The Nehru Brigade or 4th Guerrilla Regiment was a unit of the Indian National Army, that formed a part of the First INA and later part of the 1st Division after the INA's revival under Subhas Chandra Bose.[1][2] Subhas Bose named the regiment after Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the 1st Prime Minister of India.[3][4][5]
The unit did not participate in the INA's Imphal campaign, and was later transferred to the command of Lt. Col. Gurubaksh Singh Dhillon in 1944. It fought against the Commonwealth forces during the Irrawaddy crossing and later in around Popa Hill.[6]
References
edit- ^ "'Subhas Chandra Bose had named INA brigades after Nehru, Gandhi not Savarkar'". 27 January 2016.
- ^ "Netaji Wasn't 'India's First PM', He Was the Second. And He Was No 'Hindu PM'". 14 February 2022.
- ^ "Subhas Chandra Bose birth anniversary: When Netaji gave Gandhi the title of 'Father of the Nation'". MSN. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ "'Subhas Chandra Bose had named INA brigades after Nehru, Gandhi not Savarkar'". Zee News. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ "On Parakram Diwas, a look at Bose's Indian National Army". Hindustan Times. 23 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ "Subhas Chandra Bose, Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru: Admirers or adversaries? A myth buster".
Further reading
edit- Fay, Peter W. (1993), The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence, 1942-1945. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press., ISBN 0-472-08342-2