South East Asia - Subhas and Rashbihari Bose

Southeast Asia was under Indian influence starting around 200 BC until around the 15th century, when Hindu-Buddhist influence was absorbed by local polities. India had established trade, cultural and political relations with Southeast Asian kingdoms in Burma, Thailand,Indonesia, Malay Peninsula, Cambodia and, to a lesser extent, Vietnam.

Country	Religions
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Predominantly Hinduism, with significant Muslim, Christian, and Sikh minorities.
Brunei	Islam (67%), Buddhism, Christianity, others (indigenous beliefs, etc.)
Burma	Buddhism (89%), Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Animism, others
Cambodia	Buddhism (97%), Islam, Christianity, Animism, others
Christmas Island	Buddhism, Islam, Christianity
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	Islam (80%), others
East Timor	Roman Catholicism (90%), Islam, Protestantism, Buddhism, Hinduism
Indonesia	Islam (87.18%), Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, others[45]
Laos	Buddhism (67%), Animism, Christianity, others
Malaysia	Islam (60.4%), Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Animism
Philippines	Roman Catholicism (80%), Islam (11%),[46] Protestantism (6%), Evangelical (2.8%), Iglesia ni Cristo (2.2%), Philippine Independent Church (Aglipayan Church) (2%), other Christian denominations (3%), Buddhism (1.5%),[47] Animism (1.25%) others (Hinduism, Baha'i, Judaism, etc.)
Singapore	Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Hinduism, others
South China Sea Islands	unknown
Thailand	Buddhism (95%), Islam (4.6%), others (0.8%)
Vietnam	Vietnamese folk religion (45.3%), Buddhism (16.4%), Christianity (8.2%), Muslim (0.2%), Other (0.4%), Unaffiliated

The peoples of maritime Southeast Asia — present day Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines — are thought to have migrated southwards from southern China sometime between 2500 and 1500 BC. The influence of the civilization of India gradually became predominant among them, and among the peoples of the Southeast Asian mainland. Indian traders, adventurers, teachers and priests continued to be the dominating influence in Southeast Asia until about 1500 CE, and Indians often ruled the earliest states in these regions. Hinduism and Buddhism both spread to these states from India and for many centuries existed there with mutual toleration. Eventually the states of the mainland became mainly Buddhist.

• Maritime Southeast Asia, comprising Indonesia, East Malaysia, Singapore,Philippines, East Timor, Brunei, andChristmas Island.
• Mainland Southeast Asia, also known asIndochina, comprising Cambodia, Laos,Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Vietnam, and West Malaysia;

The territories of mainland southeast Asia comprise the following:

• Cambodia
• Laos
• Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia only)
• Myanmar (formerly Burma; part of British Indiauntil 1937)
• Thailand (formerly Siam)
• Vietnam

In June 1943rash Bihari Bose , President of the IIL met Subhas Bosein the Imperial hoteland briefed him about the situation and requested himto take up leadership of the Indian Independence movement in th far east. Rash Bihari escaped to japan under the name Tagore after he had thrown a bomb at Lord Hardinge , the then Viceroy and Governor General of India , in 1912, and since then had been staying in Japan, as its citizen , marrying a Japanese woman. earlier, for several years he was protected by Prof. Toyama, of the Black Society of Japan.
The day after Japan entered World War II, the IIL, was officially inaugurated at Bangkok in December 1941, under the leadership of Baba Amar Singh , assisted by Giani Pritam Singh, two young Indian revolutionaries who had escaped in Dec 1940 from Hong Kong prison, where they were imprisoned for their anti-British movement and sought asylum under the Japanese government.
Rash Bihari Bose handed over his Presidentship of IIL to Subhas Bose.