The Soldier and the Revolutionary

The Soldier and the Revolutionary

Part One: Bose. India, 1897–1920sThe public life of Subhas Chandra Bose began with a scuffle in a Calcutta school corridor and a history teacher he transformed into a verb.In 1897, while his parents celebrated the arrival of baby Subhas, the land that he would one day attempt to liberate marked the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria, Empress of India, with vast—and vastly expensive—public ceremony. At the same time officials struggled to provide …