In October 1943, Subhash Chandra Bose set up a provisional government of free India which was recognized by how many countries including Japan ?
9
The Provisional Government of Free India was recognised by nine countries — option 4.
What was set up. On 21 October 1943, at Singapore, Subhas Chandra Bose proclaimed the Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, the Provisional Government of Free India, with himself as Head of State, Prime Minister and Minister for War. It had a cabinet, a currency, a bank, a court and its own army in the Indian National Army, and it declared war on Britain and the United States on 23 October 1943.
| Detail | Fact |
|---|---|
| Proclaimed | 21 October 1943, at Singapore |
| Head | Subhas Chandra Bose, as Head of State and Prime Minister |
| Recognised by | Nine governments — Japan, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Manchukuo and Nationalist China under Wang Jingwei |
| Territory | The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, handed over by Japan and renamed Shaheed and Swaraj |
What it did. The government moved its headquarters to Rangoon in January 1944, from which the INA advanced with the Japanese into Manipur, crossing the frontier and raising the flag at Moirang. The campaign towards Imphal and Kohima failed in mid-1944, with the monsoon, disease and the collapse of supply lines doing more damage than the fighting.
Why it mattered. Recognition by nine governments, even though most were Axis powers or their client states, gave the enterprise a standing in international law that no earlier body in the national movement had claimed. And the INA trials at the Red Fort in 1945-46 — of Prem Sahgal, Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon and Shah Nawaz Khan, a Hindu, a Sikh and a Muslim tried together — produced a wave of public feeling and unrest in the armed forces that weighed heavily on British calculations about how long India could be held.
Hence, the answer is 9.
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