BRITISH INDIA: Provisional Government of Azad Hind, AR rupee, 1943, countermarked P.G.A.H. 1943 on a 1942 Bombay mint rupee of George VI, EF, RR, ex Noble Auction 109, Lot 2355 (2015). The Provisional Government of Azad Hind (Free India) was set up in Singapore during WWII by Subhash Chandra Bose, with support from Japan. This independence movement was led by Indian nationalists-in-exile who allied with Axis powers to free India from British colonial rule. Its members fought alongside the Japanese against the Allies, including British Indian units.
