India declassifies files on death of Subhash Chandra Bose

NEW DELHI: India’s government on Saturday started declassifying secret files to settle questions over the death of Subhash Chandra Bose, a Congress party leader who formed a national army to fight British colonial rulers with the help of the Japanese in the 1940s.

 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi released digital copies of 100 secret files relating to Bose’s life in the presence of several members of his family. The National Archives of India plans to release digital copies of 25 declassified files on Bose every month.

India’s Civil Aviation Minister Mahesh Sharma said Modi already has informed Bose’s family that the government possessed “only circumstantial evidence and not any direct evidence about his death.”
Bose advocated an armed struggle for Indian independence against British colonialists. He led the radical wing of the

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