INA Memorial Complex

Statue and museum on the spot where Subhas Chandra Bose first raised the INA flag on Indian soil

The INA Memorial Complex on the southern edge of Moirang town is the principal reason most travellers stop here. The site marks the spot where, on 14 April 1944, the Indian National Army first raised the tricolour on Indian soil during the brief INA advance into Manipur alongside Japanese forces. The complex is a small but well-kept site: a tall bronze statue of Subhas Chandra Bose, the INA's commander-in-chief, on a high pedestal, and a museum building behind.

Inside the museum is a modest but interesting collection — INA uniforms, weapons, photographs, captured British documents, and personal items of officers who fought in the Imphal–Kohima campaigns. Labels are in English and Manipuri. Allow about an hour. The complex is open daily except Mondays, with a small entry fee.

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On 14 April 1944, with Japanese-backed INA forces holding a thin strip of north-eastern India, Colonel Shaukat Malik raised the tricolour of the provisional government over Moirang. It was the first time the Indian flag of the freedom movement was hoisted on Indian territory by Indian forces. The advance reached no further; British counter-attacks at Kohima and Imphal weeks later turned the tide of the war in Asia.