regiment, returned to civilian life and were not recognized.

After Singapore was retaken, Mountbatten ordered the INA's war memorial to its fallen troopers to be blown up. At the time of the autumn of Japan, the remaining captured troops were transported to India via Rangoon. Large numbers of native Malay and Burmese volunteers, including the recruits to the Rani of Jhansi regiment, returned to civilian life and were not recognized.

End Of The Ina

Hugh Toye— a British Intelligence officer and writer of a 1959 historical past of the military known as The Springing Tiger— and American historian Peter Fay have reached comparable estimates of troop strength. The first INA is taken into account to have comprised about 40,000 troops, of whom about four,000 withdrew when it was disbanded in December 1942. Further recruitment of former Indian Army personnel added about 8,000–10,000.

Indian National Army

Before Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose began his armed campaign, an Indian expatriate living in Japan and likewise bearing the surname Bose established the Indian Independence League. By the time the Azad Hind Fauj was formally established, it had a strong power of 85,000 troops. While Mahatma Gandhi's name in the textbooks has been misspelt as 'Gandi', the Azad Hind Fauj founded by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose has been known as 'Azad Hind Sena' and 'Azad Hind Army'.