Answer the following questions based on the picture given below:

(a) What were the INA's objectives?

(b) What was Subhas' contribution to INA's victories over the British?

(a) INA's objectives, as stated by Subhas himself, were as follows:

1. To mobilise all their forces effectively to lead Indian people to regain their lost freedom.
2. To prepare the Indian people inside and outside India for "an armed struggle". Subhas said, "Since the enemy fights with the sword, we too should fight with the sword." Only then can we "win the race and get the reward of freedom."
3. To organize a Provisional Government of Free India.
4. To go on fighting till the last Britisher is either cast in prison or thrown out of the country.

(b) Subhas persuaded Japan's Prime Minister Tojo to give the fighter planes, war tanks, artillery and lorries used to transport food, equipment and soldiers to the front line. As INA's supreme leader, his achievements were as follows:

Formation of the Provisional Government of Free India —

1. On 21^st October, 1943 he announced the formation of the Provisional Government of Free India and declared War on the Allies.
2. The slogans—Jai Hind (Victory to India) and Delhi Chalo (march to Delhi)—became the battle cry of the INA.
3. On 8^th November, 1943 Japan handed over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the Provisional Government of India.
4. In the last week of December Subhas paid a visit to these islands and renamed them as Shahid and Swaraj Islands respectively.
5. In 1944 Provisional Government's Headquarters were shifted from Singapore to Rangoon.

Struggle for India's Freedom and Victories won by INA —

1. The INA along with the Japanese army overran many territories in South-East Asia.
2. In 1944 they advanced up to the very frontier of India.
3. They besieged Kohima and reached Imphal.
4. They had the good fortune of planting Tricolour on the liberated soil of India (near Kohima) on 19 March 1944.
5. INA's military vehicles had entered Manipur also.
6. Imphal was expected to fall in April or near the beginning of May 1944.
7. Monsoon started before the fall of Imphal and by the end of May 1944 the Japanese forces started their retreat.
8. Rangoon (Yangon) was recaptured by the British early in May, 1945.
9. INA men were disarmed and made prisoners of war.
10. The surrender of Japan on August 15 sealed the fate of the INA also.