Manoranjan Sengupta

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Manoranjan Sengupta
Indian Independence Movement

Manoranjan Sengupta (1898 – 3 December 1915) was a revolutionary and a participant in the Indian independence movement.[1] He was a colleague of revolutionary Purnachandra Das and a member of the Madaripur Samiti, a secret revolutionary organization led by Purnachandra; a secret unit of Jugantar. He was arrested as an accused in the first Faridpur conspiracy case in December 1913 and spent five months in jail. [2] He attached with senior Bengali revolutionary Jatindranath Mukherjee alias Bagha Jatin in Christmas Day Plot for procuring arms from Germany, Japan, America. He was involved in the collection of arms and ammunition from the German ship "Maverick" off the coast of Baleshwar in Orissa on September 1915 under the leadership of the revolutionary Bagha Jatin.

Early life

Sengupta was born in September 1898 in the village of Khairbhanga under

Jugantar party under the leadership of Bagha Jatin. In 1913. He was imprisoned on charges of Faridpur Conspiracy Case.[citation needed] After their release from prison, they shot and killed Nirad Haldar, a notorious intelligence officer, in 1915. He was involved in the collection of arms and ammunition from the German ship "Maverick" off the coast of Baleshwar in Orissa
in September 1915.

Death

Late at night on 6 September 1915,

Nirendranath Dasgupta surrendered. Later Manoranjan and Nirendranath were sentenced to death on 16 October 1915. Both of them were hanged on 3 December 1915. Jyotish Chandra Pal also did not live long. While serving his sentence in Andaman Cellular Jail
, he went insane under the brutal torture of the police. Jyotish died on 4 December 1924 at Behrampur Ashram.

References

  1. ^ GHOSH, KALI CHARAN (1960). THE ROLL OF HONOUR. VIDYA BHARATI,CALCUTTA.
  2. ISBN 9781351363624
    . Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Bagha Jatin: The unsung hero of Indian independence struggle". www.dailyo.in. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Bagha Jatin (1879–1915) | Great Freedom Fighter". Jaborejob. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Bangla turns to Jatin in secularism battle". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  6. ^ "'We Shall Die to Awaken The Nation': Bagha Jatin, Whose Bravery Shook the British Raj!". The Better India. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
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