Barindra Kumar Ghosh

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Barindra Kumar Ghosh
Barindra Kumar Ghosh
Born(1880-07-05)5 July 1880
Croydon, United Kingdom[1]
Died18 April 1959(1959-04-18) (aged 79)
Kolkata, India
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Revolutionary, journalist
RelativesSri Aurobindo (brother)
Manmohan Ghose (brother)
Anushilan Samiti
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Barindra Kumar Ghosh or Barindra Ghosh, or, popularly, Barin Ghosh (5 July 1880 – 18 April 1959) was an Indian revolutionary and journalist. He was one of the founding members of Jugantar Bengali weekly, a revolutionary outfit in Bengal. Barindra Ghosh was a younger brother of Sri Aurobindo.[2]

Early life

Barindra Ghosh was born at

Hooghly District of present-day West Bengal.[3]
His father, Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, was a physician and district surgeon. His mother Swarnalata was the daughter of the
Dhaka University
. He also had an elder sister named Sarojini Ghosh.

Barindranath attended school in

Baroda
. During this time, (late 19th century – early 20th century) Barin was influenced by Aurobindo and drawn towards the revolutionary movement.

Revolutionary activities

Main article: Anushilan Samiti

Barin came back to

Jatindranath Banerjee. In 1906, he started publishing Jugantar, a Bengali weekly and a revolutionary organization named Jugantar soon followed. Jugantar was formed from the inner circle of Anushilan Samiti
and it started preparation for armed militancy activities to oust British from Indian soil.

Barin and Jatindranath Mukherjee alias Bagha Jatin were instrumental in the recruitment of many young revolutionaries from across Bengal. The revolutionaries formed the Maniktala group in Maniktala, Kolkata. It was a secret place where they started manufacturing bombs and collected arms and ammunition.

Following the attempted killing of Kingsford by two revolutionaries

Alipore Bomb Case) initially sentenced Aurobindo Ghosh, Barin Ghosh and Ullaskar Datta to death. However, the sentence was reduced to life imprisonment, by Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das and Barin was deported to the Cellular Jail in Andaman in 1909 along with other convicts.[4] In the Cellular Jail, Barin Ghosh was locked up beside Vinayak Damodar Savarkar & he successfully managed to flee Cellular Jail in 1915.[5] But British caught Barin Ghosh again from Puri after Balasore
Battle with Bagha Jatin.

Release and later activities

Barin Ghosh successfully escaped from

Sadhana. Barin returned to Kolkata in 1929 and again took up journalism. In 1933 he started an English weekly, The Dawn of India. He was associated with the newspaper The Statesman, and in 1950, he became the editor of the Bengali Dainik Basumati. Around this time he got married. He died on 18 April 1959.[7]

Works

The following are books by Barindra Ghosh:

Other books

  • Barindrakumar Ghosh, Pather Ingit, Calcutta, 1337 (
    Bengali year
    ).
  • Upendra Nath Bandyopadhyaya, Nirbasiter Atmakatha, Calcutta, 1352 (Bengali year).
  • RC Majumdar, History of the Freedom Movement in India, II, Calcutta, 1963.

References

  1. ^ Dasgupta, Sanjukta. "A horrendous tale". www.thestatesman.com. The Statesman. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  2. ^ Service, Statesman News (21 December 2023). "A chronicle of deportation and incarceration". The Statesman. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  3. ^ Bandyopadhyay, Amritalal, Rishi Aurobindo, 1964, Biswas Publishing House, p. 6
  4. ISSN 0971-751X
    . Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  5. ^ "নারকেল পিষে রোজ ২৫ কেজি তেল বানাতে হত". www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  6. ^ Ghose, Barindra Kumar (1922). The tale of my exile - twelve years in Andamans. Pondicherry: Arya Publications.
  7. ^ "বারীন্দ্রকুমার ঘোষ". onushilon.org. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  8. ^ সংকলক, ◄ ঘবারীন্দ্রকুমার ঘোষ জীবনী উপাত্ত. "বারীন্দ্রকুমার ঘোষ - উইকিসংকলন একটি মুক্ত পাঠাগার". bn.wikisource.org (in Bengali). Retrieved 1 March 2024.

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