Funny thing is that Bose actually kinda got the opposite of "whitewashing". In TNO he's an anti-Abrahamic (trying to purge the only integral part of India with an Abrahamic majority lmao) tinpot dictator working on behalf of Japan and allowing entire families within his government to do mercenary business while IRL he's just a left nationalist who wants to get the Anglo to fuck off no matter the means will be. It's probably the lead devs seeing a dude who wants no Anglos collaborating with a state that has "we want no Anglos and others" as its propaganda and immediately sperging about him not being an evil incarnate.
Also another thing is that the ebil ultranationalist Japanese dude was actually relatively less unhinged and was a ruthless but competent industrialist who invades India to make it a factory hellscape for the Sphere, but both India and Japan teams got purged, so that one was replaced with a stub path.