Women in Freedom Struggle Were Not Behind Men in Any Way

Dr Madhurima Sen's new book 'Women in the War of Freedom Unveiled: Bengal, 1919-1947' brings women fighters to life through their photographs sourced from the police and Intelligence Bureau records.

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December 8, 1930

The 3 young men, entered Writers Building dressed in Western clothing carrying loaded revolvers, and on reaching Simpson, they fired point blank, at him as he fell to the ground dead.

A shootout soon filled between the 3 young men and other British officers, in which 3 officers Twynam, Prentice and Nelson suffered injuries. Though the trio were overpowered, they refused to surrender Badal took cyanide and died instantly.

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Dinesh Gupta was born on December 6, 1911 in Josholong, joined the Bengal Volunteers while studying in Dhaka, and for sometime in Midnapore he trained other revolutionaries in bomb making and usage of arms.

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Badal Gupta was born in a small village near Bikrampur( Bangladesh) and was influenced by his paternal uncle's Dharani Nath Gupta and Nagendra Nath Gupta who were involved in the Alipore bomb case. Joined the Bengal Volunteers in 1928.

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Benoy Krishna Basu born on September 11, 1908 in a small village in Murshiganj dt( now in Bangladesh). His father Rajmohan Basu was an engineer, during his matriculation in Dhaka he joined the Mukti Sangha inspired by another revolutionary Hemchandra Ghosh.

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Though not as well known as Jugantar or Anushilan, Bengal Volunteers played an equally significant role in the revolutionary movement. In the early 1930s the group launched Operation Freedom to protest against police repression.

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During the freedom struggle, the building was witness to one of the more high profile assasinations of a senior British official, by the three young men, all of whom belonged to the Bengal Volunteers Group., one of the underground revolutionary groups in Bengal founded by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose himself, during the 1928 Kolkata session and later worked under guidance of Major Satya Gupta.

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