Is there anyway this guy could end up becoming the leader of India during/after World War II?
Would he have been influential enough to become President or Prime Minister by 1947-50?Anyway, if the British don't dare to execute Subhas Chandra Bose, he will eventually be freed--if not by the British, by the Indian National Congress once it comes to power. And remember that even if he isn't liberated until 1947, he will only be 50 years old, and could be a powerful influence in the politics of independent India.
Most likely. In a poll conducted to choose the most popular freedom fighter a few years back Subhas Chandra Bose was much ahead of Mahatma Gandhi. I think Bose was at second spot close behind Bhagat Singh. Mahatma Gandhi was third and Nehru was at the sixth position behind Ambedkar and Sardar Patel.Would he have been influential enough to become President or Prime Minister by 1947-50?
Most likely. In a poll conducted to choose the most popular freedom fighter a few years back Subhas Chandra Bose was much ahead of Mahatma Gandhi. I think Bose was at second spot close behind Bhagat Singh. Mahatma Gandhi was third and Nehru was at the sixth position behind Ambedkar and Sardar Patel.
What would Bose's India look like in contrast to OTL's India?Most likely. In a poll conducted to choose the most popular freedom fighter a few years back Subhas Chandra Bose was much ahead of Mahatma Gandhi. I think Bose was at second spot close behind Bhagat Singh. Mahatma Gandhi was third and Nehru was at the sixth position behind Ambedkar and Sardar Patel.
And why would Britain do that?Putting him in gallows would turn India against the west, India may end up becoming a real soviet ally. IndianOr maybe the British authorities are not that naive.
Bose surrenders in the summer of 1945, they put him in jail and instruct a trial. Some of the Nuremberg trials of the secondary criminals ended as late as 1949. The British simply drag things along, and in July 1947 they reach a verdict, quickly send Bose to the gallows, and are done with him. This might cause some rioting in India, but it's difficult to see this as worse than what is already happening. And in a month, the British are out and the Indians and Pakistanis are killing each other by the hundreds of thousands, so they have other fish to fry and for the time being, they forget.
Later on, yes, he's more of a hero than in OTL, and you get 10-meter tall statues of Bose, but after all that's no significant change from the 5-meter tall ones of OTL.
Or maybe the British authorities are not that naive.
Bose surrenders in the summer of 1945, they put him in jail and instruct a trial. Some of the Nuremberg trials of the secondary criminals ended as late as 1949. The British simply drag things along, and in July 1947 they reach a verdict, quickly send Bose to the gallows, and are done with him. This might cause some rioting in India, but it's difficult to see this as worse than what is already happening. And in a month, the British are out and the Indians and Pakistanis are killing each other by the hundreds of thousands, so they have other fish to fry and for the time being, they forget.
Later on, yes, he's more of a hero than in OTL, and you get 10-meter tall statues of Bose, but after all that's no significant change from the 5-meter tall ones of OTL.
And why would Britain do that?Putting him in gallows would turn India against the west,
The problem is that the INC is almost certain to demand the liberation (or at least a guarantee of no death sentence--which amounts to eventual liberation) of Subhas Chandra Bose as a precondition of talks with the British.
Talks which in OTL were extremely fruitful in the 1945-47 period?
But I still doubt that the British are going to give up on the possibility of a negotiated settlement in advance and risk enormous anti-British violence just for the sake of executing Subhas Chandra Bose.
After all, in OTL a lesser reaction than such an execution was likely to bring caused them to commute the sentences in the first INA trial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Army_trials