2018 - 75 years of Tricolour in Andamans

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The fifth and last release function of 2018 saw the release of a coin commemorating the 75 years of Tricolour in Andamans.

The details of the Coin are;

On 30 December 1943, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose hoisted the National Flag for the first time at the Gymkhana Ground (present Netaji Stadium) in Port Blair. He also announced the Islands, the first Indian Territory freed from the British rule.

Bose named Andaman Island as Shaheed and Nicobar Island as Swaraj and appointed INA General AD Loganathan as the governor of the Islands. Azad Hind Government was not merely a Government in Exile anymore but had its own land, own currency, civil code and stamps.

By hoisting the Azad Hind flag, Bose - the head of Provisional Government of Azad Hind - also fulfilled his promise that INA would stand on the Indian soil by the end of 1943.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had established the provincial Azad Hind Government in Singapore on October 21, 1943. On August 14, 1944, the Bahadur Brigade of the INA, led by Colonel Saukat Ali Malik, captured Moirang - a town in Manipur on the Indo-Myanmar border.

Moirang remained under the control of the Azad Hind Government for nearly four months during which its currency and stamps too were used.

The Azad Hind Government had then been recognized by 11 countries and it had its embassies in other countries too.


Release Functions
Coins released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi