Prafulla Ranjan Mallick (b. 1911): Introduced by Kali Kinkar De; was a member of the pamphlets distribution team on the night of the CAR; retrieved the weapons hidden in a pukur in the forests by Surjya Sen’s group; laid the landmines and was arrested on 4 June 1931 from the house of Kali Kinkar De in connection with the Dynamite Conspiracy Case; sentenced to hard labour; released in 1937; lived in Chattogram until his death.
Pramod Dasgupta: Laid the landmines in the Dynamite Conspiracy.
Pramod Ranjan Choudhury (b. 1900, hanged September 1926): Introduced Ananta Lal Singh to Surjya Sen and was amongst the first-rankers in the group formed in 1918; moved to Anushilan along with Charu Bikash Dutt; was a part of the dacoity in Chattogram’s Noapara zila; while arrests were being carried out under the Bengal Ordinance of 1924, he escaped with Surjya Sen to Kolkata; on 10 November 1925 he, along with Ananta Chakraborty and Rakhal De, helped Surjya Sen escape from a police raid on the house in Shobhabazaar before they were themselves arrested; murdered Rai Bahadur Bhupen Chatterji during a meeting at Alipore Central Jail and was tried along with Chattogram’s Sukhendu Dutt, Dhaka’s Birendra Chatterji, Ananta Hari Mitra and others; was hanged along with Ananta Hari Mitra.
Pranhari Das: Zamindar of Kattali village, father of musician Suren Das, gave refuge to Lokenath’s group after the Battle of Jalalabad.
Prasanna Talukdar (b. 1889): Landlord at the Gohira village shelter; brother of Purno Talukdar who was killed in the encounter; was injured in the encounter and arrested; sentenced to three years of hard labour; lived in Chattogram after partition.
Prashant Dasgupta (1917–2000): Was introduced in the second phase of the revolution by Dhiren De (most probably Biren De), who had returned from the Battle of Jalalabad; arranged for shelters for the absconders; placed under house arrest in 1933 and later made to leave Chattogram; settled in independent India.
Pratul Babu: Old-time revolutionary who was excluded from Surjya Sen’s group.
Pratul Bhattacharya: An Anushilan Party member and Ganesh Ghosh’s friend.
Pravin-da: Old-time revolutionary who was excluded from Surjya Sen’s group.
Premananda Dutt: Responded to C.R. Das’s call and left his job to take part in the Ashahjog Aandolan for which he was arrested; supported the AB Railway workers’ strike in 1921; was introduced by Ananta Lal Singh to the revolutionary group; took part in the Paraikora dacoity; betrayed Ananta Lal Singh and then regretting the action murdered Sub-inspector Prafulla Roy; was acquitted but rearrested under the Bengal Ordinance; eventually lost his mind and was sent to the asylum in Ranchi where he died.
Premlata: Kali Kinkar De’s first wife whom he called Priti; she took part in the Dynamite Conspiracy; learnt how to fire a revolver but was sent back after Kalpana Dutt’s arrest; committed suicide when she learnt her husband had been sentenced for life to the Andamans.
Pritilata Waddadar (code name Rani) (b. 5 May 1911, committed suicide 24 September 1932): One of her father’s properties was used for manufacturing explosives for the Dynamite Conspiracy; was present at Dhalghat the day it was raided on 13 June 1932; became headmistress of Nandan Kanan High School after the Dhalghat encounter; successfully led the attack on the AB Railway Institute at Pahartali on 24 September 1932 and committed suicide immediately afterwards.
Probhash Bal: Lokenath and Tegra’s seventeen-year-old cousin; was recruited by Kalipada Chakraborty and forced to give up smoking; took part in the CAR and went for the raid on the AFI armoury; died at Jalalabad.
Prodyot Bhattacharya: The juvenile involved in the murder of District Magistrate Douglas of Midnapore; was hanged at Midnapore Central Jail on 13 January 1933.
Pulin Bihari Majumdar: Assistant stationmaster at Feni railway station.
Pulin Ghose: Known as Quick Silver the messenger; recruited Kali Kinkar De; took part in the CAR; drank lubricant out of desperation while trekking through the hills; held out a green mango as he lay dying at Jalalabad – one that he had saved for Lokenath.
Pundit: See Kalipada Chakraborty.
Purnendu Dastidar: Ardhendu Shekhar Dastidar’s elder brother; along with Renu Rai and Kamala Banerjee, helped Kalpana Dutt procure nitric acid in Kolkata.
Purno Talukdar: Fifty-year-old landlord at the Gohira village shelter, killed during the encounter on 19 May 1933.
Pushpo Kuntala Devi (Pushpo Boudi): Surjya Sen’s wife.
Rabindra Nandi (Khoka) (b. 1916): Accompanied Kiran Sen on the mission to kill Zamindar Netra Sen who had betrayed Surjya Sen; was arrested in 1934 under the Bengal Ordinance; sentenced to two years of hard labour for disobeying jail rules; released in 1938; settled in independent India.
Rabindra Narayan Sen (Robi Sen) (1910–80): A youth from Saroatali village who worked as a driver for Jibon Ghoshal’s father; was a skilled electrician and a member of the Sadarghat Club; was recruited by Ardhendu Guha as per Ananta Lal Singh’s instructions; supervised the electrical connections in the landmines; was a freshfaced lad and, dressed in a sari, had accompanied Hriday Das and approached Pritilata Waddadar’s father to take one of his properties on rent; he was to wait at the appointed site with a truck on the day of the proposed jail break; was arrested in connection with the Dynamite Conspiracy and sentenced to hard labour for seven years; settled in independent India.
Rajan Sen (called Rajani Sen in Chattogram Yuva-Vidroha 1930–34 Aalokmela): Kalarpol Shaheed Monoranjan Sen’s sixty-year-old father; a pleader of the Chittagong court; he was kicked to death in his own house by Sergeant Kelly during the riots that followed Khan Bahadur Ahsanulla’s murder.
Rajani Biswas: Ananta Lal Singh’s neighbour and advocate who advised him not to resist a search; represented the revolutionaries at court in the CAR case.
Rajat Sen: First-year intermediate student of Chittagong College; a good footballer who used to play with the police teams; a good artist – Sir Stanley Jackson had once offered to recommend him for admission to art college; nearly as powerfully built as Lokenath Bal; his house served as a training centre; was a part of the AFI raid team on the night of the CAR; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; preferred to commit suicide instead of surrendering in the Kalarpol encounter.
Rajen Das: A man as old as Surjya Sen, who harangued him for not doing enough work and got frightened when Ananta Lal Singh put him through a test at night.
Rajendra Kumar Dasgupta (Rajen Das) (b. 1903): Stayed in the Suluk Bahar house and took part in the AB Railway dacoity; during the Nagarkhana Hill battle he consumed the same spurious cyanide that Surjya Sen and Ambika Chakraborty had consumed; regained consciousness at night and found himself lying in an obscure part of the hill; went home and went into hiding; was arrested on 16 February 1925 under the Bengal Ordinance; lost his mental balance after being tortured in jail and was released on 25 September 1928.
Rakhal De (b. 1901): A friend of Surjya Sen’s students Sukumar Biswas and Dalil Rehman; was arrested, along with Ananta Chakrborty and Pramod Ranjan Choudhury, on 10 November 1925 from the Shobhabazaar shelter after helping Surjya Sen escape; prosecuted in the Dakshineshwar Bomb Case; was given life transportation for the murder of Rai Bahadur Bhupen Chatterji and moved between several jails, spending twelve years in the Andamans before securing his release in 1936; joined the Congress and led the Bhudaan Aandolan; settled in independent India.
Rakhal Sakha Basak: Took part in the Dynamite Conspiracy; gunpowder was made at his home.
Ram Krishna Biswas (called Ledu by the family): Younger brother of Sitaram Biswas who took part in the CAR and the Battle of Jalalabad; was introduced to Surjya Sen by Tarakeshwar Dastidar; mentored Suresh De; made and put up revolutionary posters in the city; suffered serious burns while manufacturing percussion caps just before the armoury raid; went with Kalipada Chakraborty to assassinate Mr Craig on 1 December 1930 but killed Inspector Tarini Mukherji by mistake; motivated Pritilata Waddadar who came to meet him in jail; was hanged at Alipore Central Jail on 4 August 1931.
Ram Krishna Chakraborty: Minor boy who
was arrested on 13 June 1932 along with his mother, Savitri Devi – the landlady at Dhalghat; was sentenced to four years of hard labour and moved to Midnapore Central Jail where he was made to work the oil mills; denied permission to meet his mother despite having contracted tuberculosis; died in jail in 1934.
Ramani Nath Banerjee (1914–2001): Was introduced by Ardhendu Guha; was responsible for planting two motor car batteries and connecting the lead wires to the landmines under the court building; was arrested in 1932 and placed under house arrest first in his Chattogram home and later in his ancestral home in Dhaka.
Ramen Bhowmik: Under the guidance of Saroj Kanti Guha, he shot L.G. Durno, district magistrate of Dhaka.
Ranadhir Dasgupta (1915–88): Had brought his father’s rifle for the raid; participated in the police line attack on the night of the CAR; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; was arrested and tried in the CAR Case; was given transportation for life but granted clemency; resisted his father’s attempt to appeal and reopen the case; took part in the second hunger strike in the Cellular Jail; was released in December 1938; joined the Communist Party; settled in Kolkata after partition.
Ranjan Lal Sen: The father of Rajat Sen, a lawyer by profession.
Rash Bihari Basu: A journalist implicated in the attack on Lord Hardinge; escaped to Japan from where he continued fuelling the revolution.
Rashik Nandi: Amarendra Nandi’s father.
Ratneshwar Sheel (b. 1917): Was introduced by Binod Bihari Dutt in the second phase of the revolution; was arrested from his home in Durgapur and sentenced to hard labour under the Indian Arms Act on 6 September 1935; joined the Communist Party and settled in independent India.
Robi Sen: See Rabindra Narayan Sen.
Rohini Barua (b. 1915): Was a Buddhist by religion; believed in achieving freedom for India; was harassed by police while they were picking up suspicious youths but since there was no evidence against him, he was held without trial as a detenue; was moved from jail to jail and finally interned in a village under the Gwaland Thana. He was being constantly called to the thana and being harassed by the daroga. On 15 June 1935, Rohini drew a talwar and slew the daroga inside the thana; there was no evidence of his guilt but Rohini insisted on confessing and refused the advice to apply for an appeal. He was hanged on 15 December 1935 at the Faridpore Jail. Sachin Sanyal (Sachindranath Sanyal) (1873–1942): Founder member of the Hindustan Republican Association, which after 1928 became the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association; was extensively involved in the Ghadr conspiracy and went into hiding in 1915; was tried and sentenced in the Kakori Conspiracy Case in 1925 and sent to the Cellular Jail in the Andamans; wrote his book Bandi Jibon – A Captive Life; died while in the Gorakhpur Jail.
Sachin Sen: Ram Krishna’s friend.
Sachindra Prasad Sen (Maan-da) (1909–80): Lived in Saroatali village; son of a Congressman who involved him in the Ashahjog Aandolan of 1922; was a BA student in Chattogram College; carried weapons for Ananta Lal Singh from Kolkata in 1929; after the CAR and the Battle of Jalalabad his house became a secret meeting place for the leaders; took part in the Dynamite Conspiracy and was made the area in-charge for Chattogram city; went into hiding, was arrested in December 1932 from Kumilla and detained under the Bengal Ordinance until 1938; settled in independent India.
Sahayram Das (1913–91): Was recruited by classmates Sukhendu Bikash Dutt and Motilal Kanungo; was in the same class as Ananda Prasad Gupta; took part in the CAR; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; returned home but was handed over to the police by his own uncle; took part in the Dynamite Conspiracy; sang Bande Mataram in court the day Motilal Nehru died; transported for life to the Andamans; released in 1946; joined the Communist Party.
Sailendra Nath Ghose: The president of the Indian National Congress of America who threatened to have Gandhi replaced in case he backed down during the negotiations with the British.
Sailesh Ray (b. 1911): A new member of the Chittagong group introduced by Haralal Choudhury; was guided by Binod Bihari Dutt and carried out the murder of the police superintendent of Kumilla, Mr Ellison, on 29 July 1932; was caught outside Chittagong Jail while trying to arrange for Surjya Sen’s escape; was sentenced for seven years to the Andamans under the Indian Arms Act on 25 May 1933; took part in the thirty-eight-day hunger strike while in the Cellular Jail; was released in 1940 and rearrested because of World War II; lived for a while in East Pakistan and then moved to independent India.
Sampad Choudhury: This nineteen-year-old was arrested in 1933 for helping absconders; died in 1934 while still in prison.
Sanjiv Dutt: Kamini Dutt’s youngest son who lived in Shyambazaar, Kolkata.
Santosh-da: Led the group that carried out the Shankharitola post office dacoity.
Sarat Chandra Bose (b. 6 September 1889, d. 20 February 1950): The barrister who came to defend Ananta Lal Singh; also the older brother of Subhas Chandra Bose; brought four freshly made hand grenades packed with TNT and 2,000 rupees to Chattogram for Surjya Sen; helped rehabilitate some of the revolutionaries when they were released from jail; worked for reunification of Bengal and was the first to donate money into the fund being raised by Ananta Lal Singh; in a signed editorial to be published in The Nation written half an hour before his death he appealed to the people of India and Pakistan: That East Bengal as a distinct and separate State should join the Indian Union and that the people of India and Pakistan should bring pressure to bear upon their respective Governments to bring it about as soon as possible. He further appealed to the Bengalis, both Hindu and Muslim, to abjure the cult of violence, restore sobriety and sanity, re-establish communal harmony; not look either Delhi way or Karachi way for the light would not come from there. Be guided by the light within was his last request to the Bengalis.
Saroj Bhattacharya: Was on the pamphlet distribution team on the night of the CAR.
Saroj Kanti Guha (1912–85): Was introduced by Ananta Lal Singh; stole jewellery worth Rs 1,000/- that was being readied for a wedding in the family and handed it to Ananta Lal Singh; was sent as a trainer for Indumati Singh’s physical education classes for girls; was a part of the police line attack team on the night of the CAR; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; went into hiding and under Surjya Sen’s directions, masterminded the attempt on Mr Durno’s life; was arrested on 3 August 1932 from the district of Noakhali; was tried along with Ambika Chakraborty in the Supplementary Armoury Raid Case Trial which began on 2 January 1933; sentenced to transportation for life to the Andamans; joined the Communist Party on release and settled in West Bengal in independent India.
Sarojini and Nalini Pal: The two sisters belonged to a wealthy family from Fatehabad and studied at Bethune College in Kolkata; they carried a trunk filled with twenty pounds of acid, on Kalpana’s behalf, from Kolkata to Chattogram.
Sashank Dutt: Was an intermediate student at Chattogram College; took part in the CAR; died in the Battle of Jalalabad.
Sashank Mohan Choudhury (Madan) (b. 1919): Knew that Sailesh Ray, the tutor who lived in his house, had kept a suitcase with contraband goods in the study room; was seen moving the suitcase out of the house the night Sailesh Ray was arrested; was arrested and sentenced to three years of hard labour at the Borstal Jail.
Sashi Bhushan Sen (most probably Sati-da): Amarendra Nandi and Diptimedha Choudhury were supposed to go from Badulla Hill and try to get in touch with Sashi Bhushan Sen for news about Ananta Lal Singh and Ganesh Ghosh.
Sasmal B.N.: A barrister styled as the pride of Midnapore; argued on behalf of Ananta Lal Singh, Ganesh Ghosh and Lokenath Bal during the conclusion of the case.
Sati-da: See Sashi Bhushan Sen.
Satish Chandra De: Suresh De’s older brother.
Satish Pakrashi: An Anushilan Party member; also Ganesh Ghosh’s friend; was arrested in the Mechhua Bazaar Case along with Niranjan Sengupta.
Savitri Chakraborty (b. 1887): Hostess at Dhalghat who along with her daughter, Snehalata, and son, Ram Krishna, looked after Surjya Sen
, Nirmal Sen, Apurva Sen and Pritilata Waddadar; was arrested after the raid on 13 June 1932 in which Nirmal Sen, Apurva Sen and Captain Cameron were killed and her house blown apart; her daughter turned Crown witness; her son died of tuberculosis while in jail; she refused to confess despite the torture; was not accepted by her relatives after she was released and lived as a destitute.
S.C. Mukherji: Represented the revolutionaries at court.
Shaileshwar Chakraborty: A youth originally from Cox’s Bazar who was a BA student in Kumilla; took part in the CAR and the Battle of Jalalabad; was a part of the original plan to kill Khan Bahadur Ahsanulla – he and some others were to lob hand bombs at the crowd and give Haripada the chance to enter the ring that surrounded Ahsanulla, but that day the plan failed and Haripada single-handedly shot the Khan Bahadur on 30 August 1931; led the first failed attempt on AB Railway Institute at Pahartali on10 August 1932 and committed suicide that night; was given a hurried burial by his colleagues; he was nineteen years old when he died.
Shaileshwar: Was responsible for distributing leaflets on the night of 18 April 1930.
Shankar: Had come to inform Ananta Lal Singh when Ram Krishna got burnt; was responsible for making the Dui thaiya dui anna – two rupees two annas–statement which became a joke in the group; was a part of the railway line 2 wrecking team.
Shanti Bhushan Nag (1912–72): Was a Chattogram Municipal High School student and joined Surjya Sen’s group in 1928; was a part of the AFI raid team in the CAR, his bullet struck Sergeant Major J.W. Farrell; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; helped Suresh De escape from the Jalalabad battle site and took him to his family home in Dhaka; was arrested in May 1930 from his own home in Kumilla; was acquitted for lack of evidence but rearrested immediately under the Bengal Ordinance and kept in jail for the next six years; settled in Agartala in independent India.
Shanti Chakraborty (1914–43): Joined Anushilan Party as a student of class 8 in 1930; was involved in the picketing of a liquor shop when he got beaten up by a police sergeant; retrieved the firearms that were hidden by Lokenath’s team in a pukur after the Battle of Jalalabad and handed them over to the Anushilan Party leaders; got in touch with the CAR absconders in 1932 and joined Masterda’s group; 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; was called Doordeshi Dada or Shanti-da by Kalpana; was injured while escaping from the Gairala village raid; was arrested in 1934, tried under the Indian Arms Act and sentenced to hard labour in the Andamans Cellular Jail; joined the Communist Party on release; became ill and died in Chattogram Hospital.
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