Early Life of Netaji
Bose was the ninth child of a family of 14 and the sixth son of Prabhavati Bose and Janakinath Bose. He was born on the 23rd of January 1897 in Cuttack, in the Orissa division of Bengal Province under British India. HE was born with the proverbial “silver spoon” surrounded by affluence, wealth and privilege. His father Janaki Nath Bose was a famous lawyer. It was his mother Prabhavati Devi who nurtured the traits of kindness, altruism, and empathy in him. A deeply religious person, her prayers and worships to the Goddess Durga and Kali would be interpreted with deeply engrossing stories from the Mahabharata and Ramayana and religious songs.. Groomed in the environment of quiet contemplation and purposeful reflection, Subhas imbibed a spirit of compassion, looking for situations in which to help people in distress. Equally strong were his skills of reason, logic and objectivity that helped shape his charismatic personality. His early influences included his headmaster, Beni Madhav Das, and the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
In 1916, Bose was expelled from Presidency College and banished from Calcutta University over an incident where students attacked English professor. However, in 1917 he was accepted in Scottish Church College, Calcutta, graduating with first class honours in philosophy in 1919. He entered Cambridge University on 9 September 1919 to study for the Indian Civil Service Examination, placing fourth after only eight months of study. Even so, Bose did not stay long in the civil service, resigning in 1921. His interest was elsewhere.
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