Netaji Bhawan or Netaji Bhavan (; ) is a heritage building in Kolkata,

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, maintained as a memorial and research center to the life of the Indian nationalist "Netaji"

Subhas Chandra Bose Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian independence movement, Indian nationalist whose defiance of British raj, British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with ...

. It is currently the headquarters of Netaji Research Bureau. Netaji Bhawan entrance

History

The house, built by Bose's father in 1909, is owned and managed by the Netaji Research Bureau and includes a museum, archives and library. The Bureau is run by

Sugata Bose Sugata Bose (born 7 September 1956) is an Indian historian and politician who has taught and worked in the United States since the mid-1980s. His fields of study are South Asian and Indian Ocean history. Bose taught at Tufts University until 2 ...

and his mother,

Krishna Bose Krishna Bose (26 December 1930 – 22 February 2020) was an Indian politician, educator, author and social worker. She was a Member of Parliament elected from the Jadavpur constituency in West Bengal as an All India Trinamool Congress candidat ...

. The building is on Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani in Kolkata. Bose escaped from

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at Netaji Bhawan in 1941 and fled to Berlin. After that, he traveled to Japan-occupied

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by submarine (German

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and ), organized

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, and fought against

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with the

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Relics of Bose's footprints are exhibited in the museum. Netaji Bhawan1

After the Second World War,

Mohandas K. Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British ru ...

and

Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a pr ...

visited Netaji Bhawan. Gandhi 1945

Recently, in 2007,

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Shinzō Abe Shinzo Abe (21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest-serving pri ...

visited the Netaji Bhawan. Netaji Bhawan3

References

External links

Netaji Research Bureau
Museums in Kolkata Monuments and memorials in Kolkata Memorials to Subhas Chandra Bose Museums established in 1957 Biographical museums in India Historical footprints {{india-museum-stub