Indian National Military Ina Monument In Singapore

The first INA trial, which was held in public, became a rallying level for the independence movement from the autumn of 1945. The release of INA prisoners and the suspension of the trials came to be the dominant political marketing campaign, superseding the marketing campaign for independence. Christopher Bayly notes that the "INA was to become a means more powerful enemy of the British empire in defeat than it had been during its ill-fated triumphal march on Delhi." The Viceroy's journal describes the autumn and winter of 1945–1946 as "The Edge of a Volcano". 

The setting of the trial at Red Fort was taken by Indian public as a deliberate taunt by the British Raj over the vanquished INA, recalling the INA's battle cries of unfurling the Indian tricolour over the Red Fort. Many in contrast the trials to that of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the final Mughal emperor tried in the identical place after the failed 1857 rebellion. Support for the INA grew quickly and their continued detention and information of impending trials was seen an affront to the movement for independence and to Indian identity itself.

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The actions of the trade unions in the newly established Tamil schools had been particularly influential, resulting in the establishment of an inspector system by the British to oversee the curriculum and instructing in these colleges. Joyce Lebra notes that the INA had a particularly strong unifying affect over ethnic Indians residing in Malaya. Lebra concludes that the expertise of the INA was useful in challenging British authority within the post-war period in Malaya, and in enhancing the socio-economic circumstances of the Indian community.