INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indian Independence League was a political organisation started by Rash Behari Bose which operated from the 1920s to the 1940s. It was set up to organize those living outside of India into seeking the removal of British colonial rule over India.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rash Behari Bose was staying in Japan since 1915. He had organised the Indian patriots living in countries of South East Asia and established the organisation named Indian Independence League.

Detailed explanation-3: -Established primarily to foster Indian nationalism and to obtain Japanese support for the Indian Independence Movement, the League came to interact and command the first Indian National Army under Mohan Singh before it was dissolved. Rash Behari Bose handed over the INA to Subhas Chandra Bose.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bose convened a conference in Tokyo on 28–30 March 1942, which decided to establish the Indian Independence League. At the conference, he moved a motion to raise an army for Indian independence. He convened the second conference of the League at Bangkok on 22 June 1942.

Detailed explanation-5: -Rash Behari Bose, an old revolutionary leader along with Captain Mohan Singh, formed the ‘Indian Independence League’. It focussed on mobilising all the members of the Indian community to secure independence. Rash Behari Bose took the initiative to organise the Tokyo Conference in 1942.