Who took on the name ‘Orlando Mazzotta’ when he was in Germany in 1941?
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among Indians. His wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a legacy vexed by authoritarianism, anti-Semitism, and military failure.
He was born into wealth and privilege in a large Bengali family in Orissa during the British Raj. The early recipient of an Anglocentric education, he was sent after college to England to take the Indian Civil Service examination. He succeeded with distinction in the vital first team but demurred at taking the routine final exam, citing nationalism to be a larger calling.
He returned to India in 1921 and joined the nationalist movement led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. He followed Jawaharlal Nehru in a group within the Congress which was less keen on constitutional reform and more open to socialism. Bose became the president of Congress in 1938. After the re-elections in 1939, differences arose between him and the Congress leaders, including Gandhi, over the future federation of British India and princely states, but also because discomfort had grown among the Congress leadership over Bose’s negotiable attitude to non-violence, and his plans for greater power for himself.
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