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====Azad Hind====
{{Main|Indian National Army|Azad Hind}}
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The ''Arzi Hukumat-e-[[Azad Hind]]'', the "Provisional Government of Free India" was a state that was recognized by nine Axis governments, and accepted as part of the axis by the Japanese.<ref name="Gow et al1">{{cite book |last1=Gow |first1=I |last2=Hirama |first2=Y |last3=Chapman |first3=J |title=Volume III: The Military Dimension The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600–2000 |year=2003 |publisher=Springer |isbn=0230378870 |page=208 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eoyDDAAAQBAJ&q=%22Thailand%22+%22part+of+the+axis%22 |access-date=27 October 2020}}</ref>

It was led by [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], an [[Indian nationalist]] who rejected [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s nonviolent methods for achieving independence. The [[First Indian National Army]] faltered after its leadership objected to being a propaganda tool for Japanese war aims, and the role of [[I Kikan|Japanese liaison office]]. It was revived by the [[Indian Independence League]] with Japanese support in 1942 after the ex-PoWs and Indian civilians in South-east Asia agreed to participate in the INA venture on the condition it was led by Bose. From occupied Singapore Bose declared India's independence on October 21, 1943 . The Indian National Army was committed as a part of the [[Operation U-Go|U Go Offensive]]. It played a largely marginal role in the battle, and suffered serious casualties and had to withdraw with the rest of Japanese forces after the [[Battle of Imphal|siege of Imphal]] was broken. It was later committed to the defence of Burma [[Burma campaign 1944–45|against the Allied offensive]]. It suffered a large number of desertions in this latter part. The remaining troops of the INA maintained order in Rangoon after the withdrawal of Ba Maw's government. The provisional government was given [[Japanese occupation of the Andaman Islands|nominal control of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] from November 1943 to August 1945.