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Badal Gupta, a Bengali revolutionary in British India
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Badal Gupta, a Bengali revolutionary in British India

Badal Gupta (1912-1930) was a Bengali Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. The Bengali people are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group from South Asia with a history going back more than two millennia. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... The Bengali people are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group from South Asia with a history going back more than two millennia. ...

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Early activities

Badal Gupta was born Sudhir Gupta in the village Purba Shimulia (West Shimulia) in the Vikrampur region of Dhaka District, now in Bangladesh [1]. Badal was greatly inspired towards patriotism by Nikunja Sen, a teacher of the Banaripara School of Vikrampur.Badal joined the Bengal Volunteers (BV) as a member. Dhaka District is a district located in central Bangladesh. ...


The battle at Writers' Building

Bengal Volunteers targetted Col NS Simpson,The Inspector General of Prisons, who was infamous for the brutal oppression on the prisoners in the jails. The revolutionaries decided not only to murder him, but also to strike a terror in the British official circles by launching an attack on the Secretariat Building - the Writers' Building in the Dalhousie square in Kolkata. Writers Building is the secretariat of West Bengal. ... Kolkata (Bangla: কলকাতা, Hindi: कोलकता, alternate English Calcutta), is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal and was capital of British India until 1912. ...


On 8 December 1930, Badal along with Dinesh chandra Gupta and Benoy, dressed in European costume, entered the Writers' Building and shot dead Simpson. Writers Building is the secretariat of West Bengal. ...


British police started firing.What ensued was a brief gunfight between the 3 young revolutionaries and the police.Some other officers like Twynam, Prentice and Nelson suffered injuries during the shooting.


Soon police overpowered them.However, the three did not wish to be arrested.Badal took Potassium cyanide, while Benoy and Dinesh shot themselves with their own revolvers.Badal died on the spot. Potassium cyanide or KCN is the potassium salt of hydrogen cyanide or hydrocyanic acid. ... Revolver is also a rock-and-roll album by The Beatles. ...


Significance

The martyrdome and self-sacrifice of Benoy,Badal and Dinesh inspired further revolutionary activities in Bengal,in particular and India,in general. Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali: বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla, is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ...


After independence, the dalsousie square was named B.B.D. Bagh - after the Benoy-Badal-Dinesh trio.


References

  1. Article on Badal Gupta, by Sambaru Chandra Mohanta, Banglapedia

Banglapedia is a National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. ...

Bibliography

  • Hemendranath Dasgupta, Bharater Biplab Kahini, II & III, Calcutta, 1948;
  • RC Mazumder, History of the Freedom Movement in India, III, Calcutta 1963;
  • Ganganarayan Chandra, Abismaraniya, Calcutta, 1966.


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