Contents: Vol. I: Subhas Chandra Bose: His Ideas and Vision: Preface. 1. Kranti-Pathik Neta Subhas/Manwati Arya. 2. Subhas Chandra: the true heir of Swami Vivekananda/Ratna Ghosh. 3. The political philosophy of Netaji Bose/H.N. Sarkar. 4. Sri Aurobindo and Subhas Chandra Bose/Amalendu De. 5. Deshbandhu and Subhas Chandra Bose/Krishna Sen. 6. Rabindranath and Subhas Chandra--opposites brought together/Chitra Ghosh. 7. Gandhi-Subhas relationship in the context of Indian freedom movement/Prabir Dutta. 8. Subhas Chandra and the revolutionaries/Manju Gopal Mukherjee. 9. Subhas Chandra on youth power/Nanda Mookherjee. 10. Subhas Bose, women and revolution in late colonial Bengal: a study of harmony in dissonance/Ishanee Mukherjee. 11. Netaji's attitude towards women and his programme regarding women's empowerment in Free India/Lakshmi Sehgal. 12. Subhas Chandra Bose and his concept of socialism/Ashoke Mustafi. 13. Subhas Chandra Bose and the Communist Movement in India: a study in ideological and political interactions/Debnarayan Modak. 14. Subhash Chandra Bose and the Indian labour/Nirban Basu. 15. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and national planning/Subrata Gupta. 16. Subhas Chandra Bose and the communal problem--a new perspective/Sumit Mukherjee. 17. Subhas Chandra Bose: his concept of peace and international order/Subhas Chandra Chatterjee. 18. Subhas Chandra Bose's concept of Free India/D. Dasan. 19. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: a literary appreciation/Chittabrata Palit. 20. Subhas--the forgotten hero/Aruna Chatterjee. Index.

Vol. II: Netaji and Indian National Army (INA): Preface. 1. Bayan Rani Jhansi regiment Ka/Manwati Arya. 2. Ek Rani Ki Kahani/Aruna Chatterjee. 3. New facts on the escape of Subhas Chandra Bose through Afghanistan and USSR to Germany (According to documents from the archives of Russian federation)/Yu N. Tikhonov. 4. Indian legion in Germany/A.V. Raikov. 5. The Indian legion--the first revolutionary army of India's freedom/Subhash Chandra Chatterjee. 6. Role of Mohan Singh in the formation of INA/A.V. Raikov. 7. Rash Behari Bose and Subhas Chandra Bose/Manwati Arya. 8. Subhas Chandra Bose's Azad Hind Fauj, 1942-45: a structural anatomy/Kaushik Roy. 9. Subhas Chandra Bose, INA--a fresh look/Pranab Ghosh. 10. Netaji and the Rani of Jhansi regiment/Agamani Lahiri. 11. The Rani of Jhansi regiment and women empowerment/Roma Banerjee. 12. Forgotten soldiers--Indian students in Japan during World War II/Grant K. Goodman. 13. The INA's secret service/Tapan Chattopadhyay. 14. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and national integration/Gautam Chando Roy. 15. Bengal students in flame against the I.N.A. trial/Rajarshi Mahapatra. 16. Trial of INA and the mass movement/A.V. Raikov. 17. Beginning of post-war upsurge--a review 21 November, 1945, Calcutta/Bratati Hore. 18. Decisive role of the INA in India's freedom/Girish Chandra Maiti. 19. Netaji: an assessment/Ratna Ghosh. Index.

"Subhas Chandra Bose, popularly known as Netaji was an outstanding leader of the Indian National Movement. The life of Subhas reads like a thrilling saga of most dramatic events. Subhas was truly the greatest hero of India's struggle for freedom.

Subhas Chandra Bose was born on 23 January, 1897 at Cuttack in Orissa. Subhas was almost hypnotized by Swami Vivekananda's teachings "seek your salvation in the welfare of humanity." He had found his ideal to which he could devote his whole being. He graduated from the Calcutta University and qualified for the Indian Civil Service. This led to mental conflicts as to whether or not he should join the coveted heaven born service. At last he resigned his attractive career to serve the cause of India's freedom. Subhas Chandra Bose had joined the non-cooperation movement and since then had been a promising dynamic young man of the Congress organization. Yet he nurtured revolutionary ideas and was never really-fully happy with Gandhiji's philosophy and technique of political agitations. He was convinced that India could not achieve independence without foreign assistance. INA was the last major attempt made by Subhas Chandra Bose on a foreign soil in a bid to Free India from British Yoke. He could not adjust himself with the Congress High Command and formed a new party known as the forward bloc. In 1941 he was under strict surveillance of the government at his own house at Calcutta. From there he suddenly slipped away from India and through north-east frontier and Afghanistan reached Germany. There he launched himself on a new course of political career.

This outstanding book in two volumes studies the ideas, vision and struggle of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose for India's freedom." (jacket)