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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose with a guard of honour and the flag, at Port Blair in 1943. He visited the Andaman Islands from 29 to 31 December 1943 as head of the Azad Hind government, after Japan announced that the islands would be handed to it, staying at the former Chief Commissioner’s residence on Ross Island.
One of three stamps on the sheet India Post issued on 30 December 2018 for the 75th anniversary of the first hoisting of the Tricolour at Port Blair: on 30 December 1943 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose raised the flag at the Gymkhana Ground, on the first Indian territory freed from British rule. The stamps were designed by Sankha Samanta, with text by Pallab Bose; 500,710 of each were printed by wet offset at the India Security Press, Nashik.
