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| Location | Lala Lajpat Rai (Elgin) Sarani, Sreepally, Bhowanipore, Kolkata, India |
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Netaji Bhawan orNetaji Bhavan (Bengali:নেতাজি ভবন;lit. 'Netaji's Residence') is a heritage building in Kolkata,West Bengal, maintained as a memorial and research center to the life of the Indian nationalist "Netaji"Subhas Chandra Bose.[1] It is currently the headquarters ofNetaji Research Bureau.[2]
The house, built by Bose's father in 1909,[3] is owned and managed by the Netaji Research Bureau and includes a museum, archives and library. The Bureau is run bySugata Bose and his mother,Krishna Bose.[4] The building is onLala Lajpat Rai Sarani in Kolkata.
Bose escaped fromhouse arrest at Netaji Bhawan in 1941 and fled to Berlin. After that, he traveled to Japan-occupiedSoutheast Asia by submarine (GermanU-boatU-180 andJapanese submarine I-29), organizedIndian National Army, and fought againstBritish Raj with theImperial Japanese Army.
Relics of Bose's footprints are exhibited in the museum.
After the Second World War,Mohandas K. Gandhi andJawaharlal Nehru visited Netaji Bhawan.
Recently, in 2007,Prime Minister of JapanShinzō Abe visited the Netaji Bhawan.[5]
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