Lala Lajpat Rai: A senior Congress leader who died as a result of police brutality.
Lecturer: See Mani Dutt.
Lokenath Bal (called Shona-bhai by his younger brothers and sisters, Lokenath-da or Loka-da by his young friends) (b. 8 March 1908, d. 1964): Was the Students Union secretary; led the AFI raid team on 18 April 1930; was battle commander at Jalalabad, led his team out of the hills and met up with Surjya Sen’s team; was arrested during the Chandannagar encounter; was awarded transportation for life and sent to the Andamans; released in 1946; joined the Radical Democratic Party and later the Congress party; served as deputy commissioner of the Calcutta Corporation; died suddenly of a heart attack. Madhusudan Dutt: Kept the party alive during the time the leaders were arrested under the 1924 Bengal Ordinance; worked as a contractor in Jamshedpur and sent his savings to the party; returned to Chattogram a few days before the raid and took part in the CAR; died at Jalalabad at the age of twenty-four.
Madhusudan Guha (Madhu): Was arrested in connection with the CAR case and released on bail; helped in the Dynamite Conspiracy; acquitted for lack of evidence.
Mahendra Choudhury (code name Zamindar, known to Kundaprabha as Mani-da) (1912–88): Was a class 9 student at the Chattogram Municipal High School when he joined Surjya Sen’s group in 1929; had woken Suresh De by throwing roshogollas and then climbing up to his window; took part in the armoury raid; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; led the intelligence department of the revolutionaries; brought back the news of Nirmal Sen’s death at Dhalghat; took part in the first failed attempt on the AB Railway Institute, Pahartali; took part in the second attempt on the AB Railway Institute, Pahartali, led by Pritilata Waddadar; tried to have Special Superintendent Nalini Majumdar killed but the plan did not work out; was arrested in December 1933 and detained without trial until 1937; joined the Congress party; settled in Kolkata after independence and partition.
Mahendra Lal Biswas: Sixty-year-old Mahendra Lal had offered Surjya Sen and the revolutionaries his home as a secure shelter after they returned from the Battle of Jalalabad; was arrested in 1935; had protested against the torture in the jail and died within a few days.
Maklas Rehman: Worked at the AB Railway workshop; had been Ananta Lal Singh’s neighbour nearly ten years ago and had seen him at AB Railway dacoity site.
Makleshwar Rahman: Was waiting to provide dinner for the revolutionaries at his restaurant on the night of the armoury raid.
Malin Bikash Ghose: Took part in the CAR and in the Battle of Jalalabad; was arrested but was set free after the trial due to lack of evidence.
Manilal Dutt (Mani Dutt, code name Lecturer) (1915–92): Was introduced by Tarakeshwar Dastidar and Ram Krishna Biswas after the CAR; lived as a residential tutor in Dhalghat and took Surjya Sen and Pritilata from the Dhalghat encounter site to the shelter in Jeshtapur village; followed Surjya Sen’s instructions and went into hiding; met Kalpana Dutt in Pritilata’s house; helped Kalpana escape from the Gairala encounter by hiding amongst a stack of rice sheaves for a day before making it to safety; was involved in the plot to kill District Magistrate H.S. Hands; was arrested in 1933 for being in possession of a revolver and sentenced to hard labour at the Andamans; was released in 1945; settled in Kolkata after independence and partition.
Manindra Lal Guha (1909–77): Was a student of BA at Chattogram College; took part in wrecking the Telephone Exchange according to Manini Chatterjee in Do And Die but according to Chattogram Yuva-Vidroha 1930–34 Aalokmela he had taken part in the police line attack; absconded on the 19 April 1930 when he was sent back from the hills to contact Ananta Lal Singh and Ganesh Ghosh; was arrested on 25 December 1931 under the Bengal Ordinance and detained until 1938; he settled in Chattogram which became a part of East Pakistan and later Bangladesh.
Manindra Majumdar (b. 1904): Was Surjya Sen’s deputy in Sripur and Haola; he was not amongst the ones that the police had an eye on; was a first-ranker whom Surjya Sen had reserved for the second phase; his home on the banks of the Karnaphuli was surrounded by coconut and betel nut palms and it was converted into a secret meeting place; during the time Ardhendu Guha was out on bail and working on the Dynamite Conspiracy, he would meet Surjya Sen at Manindra Majumdar’s home; the garden served as the studio in which revolutionaries due to leave for their last action were photographed; was a skilled sailor, helped Surjya Sen and Nirmal-da cross the Karnaphuli by night for the secret meetings and was mentioned as the one who would wait with the sampan during the proposed jail break; Ananta Lal Singh and Ganesh Ghosh’s plan to kill Mr Craig had been discussed in this shelter and Ram Krishna Biswas and Kalipada Chakraborty detailed; arrested in May 1931 and held without trial until 1938; settled in independent India.
Maulvi Abdulla: a Congress party worker who accompanied Ananta Lal Singh to Kolkata.
Maulvi Makleshwar Rehman: The Kumilla zila Congress secretary who helped Ananta Lal Singh escape to Kolkata.
Mihir Bose: Lent his father’s rifle for the CAR but did not take part himself.
Mir Ahmad Ali (1915–73): Joined Surjya Sen’s group while still a schoolboy and introduced several Muslim boys to the group; sheltered Surjya Sen and Nirmal-da in his own home; was extremely keen on taking part in the action but he did not get the opportunity; was arrested in November 1933 but his mother continued to shelter revolutionaries; was released in 1938; settled in Kolkata after independence and partition.
Mona: See Monoranjan Sen.
Monorama: Mother of Jyotsna, Deboprasad, Ananda Prasad and Jyoti Prasad, wife of Jogendramohan Gupta (called Rama by her husband).
Monoranjan Dasgupta (called Khoka-da by Kalpana Dutt): Joined Tarakeshwar Dastidar, Kalpana Dutt and Sudhindra Dasgupta at Gohira shelter the night before the encounter; was killed in the dawn encounter on 19 May 1933.
Monoranjan De: Arranged for the Gohira shelter and led the way; sounded the warning that the house had been surrounded; arrested on the day of the Gohira encounter and sentenced to four years of hard labour.
Monoranjan Rai (Kebla-da); (1909–92): Was introduced by Tarakeshwar Dastidar in 1926; went into hiding in Kolkata after the CAR; introduced Pritilata Waddadar and Kalpana Dutt to Surjya Sen; took bombs across to Surjya Sen and helped in the Dynamite Conspiracy; was arrested in November 1930 and held without trial for seven years; joined the Communist Party and took part in the Shramik Aandolan; was elected thrice to the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha.
Monoranjan Sen (Mona): First-year intermediate student of Chattogram College; was part of the European Club attack team on the night of the armoury raid; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; preferred to commit suicide instead of surrendering in the Kalarpol encounter; his father, Rajan Sen, an elderly man and a pleader of Chattogram court was kicked to death by Sergeant Kelly in the retaliation that followed the assassination of Khan Bahadur Ahsanulla.
Motilal Kanungo (Moti): Ananda Prasad Gupta’s classmate; took part in the CAR; died in the Battle of Jalalabad.
Motilal Nehru: A Congressman and the father of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Mr Peters: A European who sold weapons to Ananta Lal Singh.
Mrinalini Sen (b. 1917): Sister of Rajat Sen; lived with her parents in the Firingee Bazaar area; joined the Volunteer Vahini for girls in 1929 during the Congress Assembly in Chattogram; she and her mother, Binodini Sen, helped Kalpana Dutt and Ardhendu Guha during the Dynamite Conspiracy; kept guard with her mother when meetings were conducted in their house; was placed under house arrest in 1932; settled in Kolkata with her parents after independence and partition.
Nagendranath Sen (Nagen Sen; Julu-da): Served with the 49 Bengal Regiment in the First World War; was posted to Mesopotamia; amongst the first-rank leaders in 1918; taught the revolutionists the use of weapons; led the Paraikora dacoity along with Nirmal Sen; attempted to murder Tegart twice; was arrested on 27 March 1925 under the Bengal Ordinance, was released in 1928; married in 1928 and moved away from the revolution; helped Ananta Lal Singh hide in Kolkata after the CAR and the Feni e
ncounter; was arrested under the Ordinance and remained in jail from 26 September 1930 to 1938.
Nand Lal Singh (modified later to Sinha) (b. 7 February 1902, d. 27 July 1987): Son of Golab Singh and Rajkumari Devi; Ananta Lal Singh’s older brother and Indumati Singh’s younger brother; joined Surjya Sen’s group in 1918; joined the Pahartali Railway Workshop as an apprentice and joined in the strike demanding better wages and benefits for the workers; married in 1925; stopped work as an active revolutionary but continued to help his brother and supported the movement; was arrested along with his father after the CAR; received hard labour of two years for his part in the CAR; was rearrested under the Bengal Ordinance as soon as his term was over and was released in 1935; harassed by the government after the disappearance of Neta-ji Subhas Chandra Bose in 1941; was awarded the Tamrapatra in recognition of services in the cause for freedom in 1975.
Narain Chandra Roy (Doctor): Looked after Ananta Lal Singh in Chandannagar; manufactured bombs used in Dalhousie Square bomb blast which targeted Sir Charles Tegart; sentenced to transportation for life to the Andamans; took with him trunks full of books to educate the youngsters serving their time in the Andamans.
Narayan Sen (Anath Rai) (1912–56): Was a part of the police line attack team; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; went into hiding for the next eighteen years living in disguise under the noses of the police in Kolkata.
Naren Das: Was in the pamphlet distribution team after Pritilata successfully carried out the Pahartali Club raid.
Naren Dutt: Kamini Dutt’s youngest brother and the owner of Bengal Immunity Ltd.
Narendranath Bhattacharya (C. Martin, M.N. Roy): Part of the Indo- German conspiracy during WW I.
Naresh Ray: Was a youth from Mymensingh who graduated from Chittagong Medical College; was Bidhu Bhattacharya’s best friend; took part in the CAR; was in the team that had gone to attack the European Club; died at Jalalabad.
Nawab Mincha: Was the youngest Muslim revolutionary and was introduced by Maulvi Mir Ahmad; lured the police agent Paresh Gupta to a place where he was murdered by Amulya Acharya; was sentenced to two years of hard labour.
Nayantara Devi: Was Ram Krishna Biswas’s mother.
Nepal Dastidar (1911–94): Helped the absconders during the second phase of the revolution; took responsibility of the weapons; was arrested in 1934 and sentenced to hard labour at the Borstal Jail; released in 1937; took part in the Bharat Chhoro Aandolan; lived in Chattogram and took part in Bangladesh’s independence movement.
Netra Sen: Zamindar of Gairala village who betrayed Surjya Sen, and the older brother of Brajen Sen. Was beheaded by Kiran Sen.
Nibaran Ghose (1915–98): Was introduced by Kalipada Chakraborty; helped Kalpana carry nitric acid from Kolkata to Chittagong; laid the landmines in the Dynamite Conspiracy and was arrested while carrying explosives after a night’s work on 3 June 1931; was sentenced to hard labour and released in 1938; lived in Chattogram which became a part of East Pakistan and then Bangladesh.
Niranjan Rai (b. 1914): Was a part of the Telephone Bhavan wrecking team on the night of the CAR; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; returned to his village home and was not arrested for he was never seen as a suspect by the police; left for Rangoon sometime later and lived there until his death.
Niranjan Sengupta: Ganesh Ghosh’s friend from Anushilan who spent time with Surjya Sen in jail; was arrested in the Mechhua Bazaar case.
Nirendralal Bhattacharya: A schoolboy from Saroatali High School; was arrested in 1933 on the charge of carrying messages; committed suicide after two years in Hijli Jail.
Nirmal Lala: Fourteen-year-old from Cox’s Bazar; took part in CAR; the youngest martyr of Jalalabad; was introduced by Bidhu Bhushan Sen; was unknown to most people which included his colleagues; when he was hit, his compatriots had called to Surjya Sen saying a little boy has fallen; the photograph of his dead body was identified as that of Sudhangshu Bose’s by Sudhangshu’s father and uncle while Sudhangshu escaped to Burma.
Nirmal Sen (b. 1900, killed 13 June 1932): Led Paraikora dacoity along with Julu-da; stayed in the Suluk Bahar house but missed taking part in the AB Railway dacoity; was arrested under the BCLA in 1925 and was released on 27 November 1926; was one of the five leaders in the CAR; led the AFI raid team on the night of 18 April 1930; took part in Jalalabad; was killed in the Dhalghat encounter.
Nirmal Sen: A revolutionary from the city. Not the Nirmal Sen who was amongst the leaders.
Nishi Chandra De: Kali Kinkar De’s kaka; lived in a two-storeyed mud house surrounded by fruit trees close to a large pukur; worked at the AB Railway workshop at Pahartali; had iron bombshells cast at the workshop and turned his house into a factory where he manufactured landmines to be used in the Dynamite Conspiracy; his house was raided by a large contingent of armed police led by Mr Hicks, Khan Sahib Ahsanulla and DIG Wright on 3 June 1931; of the five revolutionaries who were at work inside, Kali Kinkar De and Apurva Sen succeeded in breaking through the cordon and escaping while Nishi De, Ardhendu Guha, Sushil Sen and Prafulla Mallick were arrested; Nishi De was acquitted by the special tribunal; lived in Chattogram after partition.
Nitaipada Ghose (Nitai) (1914–72): His father worked in the AB Railway; lived close to the AFI and with four companions walked to the site of attack on the night of the CAR; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; returned to Jessore on Surjya Sen’s instructions; was arrested in May 1930 in connection with the CAR Case; was acquitted for lack of evidence; rearrested immediately under the Bengal Ordinance and detained for the next five years.
Nityananda Gopal: The witness who had given an accurate description of Gopi Nath Saha to the police.
Nityaranjan Sen: Took part in the attack on the cricket ground on 7 January 1934 led by Krishna Choudhury – a protest against the sentence passed on Surjya Sen; flung a bomb which exploded close to Police Superintendent Cleary; he was killed during the encounter.
Nivedita Choudhury (later Guha) (b. 1920): Was influenced by her uncle Sudhindra Das and hid the groups’ seditious literature in her house; arranged for shelters for Kalpana Dutt and other absconders; was placed under house arrest from 30 October 1932 to February 1933; married Ardhendu Guha in 1943; joined the Communist Party; travelled on two occasions with her children, carrying arms to Kolkata for Ananta Lal Singh and Ganesh Ghosh who had just been released.
Noni Das: Helped Kalpana in Dynamite Conspiracy case once Ardhendu Guha was held back in jail.
Noni Dutt (Noni-da): Advocate Kamini Dutt’s son.
Noni Gopal Deb (Noni) (1913–86): His father worked with the AB Railway and Noni lived with his father at Double Mooring; he was a class 10 student when he took part in the police line attack on the night of the CAR; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; returned to Kumilla; was arrested in May 1930, tried in the CAR case and was acquitted; was rearrested immediately under the Bengal Ordinance and released in 1938; settled in Agartala in independent India.
N.R. Dasgupta: A lawyer who represented the revolutionaries at court.
Nripa Gopal: Was involved in the fight with Karunamoy over the topic of the school debate ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’.
Nripen Banerjee: A senior politician; the vice principal of Chittagong Government College and related to Suhashini Ganguli (Putudi); attended the Congress Assembly in Chittagong in 1929; investigated the riots along with Deshpriya Jatindra Mohan Sengupta after the assassination of Khan Bahadur Ahsanulla.
Nripen: Plotted the assassination of Tegart along with Gopi Nath Saha.
Panchanon Babu: Helped out with shopping at Chandannagar.
Pannalal Sen (b. 1901): Took part in the first failed attempt on the AB Railway Institute at Pahartali; took part in the second successful attempt led by Pritilata on the AB Railway Institute at Pahartali; worked at Ram Chandra Singh’s soda water shop on the banks of the Lal Dighi and maintained a liaison with the jail staff to help Surjya Sen escape from jail; was arrested on 15 July 1933 under the Bengal Ordinance and was
released in 1938; settled in Assam in independent India.
Payaj Kanti Choudhury: Had resisted joining the revolution but had personally sought out Kali Kinkar De after the names of the martyrs of the Battle of Jalalabad was made known. Two of his classmates, Pulin Ghose and Jiten Das, figured in that list; assumed responsibility for distributing pamphlets during the first failed attempt on the AB Railway Institute at Pahartali; distributed pamphlets after the second successful attempt led by Pritilata on the AB Railway Institute at Pahartali; died after an interrogation by Captain Stevenson of MIO.
Phonindra Nandi (Phoni) (1911–40 in jail): Amarendra Nandi’s cousin; was in the AFI raid team on the night of the CAR; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; had gone with Rajat, Debu, Swadesh, Mona and Subodh to attack a club in the city but was arrested just before the Kalarpol encounter; took part in the Dynamite Conspiracy while in jail; received life sentence and was sent to Andamans where he contracted tuberculosis; was brought back to Alipore Central Jail but despite Sarat Chandra Bose’s attempts, he was denied release and proper medical treatment; died in Alipore Central Jail in 1940.
Prabhat Ranjan Dutt (1914–78): Introduced by Ram Krishna Biswas; his home served as a weapons store; helped Kalpana in the Dynamite Conspiracy once Ardhendu was held back in jail; helped lay the mines; was arrested and sent to the Midnapore Jail; helped Dinesh Majumdar escape from Midnapore Jail; was rearrested under the Bengal Ordinance as soon as his time was up and moved to Hijli; was released in 1937 and settled in Calcutta in independent India.
Prafulla Babu: Taught young revolutionaries swimming.
Prafulla Pathak: Ticket collector at Feni railway station.
Prafulla Ranjan Das (Gamma) (b. 1915 ): Was a part of the first failed attempt on AB Railway Institute at Pahartali led by Shaileshwar Chakraborty; was a part of the second attack on the AB Railway Institute at Pahartali led by Pritilata Waddadar; was arrested on 12 March 1933 under the Bengal Ordinance and released in 1938.
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