Jai Hind! In the Memory of the Provisional Government of Azad Hind

image: Several images are interspersed with the text. At the top left is an Indian flag, with horizontal bands of orange, white and green with a spinning wheel on the white band. Top right is a photograph of the grave of Subhas Chandra Bose, the leader of the Provisional Goverment. Centre top is a photograph of Bose in uniform, saluting. The main part of the design consists of five photographs; a full length photograph of Bose in the centre, with four smaller photographs grouped around it showing Bose in various situations such as inspecting troops. The whole design is bordered with a green and an orange stripe. text: Jai Hind! IN THE MEMORY OF THE Provisional Government OF AZAD HIND. Netaji and Azad Hind Cabinet Members. Netaji inspecting the Rani of Jhansi Regiment with Lt. Col. Lakshmi. Netaji Bose, C-in-C of the I.N.A. Netaji inspecting the Armoured Divisions of the I.N.A. Netaji at the Indian National Army parade in Singapore during Netaji week. NETAJI BOSE. The idol of India, one of the worthiest sons of Mother India and a hero of manifold fields of battle for the liberation of the motherland - The Greatest Indian since the time of Asoka the Great - The first Indian leader to organise a genuine National Government with an Army and Territory of its own. 'Jai Hind', the ideal greeting that has been given by him is now reverberating throughout the length and breadth of India. CALENDAR - 1946. Distributors: K.L. Supply Agency, 18 Ipoh Road, K.L. P.O. Box No. 475 Tel Address: - 'Freedom'. Printer: The Malayan Printers, K. L. Publisher: N. Ganesan, 18 Ipoh Road, Kuala Lumpur.

Front cover of a calendar, with holes pierced at the top for attaching the other pages and back cover.

The Provisional Government of Azad Hind [Free India] was a nationalist movement which allied itself with Germany and the other Axis powers against British Imperial Rule. Led by Subhash Chandra Bose, known to his followers as Netaji, it began as the Forward Bloc, a breakaway faction of the Indian National Congress. Bose was in favour of armed resistance to British rule, and was opposed to the Indian National Congress decision to compromise with the British during the war. During 1941 Bose was in Germany, helping to form the Waffen SS Azad Hind Legion with recruits from Indian troops captured in North Africa. In late 1943, with Japanese support, he was able to announce the formation of the Provisional Government in Rangoon. He took command of the Indian National Army, recruited from Indian prisoners of war in Japanese hands, and launched attacks against British troops in Burma. His initial success did not last and Burma was gradually retaken by British forces. Many members of the Provisional Government and the Indian National Army were arrested after the war and tried for treason. Mass protests in India, and Britain's realisation that Indian independence was inevitable ensured leniency. Bose himself escaped, but died in a plane crash in 1946.