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Jugantar or Yugantar (nearest English word "epoch-making") was one of the secret revolutionary organisations operating in Bengal for Indian independence.The association,like Anushilan Samiti operated in the guise of suburban fitness club. Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali: বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla (Bengali), is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ... The Indian independence movement was a series of steps taken in the Indian subcontinent for independence from British colonial rule, beginning with the Rebellion of 1857. ... Anushilan Samiti was one of the secret revolutionary organisations operating in Bengal in the first quarter of the 20th century. ...

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Notable members

  • Aurobindo Ghosh
  • Barin Ghosh
  • Raja Subodh Mallik
  • Khudiram Bose
  • Prafulla Chaki
  • Bagha Jatin
  • Amarendra Chatterjee (1880-1957)
  • Ambika Chakrobarty (1891-1962)
  • Arun Chandra Guha (b.1892)
  • Bipin Behari Ganguli (1887-1954)
  • Bhupendra Kumar Datta (b. 1894)
  • Dinesh Chandra Majumdar (1907-1934)
  • Ganesh Ghosh (b. 1900 )
  • Jadu Gopal Mukherjee (b.1866)
  • Jiban Lal Chattopadhyay (1889-1970)
  • Jyotish Chandra Ghose (1887-1970)
  • Kalpana Datta Joshi (b.1913)
  • Manoranjan Gupta (b.1890)
  • Pritilata Waddedar (1911-1932)
  • Tarakeswar Dastidar
  • Purna Chandra Das (1889-1956)
  • Santosh Kumar Mitra (1901-1931)
  • Santi Ghose Das ( b.1916)
  • Suniti Chaudhuri Ghosh (b.1917)
  • Surendra Mohan Ghosh alias Madhu Ghosh(1893 b)
  • Upendra Nath Bandopadhyay (1879-1950)
  • Binod Bihari Chaudhury

... It was this hero who threw the first bomb on the British who were crushing India. ... Bagha Jatin December 7, 1879–September 10, 1915 was a firebrand Indian revolutionary during Indias freedom struggle against the British rule, and one of the most valiant martyrs. ... Pritilata Waddedar, Bengali Revolutionary Pritilata Waddedar was a anti-British revolutionary in Bangladesh (then part of Province of Bengal in pre-indepdence India). ...

The beginning

This extremist outfit was established by Aurobindo Ghosh,his brother Barin Ghosh and Raja Subodh Mallik.Barin Ghosh was the main extremixt leader.Alongwith 21 followers,he started to collect arms and explosives and manufactured bombs.The head quarters of Jugantar was located at 93/a Baubazar Street,Kolkata. ... 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. ...


Activities

Some senior members of the group were sent abroad for political and military training. One of them, Hemchandra Qanungo obtained the training in Paris. After returning to Kolkata, he set up a combined religious school and bomb factory at a garden house in Maniktala suburb of Calcutta.However, the attempted murder of Kingsford, the-then district Judge of Muzaffarpur by Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki (30 April 1908) initiated police investigation that led to the arrest of many of the revolutioaries. Muzaffarpur is an administrative district in the state of Bihar in India. ... It was this hero who threw the first bomb on the British who were crushing India. ...


The German Plot

During the World War 1 the Jugantar Party arranged importation of German arms and ammunitions (notably the 32 bore German automatic pistols) via Manabendra Nath Roy -a Bolshevik revolutionary who was residing in Berlin.This was nicknamed as the German Plot.After the World War 1, the Soviet Government supplied funds for the purpose of instigating revolution in India.To raise fund,the Jugantar party organized a series of dacoities which came to be known as Taxicab dacoities and Boat dacoities, in order to procure funds to prepare the ground for working out the Indo-German Conspiracy. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Categories: Stub | Indian politicians | 1887 births | 1954 deaths ... Leaders of the Bolshevik Party and the Communist International, a painting by Malcolm McAllister on the Pathfinder Mural in New York City and on the cover of the book Lenin’s Final Fight published by Pathfinder. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Soviet redirects here. ...


The first of the Taxicab dacoities took place at Garden Reach,Kolkata on February 12, 1915, by a group of armed revolutionaries under the leadership of Narendra Bhattacharya under the direct supervision of Jatinindranath Mukherjee. Similar dacoities were organized on different occasions and in various parts of Calcutta. Dacoities were followed by political murders in which the victims were mostly zealous police officers investigating into the cases, and persons who helped the police. 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. ... Bagha Jatin December 7, 1879–September 10, 1915 was a firebrand Indian revolutionary during Indias freedom struggle against the British rule, and one of the most valiant martyrs. ...


Failure of the German plot

Naren Bhattacharya (alias M.N. Roy) and Phani Chakravarti (alias Pyne) had gone abroad as emissaries of Jugantar. The Berlin committee had decided that the German arms were to be landed at two or three places like Hatia on Chittagong coast, Raimangal in the Sunderbans and Balasore in Orissa. The plan was to organize a guerrilla force to start an uprising in the country which would have to be backed by a mutiny among the Indian Armed Force. Unfortunately the whole plot leaked out through the Czech revolutionaries who were in touch with their counterparts in U.S.A. [citation needed], and as soon as the information reached the British authorities, they alerted the police, particularly in the delta region of the Ganges, and sealed all the sea approaches on the eastern coast from Noakhali-Chittagong side to Orissa.Sramajibi Samabaya and Harry & Sons of Calcutta, the two business concerns which were taking active part in the Indo-German Conspiracy were searched. Police came to knew that Bagha Jatin was in Balasore waiting for German arms to land.Police went on to find our the hiding places of Bagha Jatin and associates and after a gun-fight the revolutionaries were either killed or arrested.The German plot thus failed. Categories: Stub | Indian politicians | 1887 births | 1954 deaths ... Chittagong (Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম, Chaá¹­á¹­agrām) is the major sea-port and second largest city of Bangladesh. ... Where the land meets the sea at the southern tip of West Bengal lies the Indian Sunderbans, a stretch of impenetrable mangrove forest of great size and bio-diversity. ... Balasore is a launch station for sounding rockets on the east coast of India in Orissa state at 21°18 N and 86°36 E. Balasore has been in use since 1989, but unlike Sriharikota, it is not used for launching satellites. ... Orissa (2001 provisional pop. ... Distinguish from the type of ape called a gorilla. ... Early morning on the Ganges The River Ganges (Ganga in Indian languages) (Devanagiri गंगा) is a major river in northern India. ... Noakhali is a district in South-eastern Bangladesh. ... Chittagong (Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম, Chaá¹­á¹­agrām) is the major sea-port and second largest city of Bangladesh. ... Bagha Jatin December 7, 1879–September 10, 1915 was a firebrand Indian revolutionary during Indias freedom struggle against the British rule, and one of the most valiant martyrs. ... Balasore is a launch station for sounding rockets on the east coast of India in Orissa state at 21°18 N and 86°36 E. Balasore has been in use since 1989, but unlike Sriharikota, it is not used for launching satellites. ...


After the First World War

The Anushilan Samiti suffered grievous blows with the arrest of some of the leadrers.In effect, the revolutinary activities were divided into 2 groups.The dhaka Anushilan Samiti in Eastern Bengal and the Jugantar in Western Bengal. Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali: বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla (Bengali), is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ... Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali: বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla (Bengali), is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ...


In the 1920s,Jugantar Party started raiding post offices,railway cash offices etc. in Kolkata and neighbourhood area to build up funds.They started propaganda with leaflets known as the 'Red Bengal' leaflets in 1923. 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. ...


Cooperation with Congress

The Jugantar group supported Gandhi during the Non-Cooperation Movement. In the 1920s, many members of Jugantar party also took high positions in Bengal's district and Provincial Congress Committees, and even in the national committees. Bhupati Majumder and Monoranjan Gupta held the offices of the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee, respectively. Amarendra Chatterjee, Upendranath Banerjee, Bipin Behari Ganguli and Satyendra Chandra Mitra were elected to the All India Congress Committee from Bengal. Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party or Congress (I), abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. ... Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी, Gujarati મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી), called Mahatma Gandhi, was the charismatic leader who brought the cause of Indias independence from British colonial rule to world attention. ... The Non-Cooperation Movement is a collection of techniques used by a subjugated population to achieve freedom from their oppressors. ... Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali: বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla (Bengali), is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ... Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party or Congress (I), abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. ...


Later activities

In 1930s, Jugantar group prepared programmes for further terrorism.The programmes included murder of Europeans in hotels, clubs, and cinemas; burning of the Dum-Dum aerodrome; Destroying the electricity ,gas and petrol supplies of Kolkata , disorganisation of tram services in Calcutta by cutting overhead wires; destruction of the communication system by destroying telegraph lines, railway tracks etc. The outcome of such programmes culminated in several terrorist attcks.The Chittagong armoury raid bu Surya Sen and his followers deserves special mention in this regard. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (IATA: CCU, ICAO: VECC) is an airport located in Dum Dum, West Bengal, India, near Kolkata (Calcutta). ... 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. ... Indian Postage stamp on Surya Sen Surya Sen, a teacher by profession, was the chief architect of anti-British movement in Chittagong. ...


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Jugantar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1487 words)
Jugantar or Yugantar (Bangla: যুগান্তর) (English meaning New Era or more litterally an Epoch in Transition) was one of the two main secret revolutionary trends operating in Bengal for Indian independence.This association, like Anushilan Samiti started in the guise of suburban fitness club.
Several Jugantar members were arrested, hanged, or deported for life to the Cellular Jail in Andaman.
Anushilan Samiti and Jugantar were brought close by the joint leadership of Narendra Mohan Sen of Anushilan, represented by Rabindra Mohan Sen and Jadugopal Mukherjee of Jugantar, represented by Bhupendra Kumar Datta.
Anushilan Samiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1368 words)
The result of the trial was divisions in the Anushilan Samiti.Two main groups that remained were the Jugantar itself and the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti, in the western and the eastern parts of the Bengal, respectively.
The younger leaders of the revolutionaries belonging to the Anushilan as well as to the Jugantar were frustrated by the failure of the attempted merger.
On 9 September 1938, the Jugantar members issued a statement not to reorganise their separate party headquarters and to avow full allegiance to the Congress.
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