In which place in Manipur did the Indian National Army unfurl the Indian…

During the Second World War, the Indian National Army (INA), organised under Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose with Japanese support, launched a campaign in early 1944 to cross into British India from Burma and advance toward Delhi. As INA units moved into the north-eastern frontier alongside Japanese forces, capturing a town from British control carried both military and symbolic weight, since it let the INA formally claim Indian soil as free even before full independence.

On 14 April 1944, an advance unit of the INA under Colonel Shaukat Malik entered Moirang, a town on the shore of Loktak Lake south of Imphal, after local British forces withdrew. Malik hoisted the Indian Tricolour at Moirang that day, making it the first place on Indian soil where the flag was raised by an Indian nationalist force during the war.

• Imphal remained under Allied (British-Indian) control through the prolonged Battle of Imphal in 1944; the INA did not capture the town or hoist the flag there.

• Moreh, on the India-Myanmar frontier, served as a supply and transit route for the INA-Japanese advance, not the site of the flag-hoisting.

• Wangoi, a locality near Imphal, has no recorded connection to the 14 April 1944 flag-hoisting event.

Hence, Moirang is the place where the INA unfurled the Indian Tricolour on 14 April 1944.