‘Subhas’ sacrifice’ — Indian print from 1948 showing nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose offering his head to Mother India as she frees herself from the chains of the British dragon.
The heads of other nationalist and independence leaders are scattered below, while Bose is depicted above next to Delhi’s Red Fort and with the Indian flag.
Creators and publishers named as ‘Paul Picture Publishers’ and ‘The Laxi Press, Delhi’.
Creators and publishers named as ‘Paul Picture Publishers’ and ‘The Laxi Press, Delhi’.
Bose led the Axis-aligned Azad Hind and Indian National Army during the Second World War, fighting alongside the Japanese in Burma and elsewhere before fleeing East in 1945. He died in a crash on 18 August while on a Japanese plane.
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