History India. Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempt during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Japan left a troubled legacy.This is the account of the militant nationalist and political theorist Subhas Bose. It has gone some way towards redressing the curious neglect with which Bose has been treated by political historians. He was probably the most controversial of those Indians working for independence from Britain in the years leading up to World war Two.