Entry of Subhas Bose in India politics

Subhas had well-formed political opinions even before joining active  politics.At Cambridge he studied modern European History including some original source books " These original sources", Bose recalls, " more than anything elseI studied at Cambridge, helped to rouse my political sense and to foster my understanding of the inner currents of International Politics." He followed the path of "uncompromising idealism" to achieve his goal. He had already made up his mind that revolution was needed to to fight imperialism and for this the Indian people had to be organised. He believed that the ideas of revolution were not to be imported either Russia or any other country of the world.
Bose arrived from Cambridge to Bombay on 16 July 1921. when Congress had already taken decision on Non-Violent and Non-Cooperation movement to be adopted to achieve Independence.
As suggested by C.R.Das with whom he had some correspondence before coming to India.

First Meeting with Gandhiji    

Almost immediately after landing in Bombay, Subhas went straight to Mani Bhavan to meet Gandhi when Gandhiji's influence in Congress had increased tremendously and Congress had decided in its special session held in Calcutta in the autumn of 1920 to enter a new and dynamic phase with Gandhiji's unique weapons of Satyagraha and Non-Cooperation.
Subhas asked Gandhiji three questions.

1. How were the different activities conducted by the Congress likely to culminate in the last stage of the campaign , viz. the non-payment of taxes ?
2. How could mere non-payment of taxes or civil disobedience force the Government to retire from the field and and leave India a free nation ?
3. How could the Mahatma promise Swaraj within one year as he had been constantly doing ?
 his reply to the first question satisfied Bose; that to the second did not appeal to him while the third fared no better.
Bose's initial confrontation with Gandhi thus revealed the gulf between their thinking and approach to political problems.
"Though I tried to persuade myself at the time that there must have been a lack of understanding on my part," Bose wrote later, "my reason told me clearly,again and again,, that there was a deplorable lack of clarity in the plan that the Mahatma had formulated and that he himself did not have a clear idea of the successive stages of the campaign  - which would bring India to her cherished goal of freedom."

Bose did not surrender himself to the magic personality of Mahatma, rather he went straight to C.R.Das to report in Calcutta.
C.R.Das and Motilal Nehru were perhaps the only two leadership  who could claim to be anywhere near the level of Gandhi. Apart from his legal brilliance and forensic skill , Das had the heart of a poet and the spirit of a revolutionary. His munificence was proverbial.
Bose was captivated by Das at their first meeting ; "During the course of our conversation I began to feel," he recalled later , "that here was a man who knew what he was about  and could give all that they could give, a man to whom youthfulness was not a short coming but a virtue. " This time Bose felt that he had found a leader to follow.
Das welcomed him with a number of responsible jobs,
1. He was put in charge of publicity for the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee and made the head of the National Volunteer Corps.
2. He was also appointed Principal of the newly started National College
3..  Editor of Banglar Katha, a nationalist Paper founded by C.R.Das, and then Forward, a English daily, and Atma Shakti