Editing Azad Hind (section)

== Recognition ==
[[File:Greater East Asia Conference.JPG|thumb|300px|[[Greater East Asia Conference]] in November 1943, participants left to right: [[Ba Maw]], [[Zhang Jinghui]], [[Wang Jingwei]], [[Hideki Tojo]], [[Wan Waithayakon]], [[José P. Laurel]], [[Subhas Chandra Bose]].]]
Azad Hind was recognised as a legitimate state by only a small number of countries limited solely to Axis powers and their allies.<ref name="Recognition">{{cite web |title=Indian National Army : Provisional Government of Azad Hind |url=https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/online_exhibit/indian_national_army/provi.htm |publisher=National Archives of Singapore |access-date=25 May 2020 |archive-date=31 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221231145132/https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/online_exhibit/indian_national_army/provi.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Azad Hind had diplomatic relations with nine countries: [[Nazi Germany]], the [[Empire of Japan]], [[Italian Social Republic]], and [[Wang Jingwei Government]], [[Thailand in World War II|Thailand]], the [[State of Burma]], [[Manchukuo]] and the [[Second Philippine Republic]].<ref name="Relations">{{cite news |title=Can we declare Bose as India's first head of the state of a provisional government? |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/indus-calling/can-we-declare-bose-as-indias-first-head-of-the-state-of-a-provisional-government/ |access-date=25 May 2020 |work=The Times of India |agency=he Times Group |publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. |date=20 October 2018}}</ref>  [[Vichy France]], however, although being an Axis collaborator, never gave formal political recognition to Azad Hind. This government participated as an observer in the [[Greater East Asia Conference]] in November 1943.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-10-21|title=Explained: Why Azad Hind Diwas Is Celebrated On October 21|url=https://www.indiatimes.com/explainers/news/on-october-21-the-anniversary-of-the-formation-of-azad-hind-government-is-celebrated-552243.html|access-date=2022-01-23|website=IndiaTimes|language=en-IN}}</ref>