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Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind (Urdu: عارضی حکومت‌ِ آزاد ھند, the Provisional Government of Free India), was a puppet state established by Indian nationalists-in-exile in areas of British India and Southeast Asian British colonial territory occupied by Imperial Japan during the Second World War. It was founded and led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on October 21, 1943 in Singapore with the fiscal and political assistance of the Axis Powers, namely Japan. While it possessed all the nominal requisites of a legitimate government, it lacked both universal political recognition and large and definite areas of sovereign territory until the government assumed control of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from Japan in 1943. Immediately after formation of this government-in-exile, which was recognised by the three Axis powers and their puppet states, Azad Hind declared war against the Anglo-American allied forces on the Indo-Burma Front. ^[1].Its army, the "Azad Hind Fauj", (Indian National Army or the INA) went into action against the British Indian Army and the allied forces in the Imphal-Kohima sector alongside the the Imperial Japanese Army. The INA was to make its mark in the battle of Imphal- along with the Japanese 15th Army and breached British defences in Kohima, reaching the salient of Moirang before Allied air dominance and compromised supply lines forced both the Japanese and the INA to lift the siege and retreat. ^[2] The government of Azad Hind had its own currency, court and civil code, but in practical application the government served largely as a front for a Japanese anti-Western, anti-imperialist ideological initiative against the British in India. The government of Azad Hind had its own currency, court and civil code, but in practical application the government served largely as a front for a Japanese anti-Western, anti-imperialist ideological initiative against the British in India.

It survived in a limited legal form until the collapse of the Japanese Empire in 1945. The existence of Azad Hind was essentially coterminous with the existence of the Indian National Army. While the government itself continued until the civil administration of the Andaman Islands was returned to the jurisdiction of the British towards the end of the war, the limited power of Azad Hind was effectively ended with the surrender of the last major contingent of INA troops in Rangoon. The supposed death of Bose is seen as culmination of the entire Azad Hind Movement.