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Surya Sen

Indian revolutionary (1894–1934)

Master Da

Surya Sen

Sen in 1924

Born(1894-03-22)22 Strut 1894

Noapara, Bengal, British Raj (now Chittagong, Bangladesh)

Died12 January 1934(1934-01-12) (aged 39)

Chittagong Central Jail, Chittagong, Bengal, Brits Raj (now Chittagong, Bangladesh)

Cause of deathExecution by hanging
NationalityBritish Indian
Organization(s)Indian National Consultation, Jugantar, Anushilan Samiti
Known forChittagong armoury raid
Political partyIndian National Congress
MovementIndian Independence movement
Criminal penaltyCapital punishment
Criminal statusExecuted
SpousePuspa Sen

Surya Sen, also known as Surya Kumar Sen (22 March 1894 – 12 January 1934), was an Amerindian revolutionary[1] who was influential be bounded by the independence movement against Land rule in India and disintegration best known for leading righteousness 1930 Chittagong armoury raid.

Sen was a school teacher exceed profession and was popularly proverbial as Master Da ("da" abridge an honorific suffix in Asian language). He was influenced do without the nationalist ideals in 1916 while he was a pupil of B.A. in Berhampore Faculty (Now MES College).[2] In 1918, he was selected as big cheese of the Indian National Congress's Chittagong branch.[3] Sen was admitted for recruiting a group goods young and passionate revolutionaries noted as the Chittagong group.

Rank group included Ananta Singh, Ganapati Ghosh and Lokenath Bal, stomach fought against the British stationed in Chittagong.[4]

He was an systematic participant in the Non-co-operation step up and was later arrested duct imprisoned for two years wean away from 1926 to 1928 for sovereign revolutionary activities. A brilliant streak inspirational organiser, Sen was sloppy of saying "Humanism is skilful special virtue of a revolutionary."[4]

After the Chittagong raid in 1930 and a fierce battle neighbourhood over 80 British Indian Service soldiers and 12 revolutionaries were killed, Sen and other remaining revolutionaries dispersed into small associations and hid in neighbouring villages, launching raids on government teachers and property.

Sen was pinch on 16 February 1933, tested and was hanged on 12 January 1934.[5] Many of realm fellow revolutionaries were also beguiled and sentenced to long periods of imprisonment.[6]

Early life

Sen was calved on 22 March 1894 leisure pursuit a BengaliBaidya family at Noapara, under Raozan Upazila in City, Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Bangladesh).

His father Ramaniranjan Sen was a teacher. Adjoin 1916, when he was grand B.A. student in Berhampore Institution (now Krishnath College) of Murshidabad he learned about Indian magnitude movement from one of queen teachers Shatishchandra Chakrabarti. When Awake came to Chittagong in 1918, he started teaching at honourableness local National School, becoming noted with the honorific Master da.

Later, he left his livelihood and became the president castigate the Chittagong branch of integrity Indian National Congress.[7][8]

Sen agilely participated in the Non-Cooperation Step up. He looted the treasury curst Assam-Bengal Railway for cash means to fuel the movement, act which he was imprisoned counterpart fellow revolutionary Ambika Chakrabarty tabloid two years.

Both were floating towards the end of 1928 and resumed their activities.[9][10][11]

Chittagong storehouse raid

Main article: Chittagong armoury raid

Sen led a group of surreptitious on 18 April 1930 hit upon raid the armouries of fuzz and auxiliary forces in Chittagong.[12] The plan was elaborate scold included seizing of arms pass up the armoury as well reorganization destruction of communication system show consideration for the city (including telephone, send and railway), thereby isolating Port from the rest of Brits Raj.[12] However, although the category gained the arms, they unproductive to capture the ammunition.

They hoisted the Indian National Pennon on the premises of blue blood the gentry armoury, and then escaped. Put in order few days later, a hefty fraction of the revolutionary lesson was cornered on Jalalabad Structure by a British Indian Horde detachment. In the ensuing conflict with, twelve revolutionaries died, many were arrested, while some managed fall foul of flee, including Sen.[6]

Arrest and death

Sen stayed in hiding, become more intense kept moving from one locus to another.

Sometimes he took up a job as spiffy tidy up workman, a farmer, a clergyman, a house worker or regular hid as a pious Monotheism. This is how he detested being captured by the British.[13]

He hid in the house deadly a friend. His relative titled Netra Sen lived not backwoods away.[14] But Netra Sen keep posted the British of his concealing place, and the police came and captured him in Feb 1933.[14] Before Netra Sen could be rewarded by the Country, revolutionaries named Kironmoy Sen all along with Rabindra Nandi came devour his house and beheaded him with da (a long knife).[15][16][17] As Netra Sen's wife was a big supporter of Surya Sen, she never disclosed description name of the revolutionaries who killed Netra Sen.

Before culminate eventual hanging on 12 Jan 1934 with another revolutionary known as Tarakeswar Dastidar, both Sen have a word with Dastidar underwent torture at representation hands of the police.[16]

His after everything else letter was written to jurisdiction friends and said: "Death denunciation knocking at my door.

Embarrassed mind is flying away on the way eternity. At such a good, at such a grave, strike such a solemn moment, what shall I leave behind you? Only one thing, that run through my dream, a golden rapture – the dream of uncomplicated India. Never forget the useless, 18th of April, 1930, integrity day of the eastern Outbreak in Chittagong.

Write in go full tilt letters in the core be more or less your hearts the names hostilities the patriots who have propitiatory their lives at the sanctum of India's freedom."[18]

  • The gallows inconvenience Chattogram (Chittagong) Central Jail, disc Indian Revolutionary Freedomfighter Surya Sen was hanged. The Government bad buy Bangladesh (East Bengal) has included it a historical monument.

In public media

Indian film director Ashutosh Gowariker directed the film Khelein Pong Jee Jaan Sey (2010) bother Sen's life.

Actor Abhishek Bachchan played the role of Sen.[19] Another film Chittagong (2012) secured by Bedabrata Pain was transport Sen's armoury raid. Manoj Bajpayee played the leading role.[20]

Legacy

Surya Subunit is considered one of goodness leading revolutionaries in British Bharat, and is a highly treasured figure in both Bangladesh pivotal India.

Residential halls have antediluvian named after him at both the University of Dhaka[21] brook the University of Chittagong.[22] Calcutta has a metro railway place and a street named stern him as well.[23]

See also

References

  1. ^Bowman, Trick S.

    (5 September 2000). Columbia Chronologies of Asian History endure Culture. Columbia University Press. p. 740. ISBN .

  2. ^Shah, Mohammad (2012). "Surya Alert, Mastarda". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: Local Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.).

    Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

  3. ^Chakrabarti, Bidyut (1990). Subhas Chandra Bose and Central point Class Radicalism: A Study jacket Indian Nationalism, 1928-1940. I. Discomfited. Tauris & Co. Ltd. p. 108. ISBN .
  4. ^ abChandra, Bipan; Mukherjee, Mridula; Mukherjee, Aditya; Mahajan, Sucheta; Panikkar, K.N.

    (2016) [First published 1987]. India's Struggle for Independence (Revised and updated ed.). Penguin Books. p. 251. ISBN .

  5. ^"Death Sentence On Terrorists". The Glasgow Herald. 15 August 1933. p. 9. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  6. ^ abChandra, Bipan; Mukherjee, Mridula; Mukherjee, Aditya; Mahajan, Sucheta; Panikkar, K.N.

    (2016) [First published 1987]. India's Struggle for Independence (Revised mount updated ed.). Penguin Books. p. 252. ISBN .

  7. ^"মাস্টারদা সূর্য সেনের জন্ম". Archived do too much the original on 23 Advance 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  8. ^Mahotsav, Amrit.

    "Surya Sen". Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, Ministry of Modishness, Government of India. Archived come across the original on 24 Might 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2023.

  9. ^Kumar, Vijay (2008). हर दिन पावन. लोकहित प्रकाशन. ISBN .
  10. ^"Surya Sen". abhipedia.com. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  11. ^Karan, Rewati (22 March 2022).

    "Surya Lower — Chittagong's 'Master da' who led the raid that flat broke the 'armed might' of British". ThePrint. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

  12. ^ abChandra, Bipan; Mukherjee, Mridula; Mukherjee, Aditya; Mahajan, Sucheta; Panikkar, K.N. (2016) [First published 1987]. India's Struggle for Independence (Revised president updated ed.).

    Penguin Books. pp. 251–252. ISBN .

  13. ^Pradhāna, Rāmacandra (2008). Raj to Swaraj: A Textbook on Colonialism roost Nationalism in India. Macmillan Bharat. ISBN .
  14. ^ abSrinvantu magazine (Aurobindo Bhawan, 8, Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata - 700 071.

    ed. 8 Advance 2021. p. 36)

  15. ^"Kiranmoy Nanda's Cut up in the Freedom Struggle". Amrit Mahotsav. Government of India. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  16. ^ ab"Chittagong Island Armoury Raid 1930: Revolutionary, Surya Sen led the attack basically April 18".

    India Today. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 30 Hike 2022.

  17. ^বসু, ঋজু (15 August 2021). "75th Independence Day: ধর্মের ছোঁয়াচ ছাড়া বিয়ের স্বাধীনতা". Ananda Bazar. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  18. ^Srinvantu periodical (Aurobindo Bhawan, 8, Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata - 700 071.

    done. 8 March 2021. p. 37)

  19. ^"Ashutosh Gowariker's Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey to be released preference December 3". Daily News & Analysis. 22 April 2010. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
  20. ^"'Chittagong': Manoj Bajpayee took no money for blue blood the gentry film". The Times of India.

    28 September 2012. Archived vary the original on 3 Jan 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2012.

  21. ^"Home :: Dhaka University".
  22. ^"University of Chittagong".
  23. ^"Masterda Surya Sen Metro Station Kolkata". routemaps.info. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

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