Azad Hind Radio

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Azad Hind Radio (transl. Free India Radio) was a radio service that was started under the leadership of

Arzi Hukumate Azad Hind in Germany.[1][2][3]

The station broadcast weekly news bulletins in English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, Pashto and Urdu, the languages spoken by most potential volunteers for the Indian Legion in Germany and the Indian National Army in southeast Asia.

Azad Hind Radio aimed to counter the broadcasts of Allied radio stations. On Azad Hind Radio, Bose referred to the

British Broadcasting Corporation as the Bluff and Bluster Corporation and All India Radio
as the Anti-Indian Radio.

Operations

Rangoon in Myanmar and later to Singapore following the war in South-east Asia.[4] Speaking of Bose's plans for the station in the initial days, his second-in-command A. C. N. Nambiar would later depose that Bose had initially wanted to launch two additional radio stations, one called 'Congress Radio' that would be aimed at the supporters of Gandhi and another called 'Azad Muslim Radio' to counter the actions of the Muslim League. He had wanted to initially keep the stations secret to give the impression that the content was being broadcast from some location in India.[7]

In addition to news programming, the station broadcast messages from Bose and his

Rangoon where the station was then based.[8][9] The programming on the station was largely considered Nazi German propaganda against the British actions in the region.[10][11] The BBC launched its own Eastern Service station in the early 1940s to counter propaganda by stations like the Azad Hind Radio.[10]

The station continued operations until June 1945 even after Bose's Indian National Army was defeated by the British in 1944.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Netaji's Addresses on Azad Hind Radio". oocities.org. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  2. ^ Afridi, Sahroz. "Freedom struggle on air". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  3. ^ "Netaji to come alive on Azad Hind Radio". newindianexpress.com. Archived from the original on 6 March 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e Jha, Fiza (23 January 2020). "Azad Hind Radio, from where Subhas Chandra Bose spoke his mann ki baat". ThePrint. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  5. ISBN 978-1-3981-0447-1
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  6. JSTOR 44230078
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  7. ISBN 978-1-3981-0447-1
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  8. ^ a b "Special galleries on Netaji - Azad Hind radio paraphernalia on display". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  9. ^ "The Asia Society - Princes and Painters Exhibit". The Asia Society - Princes and Painters Exhibit. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
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  11. JSTOR 3518181
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External links

Netaji's speeches on Azad Hind Radio:

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