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{{short description|German economist and politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Anita Bose Pfaff
| image = File:The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee receiving the first copy of the book “Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Germany” from Smt. Anita Bose, the daughter of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, in New Delhi on February 06, 2013.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Anita Bose Pfaff and the former [[President of India]], [[Pranab Mukherjee]].
| birth_name = Anita Schenkl
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1942|11|29}}
| birth_place = [[Vienna]], [[Austria]]
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| nationality = [[Austrians|Austrian]]
| other_names =
| known_for =
| spouse = [[Martin Pfaff]]
| parents = [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] and [[Emilie Schenkl]]
| children = {{unbulleted list|Peter Arun|Thomas Krishna|Maya Carina}}
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'''Anita Bose Pfaff''' (born 29 November 1942) is an Austrian economist, who has previously been a professor at the [[University of Augsburg]] as well as a politician in the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany]].<ref name="indiatimes.com">{{cite web|url=https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/sunday-read/to-have-an-iconic-dad-is-of-course-difficult-says-anita-bose-pfaff-/articleshow/61310936.cms|title=‘To have an iconic dad is, of course, difficult’ says Anita Bose Pfaff, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s daughter|publisher=}}</ref> She is the daughter of Indian [[Indian independence movement|nationalist]] [[Subhash Chandra Bose]] (1897–1945) and his wife, {{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=15}}{{efn|"While writing ''The Indian Struggle'', Bose also hired a secretary by the name of Emilie Schenkl. They eventually fell in love and married secretly in accordance with Hindu rites."{{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=15}}}} or companion,{{sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=344–345}}{{efn|"Although we must take Emilie Schenkl at her word (about her secret marriage to Bose in 1937), there are a few nagging doubts about an actual marriage ceremony because there is no document that I have seen and no testimony by any other person. ... Other biographers have written that Bose and Miss Schenkl were married in 1942, while Krishna Bose, implying 1941, leaves the date ambiguous. The strangest and most confusing testimony comes from A. C. N. Nambiar, who was with the couple in Badgastein briefly in 1937, and was with them in Berlin during the war as second-in-command to Bose. In an answer to my question about the marriage, he wrote to me in 1978: 'I cannot state anything definite about the marriage of Bose referred to by you, since I came to know of it only a good while after the end of the last world war ... I can imagine the marriage having been a very informal one ...'... So what are we left with? ... We know they had a close passionate relationship and that they had a child, Anita, born 29 November 1942, in Vienna. ... And we have Emilie Schenkl's testimony that they were married secretly in 1937. Whatever the precise dates, the most important thing is the relationship."{{sfn|Gordon|1990|pp=344–345}}}} [[Emilie Schenkl]].{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|p=15}}{{efn|"Apart from the Free India Centre, Bose also had another reason to feel satisfied-even comfortable-in Berlin. After months of residing in a hotel, the Foreign Office procured a luxurious residence for him along with a butler, cook, gardener and an SS-chauffeured car. Emilie Schenkl moved in openly with him. The Germans, aware of the nature of their relationship, refrained from any involvement. The following year she gave birth to a daughter.{{sfn|Hayes|2011|p=15}}}}

==Early life==

Pfaff is the only child of [[Emilie Schenkl]] and [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], who—with a view to attempting an armed attack on the [[British Raj]] with the help of Imperial Japan—left Schenkl and Pfaff in Europe, and moved to southeast Asia, when Pfaff was four months old.{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|p=159}}{{efn|"By the time Bose left, he had more or less obtained what he wanted: a submarine to go off to Asia, limitations as to how and where the Legion could be used (the only one in fact not directed at the Soviet Union), Luftwaffe training, at a time when Germany suffered a serious dearth in aircraft, acceptance of left-wing Indians in high-ranking positions and even racial exemptions to marry German women? Bose himself was the prime example, living and conceiving a child openly as he did with Emilie Schenkl, in complete defiance of Nazi racial laws."{{Sfn|Hayes|2011|p=159}}}} Pfaff was raised by her mother, who worked shifts in the trunk office during the postwar years to support the family, which included Pfaff's maternal grandmother.<ref name="Bose2015"/> Pfaff was not given her father's last name at birth, and grew up as Anita Schenkl.<ref name="Bose2015">{{cite book|author=Madhuri Bose|title=The Bose Brothers and Indian Independence: An Insider’s Account|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MLSqCwAAQBAJ|date=12 November 2015|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5150-396-5}}</ref>

==Academic career==

As of 2012, Pfaff was a professor of economics at the [[University of Augsburg]].<ref name="indiatimes.com"/>

==Marriage and family==

Pfaff is married to Professor [[Martin Pfaff]], who was previously a member of the [[Bundestag]] (the German parliament), representing the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]]. They have three children: Peter Arun, Thomas Krishna and Maya Carina .<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/may/11inter.htm|title=Netaji's daughter speaks!|website=www.rediff.com}}</ref>

==Media==

Pfaff is mentioned in the [[Bollywood]] film ''[[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349878/|title=Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero|publisher=|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
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===Citations===
*{{citation|last=Bose|first=Sarmila|title=Love in the Time of War: Subhas Chandra Bose's Journeys to Nazi Germany (1941) and towards the Soviet Union (1945)|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=40|issue=3|year=2005|pages=249–256|jstor=4416082}}
*{{citation|last=Bose|first=Sugata|authorlink=Sugata Bose|title=His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g-pfHRAD03AC|accessdate=22 September 2013|year=2011|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-04754-9}}
* {{citation|last=Gordon|first=Leonard A.|title=Brothers against the Raj: a biography of Indian nationalists Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J8s-AQAAIAAJ|accessdate=17 November 2013|year=1990|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-07442-1}}
* {{citation|last=Hayes|first=Romain|title=Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany: Politics, Intelligence and Propaganda 1941-1943|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CRt9mgEACAAJ|accessdate=22 September 2013|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-932739-3}}

== External links ==
# [http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_the-curious-case-of-the-gold-bangles_1637682 Subhash Chandra Bose Wife Story]
# [http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/may/11inter.htm Anita Bose-Daughter of SC Bose speaks]
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