Sarat Chandra Bose

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Sarat Chandra Bose
Indian independence activist
OfficePresident of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
Spouse
Bivabati Devi
​
(m. 1909)​
Parents
  • Prabhavati Dutt (mother)
RelativesSubhas Chandra Bose (brother)

Sarat Chandra Bose (6 September 1889 – 20 February 1950) was an Indian

independence activist
.

Early life

He was born to

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and distinguished cardiologist Dr. Sunil Chandra Bose. Sarat had two elder sisters. They were Pramilabala Mitra and Saralabala Dey. He had an elder brother, Satish Chandra Bose (1887 — 1948). He had six younger brothers, namely: Suresh Chandra Bose (1891 — 1972), Sudhir Chandra Bose (1892 — 10 February 1950), Dr. Sunil Chandra Bose (1894 — 17 November 1953), Subhas Chandra Bose
(23 January 1897 — 18 August 1945), Shailesh Chandra Bose (1904 — 1984) and Santosh Chandra Bose. He had four younger sisters, they were Tarubala Roy, Malina Dutta, Pratibha Mitra, and Kanaklata Mitra.

Sarat Bose studied in

Presidency College, Scottish Church College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and then went to England in 1911 to become a barrister. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. He began a successful legal practice upon his return to India, but later abandoned it to join the Indian independence movement.[3]

Political career

In 1936, Bose became the President of the Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, and served as a member of the

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
, and presided over by the Viceroy of India.

Bengal partition and later life

However, Bose resigned from the AICC in disagreement over the

North-East with the Bengali Muslim League leaders Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Abul Hashim. Muhammad Ali Jinnah (President of the Muslim League, who became Pakistan's founding father) supported it. Mahatma Gandhi also supported it. The Indian National Congress and the Hindu members of Indian Legislative Council from Bengal opposed it.[4][5][6] After India's independence, Bose led his brother's Forward Bloc
and formed the Socialist Republican Party, advocating a socialist system for Bengal and India. He died on 20 February 1950, in Calcutta when he was 60 years old.

Family

Sarat Bose married Bivabati Dey, the daughter of Akshoy Kumar Dey and Subala Dey, in 1909. The couple had eight children. Their children included Ashoke Nath Bose,[7] a Doctorate in Chemistry from Germany and eminent engineer; Amiya Nath Bose who participated in the Quit India Movement, became a Member of Parliament, and was also the Indian ambassador to Burma; Sisir Kumar Bose,[8] who became a pediatrician and Member of Legislative Assembly, and Subrata Bose, who was an electrical engineer and also a Member of Parliament. His youngest daughter, Prof. Chitra Ghosh, is a distinguished academician, a social scientist, and also a member of the Parliament. His elder grandson, Sugata Bose, is a Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University and a former member of the Lok Sabha. His younger grandson, Sumantra Bose, is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[9]

Statue of Sharat Chandra Bose in Kolkata

Honours

A statue of Sarat Chandra Bose is situated beside Calcutta High Court.

In January 2014, Sarat Chandra Bose Memorial Lecture was instituted, and the maiden lecture was delivered by historian of International fame Leonard A. Gordon - who has penned a joint biography of Sarat and his younger brother Subhas, titled Brothers Against The Raj.[10]

References

  1. ^ Subhash Chandra Bose: A Biography, Chattopadhyaya, Gautam, National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi, 1997, p. 1
  2. ^ An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography And Collected Letters 1897-1921, Subhas Chandra Bose, Asia Publishing House, London, 1965, p. 1
  3. ^ .winentrance.com/general_knowledge/arat-chandra-bose.html
  4. ^ R. C. Majumdar (1943). History of Bengal. University of Dacca.
  5. ISBN 9781843311492
    .
  6. ^ "Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy : His Life". thedailynewnation.com. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  7. ^ "How Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose escaped Kolkata this day 1941". Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  8. ISBN 978-93-83098-50-7
  9. ^ Science, London School of Economics and Political. "People". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  10. ^ "History failed to recognize Sarat Chandra Bose: Leonard Gordon". IANS. Biharprabha News. Retrieved 23 January 2014.

External links

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