Comilla Kumilla
Burdwan Barddhaman
Dacca Dhaka
Chandernagore Chandannagar
Cawnpore Kanpur
Hooghly Hugli
Bombay Mumbai
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED WORKS
Ananta Lal Singh: Agnigarbha Chattogram (Bidyodoy Library Pvt Ltd, 1968)
Ananta Lal Singh: Yuva-Vidroha part I (Sen & Company, Calcutta, 1968)
Ananta Lal Singh: Surjya Sener Swapna o Sadhana (Publisher Baj Kishore Mandal, Vishwavani Prakashini)
Ananta Lal Singh: Keo Boley Biplobi, Keo Boley Dakaat (Publisher Rabin Bal, Shaivya Pustakalay)
Ananta Lal Singh: Mahanayak Surjya Sen Chattogram Biplob Pratham Khanda (Publisher Mayukh Basu, 19 Shyama Charan De Street, Calcutta, 1976)
Ananta Lal Singh: Aami Sheyee May (Publisher Braj Kishore Mandal, Vishwavani Prakashini)
Ananda Prasad Gupta: Chattogram Bidroher Kahini (Published by Girin Chaktaborty, Purabi Publishers Limited, 1948)
Suresh De: Muktir Sopon Jalalabad (Publisher Pratap Kumar Roy, Aaj Kal Publishers Ltd, Calcutta 2001)
Charu Bikash Dutt: Chattogram Astragar Loonthon (Sri Charu Bikash Dutt, Paschim Bongo Pradeshik Rashtriya Samiti)
Malcolm Kennedy: The Diaries of Captain Malcolm Duncan Kennedy, 1917–1946
Ganesh Ghosh: Biplobi Surjya Sen (Biplob Teerth Chattogram Smriti Sansthan Prakashan, Shaheed Surya Sen Bhavan)
Biplobi Neta Ambika Chakraborty (Biplob Teerth Chattogram Smriti Sansthan Prakashan, Shaheed Surya Sen Bhavan)
Biplobi Mahanayak Surjya Sen O Chattogram Yuva-Vidroha 1930–34 (Biplob Teerth Chattogram Smriti Sansthan Prakashan, Shaheed Surya Sen Bhavan)
Chattogram Yuva-Vidroha 1930–34 Aalokmela (Biplob Teerth Chattogram Smriti Sansthan Prakashan, Shaheed Surya Sen Bhavan)
Kalpana Dutt: Chittagong Armoury Raiders – Reminiscences (1979, People’s Publishing House Private Limited)
Hemanta Kumar Sarkar: Revolutionaries of Bengal: Their methods and ideals by Biplobi Ganesh Ghosh (Biplob Teerth Chattogram Smriti Sansthan Prakashan, Shaheed Surya Sen Bhavan)
Manini Chatterjee: Do And Die – The Chittagong Uprising 1930–1934 (Penguin Books India, 1999)
Sona Roy: Youth vs Raj – Bengal 1920 –1925 (Das Gupta & Company Private Ltd)
I. Mallikarjuna Sharma: In Retrospect, Volume 3, East India, Part II, Bengal, Assam and Orissa – Sagas of heroism and sacrifice of Indian Revolutionaries (Mrs I. Balamani for Ravi Sasi Enterprises 2001)
Kuldip Nayar: Without Fear (Harper Collins Publishers, 2007)
Sumit Sarkar: Modern India 1885–1947 (Macmillan India Limited)
S.P.P.K. Naidu: The British Prison system in Andaman
Prithwindra Mukherjee: Bagha Jatin – Life and Times of Jatindranath Mukherjee (National Book Trust, India)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF UNPUBLISHED WORKS
Younie Papers (British Library Archives)
Burnett Papers (British Library Archives)
Tegart Papers (University of Cambridge Archives)
Memoirs of an Indian Policeman by Kathleen Francis Tegart (University of Cambridge Archives)
OFFICIAL RECORDS
Judgment of the Special Tribunal in Chittagong Armoury Raid Case No. 1 of 1930 (The Emperor vs Subodh Chandra Biswas and Others)
Judgment of the Special Tribunal in Chittagong Armoury Raid Supplementary Case (The Emperor vs Ambika Charan Chakrabarty, Hemendu Bikash Dastidar and Saroj Kanti Guha) of 1933
Judgement of the Special Tribunal in the Chittagong Second Supplementary Armoury Raid Case (the Emperor vs Surjya Sen, Tarakeshwar Dastidar and Kalpana Dutt)
Judgement of the Court of the Commissioners appointed under the Criminal Law Ammendment Act, 1926, for the trial of Dinesh Chandra Mazumdar. Sec. 307 IPC, Secs 3,4 and 5 Explosive Substance Act & c.
Judgement. (Emperor vs Dr Narain Roy and Others)
Muzzaffarpur Bomb Outrage, 1906-8 Notes on Outrages, Compiled in 1917, J.C. Nixon, ICS
Alipore Conspiracy Case, 1906-8 Notes on Outrages, Compiled in 1917, J.C. Nixon, ICS
Murder of Narendranath Gossain, 1906-8 Notes on Outrages, Compiled in 1917, J.C. Nixon, ICS
Terrorism in India, A Speech – delivered before the Society, Sir Charles Tegart, CSI, CIE, MVO (The Royal Empire Society – formerly The Royal Colonial Society)
NEWSPAPERS
The Courier Mail, National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news
The Canberra Times, National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news
JOURNALS
Obituary Lt Col NS Simpson, British Medical Journal, December 27, 1930
Notes For Sir Charles Augustus Tegart, Tegart Treeclimbers, www.tegart.com
Obituary Stanley Jackson, http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/15463.html
PEOPLE TELLING THE STORY
Ananda Prasad Gupta
Ram Krishna Biswas
Lady Kathleen Tegart
Sir Charles Tegart
Ananta Lal Singh
Suresh De
John Younie
Lokenath Bal
H.R. Wilkinson
Alexander Burnett
Hem Gupta
Ramani Majumdar
Ambika Charan Chakraborty
Kalpana Dutt
Morsehead
Cullen
Premlata
Kundaprabha
Dorothy Younie
Biren De
Pritilata Waddadar
Haripada Bhattacharya
Kali Kinkar De
Angus Kennedy
Mahendra Choudhury
Brajen Sen
J.R. Johnson
WHO’S WHO
INDIAN CAMP
Abani Mukherji: Part of the Joteen Mookerjee team that was involved in the Indo-German conspiracy during WW I. He went to Japan to establish contacts.
Abdul Ghaffar Khan: The leader of the Pathans; known as Frontier Gandhi; also called Badshah Khan by the Pathans.
Abdul Hakim: Ticket collector at Feni railway station.
Abdul Majid: Police officer who saw the Hindus in the Suluk Bahar House
Abdur Sattar (1917–76): A Muslim youth who sheltered Surjya Sen and the revolutionaries many times in his house during the second phase of the revolution and arranged for shelters in the homes of Muslim families; was arrested in 1934 under the Bengal Ordinance; released in 1937; lived on in Chattogram after partition.
Afsar-ud-din: Was introduced by his classmate Ananta Lal Singh in 1918; he was not keen on having Ganesh Ghosh – a fellow classmate – in the group. Ananta Lal Singh had finally introduced Ganesh Ghosh the next year.
Ahmadur Rehman: A taxi driver whose car was taken by Lokenath Bal’s team and used for the raid on the AFI armoury.
Ajit Biswas: Was introduced by Tarakeshwar Dastidar to Ram Krishna Biswas.
Akhil Chandra Dutt: The barrister from Kumilla who helped Ananta Lal Singh escape to Kolkata after the raid; also was among the team of defence lawyers in the CAR Case.
Amarendra Nandi: A student of Chattogram College; became a sanyasi; joined the revolution reluctantly; became a member of the Sadarghat Club and a part of the Volunteer Vahini; was a part of the European Club attack team on the night of the CAR; was sent from Badulla Pahar along with Diptimedha Choudhury to contact Ananta Lal Singh and Ganesh Ghosh; was shot dead in Chittagong city on 24 April 1930.
Ambika Charan Chakraborty (b. 28 September 1892, d. 5 March 1962): One among the leaders in group formed in 1918; helped carry the AB Railway dacoity loot to Calcutta; consumed spurious cyanide along with Surjya Sen during the Nagarkhana Hill battle and was arrested, charged and acquitted in the Suluk Bahar Arms Case; rearrested under the Bengal Ordinance in 1924 and released in 1928; was one of the five leaders in the CAR; led the telephone bhavan and telegraph exchange wrecking team on the night of 18 April; escaped despite being injured in the
Jalalabad encounter; was arrested in October 1930; sent for trial with Saroj Kanti Guha and Hemendu Bikash Dastidar in the Supplementary CAR Case and was initially sentenced to death on 10 February 1933; sentence was reduced to transportation for life after an appeal and he was sent to the Andamans; released in 1946; joined the Communist Party; died in a road accident in Kolkata.
Amjad Chacha: A Muslim farmer who looked after Ambika Chakraborty when he escaped from the battle site on Jalalabad.
Amulya Acharya (1917–99): Was arrested in 1935 for murdering the police agent Paresh Gupta; was sentenced to hard labour for ten years; settled in Kolkata after independence and partition.
Amulya Biswas: Was incarcerated in Chittagong Jail for revolutionary activities; tried to help Surjya Sen escape from jail by contacting Sailesh Ray.
Amulya Mukherji: Member of the Anushilan Party; helped Lokenath in Kumilla.
Ananda Prasad Gupta (pronounced Anondo in Bengali; called Tun by the family) (b. 1914, d. 8 December 2005): Came from an anglicized Brahmo family; was a student of the Municipal School and Collegiate School, took his matriculation exams before the CAR and found out later that he had passed; came away with Ananta Lal Singh, Ganesh Ghosh and Jibon Ghoshal who were taking the burnt Himangshu Bimal Sen from the police lines to a safe place in the city and as a result was separated from the main group; took part in the Feni encounter; had chickenpox by the time he reached Kolkata; went into hiding in Chandannagar along with Ananta Lal Singh, Ganesh Ghosh and Jibon Ghoshal; was shot in the leg and arrested during the Chandannagar encounter and brought back for trial to Chattogram; sentenced to transportation for life to the Andamans where the inappropriate use of morphine prescribed by the jail doctor turned him into an addict; continued to be in the Andamans through the period in which the Japanese remained in occupation, i.e., 23 March 1942 to 7 October 1945; was released in 1946 when the British regained possession; brought to his cousins’ – George and Biju Patnaik – home in Ananda Bhavan, Cuttack; moved back to the hospital attached with Calcutta Medical College on account of his ill health; interned in Siuri where he met his would-be wife Sunanda; sued the British government for his morphine addiction and won his case; was on his way to Germany for treatment when a medical emergency forced him to disembark in the UK; settled in the UK; passed away on 8 December 2005 in London.
Ananta Chakraborty: On 10 November 1925 he, along with Pramod Ranjan Choudhury and Rakhal De helped Surjya Sen escape from a police raid on the house in Shobhabazaar before they were themselves arrested; attacked and killed Rai Bahadur Bhupen Chatterji during a meeting at Alipore Central Jail; was arrested and tried along with Nadia’s Ananta Hari Mitra, Chattogram’s Sukhendu Dutt, Dhaka’s Birendra Chatterji, Chattogram’s Pramod Ranjan Choudhury and seven others; he and Hari Narayan Chandra were sent to the Burma Jail to serve a life sentence.
Ananta Hari Mitra (b. 1906, hanged September 1926): Belonged to Nadia district; attacked and killed Rai Bahadur Bhupen Chatterji during a meeting at Alipore Central Jail; was arrested and tried along with Chattogram’s Sukhendu Dutt, Dhaka’s Birendra Chatterji, Chattogram’s Pramod Ranjan Choudhury, Ananta Chakraborty and seven others; was hanged along with Pramod Ranjan Choudhury.
Ananta Lal Singh (pronounced Ononto in Bengali) (b. 1901, d. 25 January 1979): Took part in the Paraikora dacoity; took part in an attempt to kill Sir Charles Tegart; led the AB Railway dacoity in December 1923 and escaped from the Nagarkhana battle site; was arrested by Sub-inspector Prafulla Roy but was acquitted; was rearrested on 1 October 1924 under the Bengal Ordinance and held until 1928; was one of the five leaders in the CAR; led the police line attack on the night of 18 April 1930; was separated from the main group on the night of 18 April 1930; took part in the Feni encounter on 22 April 1930; went into hiding in Kolkata and then in Chandannagar; surrendered to the police on 28 June 1930; took part in the Dynamite Conspiracy while in jail; was sentenced to transportation for life and sent to the Andamans; took part in the second hunger strike in the Cellular Jail; repatriated in 1938 and released in 1946; joined the Communist Party; dreamt and plotted towards an united Bengal until the end of his life; was arrested for supposedly masterminding a successive spate of robberies, ostensibly a fund-collection drive for the unification of Bengal; fought his own case; was released from jail, on account of ill health, a few months before his death; he was never convicted.
Anil Bandhu Das (1915–94): Was influenced by his classmates Krishna Choudhury and Ardhendu Guha and guided by Ananta Lal Singh and Ganesh Ghosh; he stole chemicals and money from his father’s pharmaceutical shop and passed them on to the revolutionaries; ran away and went into hiding when the theft was discovered; was arrested in June 1930 in connection with the CAR Case; confessed and then retracted his statement; sentenced to hard labour for three years at Borstal Jail; rearrested immediately afterwards under the Bengal Ordinance; passed his matriculation while in jail.
Anil Kumar De (b. 1914): Joined the second phase of the revolution; went to Kolkata to help Indumati Singh gather materials for manufacturing landmines; helped in the Dynamite Conspiracy; was arrested in 1933 and held without trial until 1936; settled in Kolkata after independence and partition.
Anil Kumar Rakshit (1915–79): Joined Surjya Sen’s group in 1929; was granted bail in CAR Case; was arrested in connection with the Dynamite Conspiracy Case on 3 June 1931 and sentenced to hard labour; rearrested under the Bengal Ordinance as soon as his time was up; spent a total of eight years in jail; joined the Communist Party; settled in Kolkata after independence and partition.
Anuja Sen: Belonged to the Jugantar Party; was killed in the Dalhousie Square bomb blast while trying to assassinate Sir Charles Tegart.
Anukul Mukherji: He helped Ananta Lal Singh buy weapons in Kolkata.
Anurup Sen: A Chattogram man and a senior graduate teacher of Burul High School in 24 Parganas; he was amongst the leaders who formed the party with Surjya Sen, Nagen Sen – Julu-da, Ambika Chakraborty and Charu Bikash Dutta in 1918 when Ananta Lal Singh first joined. He was arrested in the Dakshineshwar Bomb case in 1925 and interned in Moynaguri village where he contracted cholera and died in 1926.
Apurva Sen (Bhola): A Saroatali boy; was introduced by Tarakeshwar Dastidar to Ram Krishna Biswas and the group; was a good singer; lived with his doting dadas and boudis and used the opportunity to donate several gold ornaments to the cause; took part in the Dynamite Conspiracy and worked with Kali Kinkar De and Premlata; succeeded in escaping with Kali Kinkar when the police investigating the Dynamite Conspiracy raided Kali Kinkar’s home; was shot dead in the Dhalghat raid; he was seventeen when he died.
Arati Rakshit (later Singh) (b. 1919): Was introduced to Kalpana Dutt and Ardhendu Guha while still a schoolgirl; at first took charge of the groups seditious materials; later Kalpana left a trunk filled with bottles of acid in her care; her elder brother Anil Rakshit was out on bail in the CAR Case and was involved in the Dynamite Conspiracy and was sentenced to hard labour; she was placed under house arrest in April 1935 and released on 1 October 1935.
Ardhendu Dutt (1906–96): Joined Surjya Sen’s group in 1922; was introduced by Tarakeshwar Dastidar to Ram Krishna Biswas; took care of the weapons from 1924 to 1928 when the party leaders were in jail; introduced his classmate Tarakeshwar Dastidar to Ananta Lal Singh; had taken Ananta Lal Singh to meet Surjya Sen when his wife had died; did not take part in the CAR or the Battle of Jalalabad as he had been reserved for the second phase of the revolution; was employed as the residential tutor of Sukhendu Bikash Dastidar’s younger brother; helped the absconders in the second phase; was arrested in September 1930 under the Bengal Ordinance for eight years; his parents were arrested and sentenced to hard labour in 1934 for sheltering absconders; settled in independent India.
Ardhendu Guha (Shishu) (b. 1912 ): Son of a Congressman; was introduced by Ananta Lal Singh to Surjya Sen in 1929; was in the pamphlets distribution team in the CAR; arrived at Ganesh Ghosh’s shop to join up with the army on the night of 18 April
but finding no one there returned home; was arrested within a couple of hours and taken to jail; granted bail in the CAR Case; led the Dynamite Conspiracy and was arrested in connection with it on 4 June 1931; was sentenced to hard labour and released in 1938; opened a photography studio in Chattogram with the help of Sarat Chandra Bose – his studio displayed the photographs of the revolutionaries on the walls; was rearrested at the start of World War II under the Defence of India Act and released in 1941; after Ananta Lal Singh’s and Ganesh Ghosh’s release in 1946, Ardhendu’s wife Nivedita carried two army revolvers for them to Kolkata; after partition Ardhendu Guha settled in Kolkata and opened a photography studio in College Street. It became a meeting point for Surjya Sen’s group; Ganesh Ghosh was made president and the Biplob Teerth Chattogram Smriti Sanstha was founded in 1970 and Ardhendu Guha became its secretary; in 1987 they built the Surya Sen Bhavan.
Ardhendu Shekhar Dastidar: Homeopathy student and a devotee of Shri Ramkrishna; lived at the Congress office with Surjya Sen; was the younger brother of Purnendu Dastidar; was burnt along with Tarakeshwar Dastidar while making explosives; was mortally injured in the Battle of Jalalabad and was removed to hospital where he was interrogated before he passed away.
Arun Dastidar (Tulu) (1915–2000): The son of a Port Trust officer and not in the police eye; helped in the second phase of the revolution; hid a trunk of acid and gunpowder in his house; carried out research on the areas to be mined; was arrested in May 1932 and held without trial for four years; took part in the Bharat Chhoro Aandolan in 1942; passed away in 2000.
Ashu Ranjan De (b. 1914): Was introduced by Sukhendu Bikash Dutt in 1929; lived on the banks of the Askar Khan Dighi and helped in the Dynamite Conspiracy; was arrested in June 1931; was acquitted but made to leave Chattogram; arrested from Kolkata on 7 December 1933 under the Bengal Ordinance and moved between jails until he was finally interned in his own home on the banks of Askar Khan Dighi in 1937; released in 1938; settled in independent India.
Ashutosh Bhattacharya: Brother of Bhabatosh Bhattacharya; was set free in the CAR Case because of lack of evidence.
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