HIND or the Provisional Government of Free India was an Indian provisional government established in Singapore in 1943. It was a part of a political movement originating in the 1940s outside of India with the purpose of allying with Axis POWERS to free India from British Rule. Established by Indian nationalists-in-exile during the latter part of the second world war in Singapore with MONETARY, military and political assistance from IMPERIAL Japan, to fight against British Rule in India.