad Hind. The article's wording incorrectly relocates the declaration itself to the islands.
3 sources
- Indian National Army (INA) broadsheet clipping - National Heritage Board, Singapore
This clipping depicts the ceremony of the proclamation of the Azad Hind or Provisional Government of Free India in Singapore in 1943 by Subhas Chandra Bose, the INA leader.
- Press Information Bureau: Commemoration of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s close ties with Andaman and Nicobar Islands
On October 21, 1943 Netaji had announced the formation of the Azad Hind Government which started functioning from Singapore with 11 ministers and eight representatives from the Indian National Army.
- Press Information Bureau: Time to revisit our history textbooks - Vice President
On 6th November 1943, the then Prime Minister of Japan had declared in the Tokyo Assembly of Greater East Asiatic Nations that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands would be transferred to the provisional Government, Azad Hind.
On 23 August 1945, the Japanese news agency Do Trzei announced the death of Bose and Shidea.
The names in this sentence are wrong: the agency was Domei, and the Japanese general's surname was Shidei.
Full reasoning
This sentence contains two incorrect names.
- The Japanese news agency that announced Bose's reported death was Domei (also written Dōmei), not "Do Trzei".
- The Japanese lieutenant general travelling with Bose was Tsunamasa Shidei, not "Shidea".
Evidence:
- A declassified Indian-government file refers to the announcement being made through the "DOMEI News Agency".
- A contemporary historical summary notes that "Japanese news agency Domei announced Bose's death on 23 August 1945".
- Another historical source discussing the same episode says the news was broadcast by "the Domei news agency of Tokyo" and names Bose's companion as General Shidei.
So the article's sentence misidentifies both the news agency and the Japanese officer.
3 sources
- Declassified Netaji papers (Government records copy hosted on Wikimedia Commons)
...the world in a cryptic one line that Subhash Chandra Bose ... was released not by the Japanese Government through their own news agency, but through a private news agency, the DOMEI News Agency.
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Contested Fatal Plane Crash: This Day In History - NDTV Profit
Japanese news agency Domei announced Bose's death on 23 August 1945 after his cremation ... accompanied by Lieutenant General Tsunamasa Shidei of the Imperial Japanese Kwantung Army.
- Declassified Files on Netaji - Was Netaji in Dalat on Aug 18?
On Aug 23 the news of his death in an aircrash was broadcasted to the world by the Domei news agency of Tokyo. ... Netaji Bose and General Shidei separated themselves from the other passengers of the plane.
with Lt Col. Arcot Doraiswamy Loganadan appointed its Governor General.
Loganadan was appointed chief commissioner/governor of the islands, not “Governor General.”
Full reasoning
The office named here is incorrect.
Official Indian-government sources describe A. D. Loganadan as the Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands under Azad Hind, not as Governor General.
- A Presidential speech archived on the President of India website states: "Netaji appointed Col. A.G. Loganadan, the Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands."
- An Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav government page likewise says Loganadan arrived in the Andamans "as Chief Commissioner of Azad Hind Government of Andaman and Nicobar Islands appointed by Netaji."
So this sentence gives Loganadan the wrong office title.
2 sources
- Speech by the President of India at the Civic Reception at Netaji Stadium, Port Blair
Netaji appointed Col. A.G. Loganadan, the Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Col. Loganadan along with four other INA officers arrived in Port Blair on 11 February 1944 and established the Azad Hind Government in the Andamans.
- Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav: Chander Bhan Singh
He arrived on 18 February 1944 in the Andamans as Chief Commissioner of Azad Hind Government of Andaman and Nicobar Islands appointed by Netaji.