Editing Azad Hind (section)

== INA defeat and Provisional Government collapse ==
Left to defend Rangoon from the British advance without support from the Japanese, the INA was soundly defeated. Bose was suggested to leave Burma to continue his struggle for Indian independence and returned to Singapore before the fall of Rangoon; the government Azad Hind had established on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands collapsed when the island garrisons of Japanese and Indian troops were defeated by British troops and the islands themselves retaken. Allegedly Bose himself was killed in a plane crash departing from [[Taiwan]] attempting to escape to the Soviet Union. The Provisional Government of Free India ceased to exist with the deaths of the Axis, the INA, and the disappearance of Bose in 1945.

[[File:2 Annas Token currency (Unclassified exonumia › Miscellaneous token), minted in August 1947 in remembrance of the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose led Azad Hind Government, photo taken by Yogabrata Chakraborty.jpg|thumb|Two Annas Token currency, minted in August 1947, in remembrance of the Azad Hind]]

The troops who manned the brigades of the Indian National Army were taken as [[prisoners of war]] by the British. A number of these prisoners were brought to India and tried by British courts for treason, including a number of high-ranking officers such as Colonel Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon. The defence of these individuals from [[prosecution]] by the British became a central point of contention between the [[British Raj]] and the [[Indian Independence Movement]] in the post-war years.<ref>{{Cite web|title=नेताजी की जयंती: यूं अस्तित्व में आई आजाद हिंद फौज, पंजाब के जनरल मोहन सिंह ने की थी स्थापना|url=https://www.amarujala.com/chandigarh/netaji-s-birth-anniversary-azad-hind-fauj-came-into-existence-like-this-was-founded-by-general-mohan-singh-of-punjab|access-date=2022-01-23|website=Amar Ujala|language=hi}}</ref>