Shanti Ranjan Sen (1915–94): Was on the pamphlet distribution team during the first failed attempt on the AB Railway Institute at Pahartali; distributed the pamphlets during the second successful attempt led by Pritilata on the AB Railway Institute at Pahartali; was involved in a plot to kill H.S. Hands together with Kalpana Dutt and Manilal Dutt; was arrested on 24 September 1933; released in 1938; joined the Communist Party; settled in independent India.
Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (Chatterji): A celebrated author of Bengal who wrote Pather Dabi, a work that the revolutionaries read copiously.
Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay: Howrah Zila Congress president.
Sharat Kanungo (Naingta) (b. 1915): Belonged to a wealthy family and was not looked at with suspicion by the police; his house was used for nearly a year during the Dynamite Conspiracy; was arrested in December 1931 and held for five years.
Shashadhar Acharya: Member of the Jugantar party in Kolkata and a worker in Eastern Railway, Howrah Department; took the responsibility of looking after four revolutionists on the run – Ananta Lal Singh, Ganesh Ghosh, Ananda Prasad Gupta and Jibon Ghoshal; pretended to be married to Suhashini Ganguli and took a house in Chandannagar where the revolutionists were put up; was arrested on 1 September 1930; was tortured severely but could not be formally punished because the crime had been committed in the French-occupied Chandannagar; he was held instead under the Bengal Ordinance for several years.
Shourindra Mohan Dutt Choudhury (called Dutt Rai by Chattogram Yuva-Vidroha 1930–34 Aalokmela) (1910–88): Was in Lal Mohan Sen’s group that wrecked one of the railway lines on the night of the CAR; was arrested in May 1930 in connection with the CAR Case; was acquitted for lack of evidence; rearrested immediately afterwards under the Bengal Ordinance and was released in 1938; settled in Agartala in independent India.
Sitangshu Sarkar: The medical student who looked after Ananda Gupta and Jibon Ghoshal in Kolkata.
Sitaram Biswas (b. 1912): Ram Krishna Biswas’s brother; took part in the police line attack on the night of the CAR; participated in the Battle of Jalalabad; went into hiding after Ram Krishna was hanged; was arrested in March 1933 but could not be tried due to lack of evidence and was detained under the Bengal Ordinance until 1938; settled in Delhi in independent India.
S.K. Basu: A lawyer who represented the revolutionists in the CAR Case.
Sripati Choudhury; (b. 1912): Was the son of a wealthy businessman; stole money from his father and gave it for the CAR; went into hiding in Akyab; was not able to make it back in time for the CAR; arrested on 27 April 1930 and released on bail; was acquitted due to lack of evidence; rearrested immediately under the Bengal Ordinance; released in 1937.
Srish Bose: Lawyer from Chandannagar who represented revolutionaries. Was christened Verbose by John Younie.
Subhas Chandra Bose (later known as Neta-ji): Younger brother of Sarat Chandra Bose, the barrister.
Subodh Bal (b. 1911, d. 25 December 1984): Joined Surjya Sen’s group in 1929 while he was a first-year student in Chattogram College; was a part of the police line attack team on the night of the CAR; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; returned home after the battles and was arrested within a few days; released on bail; was acquitted for lack of evidence in the CAR Case but was rearrested immediately under the Bengal Ordinance and detained until 1938; settled in Kolkata after independence and partition.
Subodh Chandra Biswas: Shouted slogans when Ananta Lal Singh was brought to jail; was the first name in the case – Chittagong Armoury Raid Case No. 1 1930 – The Emperor vs Subodh Chandra Biswas and Others; was a part of the Dynamite Conspiracy; was acquitted for lack of evidence.
Subodh Chandra Roy (Subodh Roy or Jhunku) (b. 1915 ): Son of the prominent lawyer Ratul Kumar Roy and cousin of Kalpana Dutt; recruited by Nirmal Sen in 1927 at the age of eleven; his father complained to the police that his son had taken his rifle without permission and was missing; took part in the police line attack on the night of the CAR; participated in the Battle of Jalalabad – describes the initial scene as: When I saw the Gurkhas with bayonets, I thought of shooting myself, then I thought I would not see my mother again (see p. 112 of Do And Die by Manini Chatterjee); led Surjya Sen’s group to his village home where they rested before dispersing; was arrested when he reached his home in the city; shouted slogans when Ananta Lal Singh was brought to jail; sentenced to hard labour in the Andamans but granted clemency on account of his age; released in 1938; joined the Communist Party; settled in independent India.
Subodh Choudhury (1910–72): Recruited as a Congress member by Tripura Sen and was hurt in the fighting during the Congress meeting on 21 September 1929 and taken to hospital; was visited by Ananta Lal Singh, Ganesh Ghosh and Lokenath Bal; his home in the Railway Quarters was given as a correspondence address to the Mechhua Bazaar conspirators and was raided; brought dhutis to help cover Tarakeshwar Dastidar and Ardhendu Shekhar Dastidar while Ananta Lal Singh was driving around with them waiting for a shelter to be fixed; studied the AFI armoury; was a part of the AFI armoury raid team on the night of the CAR; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; had gone with Rajat, Debu, Swadesh, Mona and Phonindra 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 a life sentence and was sent to Andamans; released in 1946; joined the Communist Party; was elected to the Vidhan Sabha three times.
Subodh Mitra (1911–91): Was introduced while still a schoolboy at Feni by Haralal Choudhury; was a part of the Railway line 1 wrecking team led by Lal Mohan Sen; returned home to Feni that night; was arrested in May 1930 and tried in connection with the CAR Case; was acquitted for lack of evidence but rearrested immediately under the Bengal Ordinance; released in 1937; settled in independent India.
Sudhangshu Bimal Bose (1912–88): Joined the group in 1928; was a member of the Sadarghat Club; was a part of the police line attack team on the night of the CAR; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; his father and uncle went to court and identified the photograph of Nirmal Lala’s dead body as that of Sudhangshu’s; after about four years he went to Burma and joined up with Haripada Mahajan and Bhabatosh Bhattacharya; Burma was occupied by the Japanese in 1942 and the British fled, Haripada Mahajan died the same year; in 1945 the British retook Burma and offered to help the Indians in Burma return home. Bhabatosh and Sudhangshu took the opportunity; the families took a while to recognize them and in a few days they were taken to jail; however the situation was no longer conducive to carry out a trial and they were released; settled in Chattogram which became a part of East Pakistan and later a part of Bangladesh.
Sudhindra Nath Das (Sudhindra ) (1911–94): Joined Surjya Sen’s group while a schoolboy; in the second phase of the revolution he helped with arranging shelters and collecting funds for the CAR absconders; was arrested in the Gohira village encounter along with Tarakeshwar Dastidar and Kalpana Dutt; shared the cell with Kali Kinkar De and replied to the letters Premlata sent; was sentenced to four years of hard labour; released in 1938; rearrested in 1942 for participating in the Bharat Chhoro Aandolan; settled in independent India.
Suhashini Ganguli (Putu-di) (1907–65): Ex-student of Bethune College in Kolkata; member of the Jugantar party; pretended to be Acharya’s wife at Chandannagar and looked after Ananta Lal Singh, Ganesh Ghosh, Jibon Ghoshal, Ananda Prasad Gupta and Lokenath Bal; was arrested in the Chandannagar encounter; was arrested in 1942 for participating in the Bharat Chhoro Aandolan; arrested in 1948 for being a member of the Communist Party which was seen as an illegal party.
Sukhendu Bikash Dastidar (1913–78): His younger brother’s residential tutor was Ardhendu Dutt who was also involved in the revolution; looked after Himangshu when he was burnt on the night of the CAR; was responsible for distributing pamphlets on the night of the CAR; returned after the distribution and waited near Ganesh Ghosh’s shop to join the victorious revolutionaries and eventually went home disappointed; was arrested on the morning of 19 April 1930 while
still in possession of the pamphlets; shouted slogans when Ananta Lal Singh was brought to jail; was a proficient sampan sailor and was named as one who would help sail the sampan across the river during the planned jail break from Chittagong Jail; was given transportation for life and sent to the Andamans but granted clemency; released in 1946 and joined the Communist Party; settled in East Pakistan which eventually became Bangladesh.
Sukhendu Bikash Dutt (1906–68): Part of Surjya Sen’s group; left Bengal to build up the organization in Bihar and had been arrested in the Deogarh Conspiracy; sentenced to hard labour for five years and was then detained in jail under the Bengal Ordinance; tried to help Surjya Sen escape from jail; released in 1938; joined the Congress.
Sukhendu Bikash Dutt: Ananda Gupta’s classmate who had been stabbed during the September 1929 elections in Chattogram.
Sukhendu Dutt: Along with Dhaka’s Birendra Chatterji, Chattogram’s Pramod Ranjan Choudhury, Nadia’s Ananta Hari Mitra and seven others attacked and killed Rai Bahadur Bhupen Chatterji during a meeting at Alipore Central Jail; was tried but not hanged. He may or may not be the same Sukhendu Bikash Dutt who was arrested in the Deogarh Conspiracy Case and tried to help Master-da escape from jail.
Sukumar Bhowmik (b. 1913): Part of railway line 1 wrecking team led by Lal Mohan Sen on the night of the CAR; arrested in June 1930; was set free after the CAR trial for lack of evidence; was rearrested under the Bengal Ordinance and released in 1938; settled in Agartala in independent India.
Sukumar Biswas: The nephew of Ananta Lal Singh’s old colleague and brother-in-arms Premananda; one of Surjya Sen’s students who had carried letters from Surjya Sen to his wife; had a restaurant in Kolkata; probably the one who betrayed Ananta Lal Singh to Tegart.
Sukumar Kanungo: Came into contact with the revolutionaries while they were in hiding after the Battle of Jalalabad. Was accidentally shot dead in 1931, during a weapons training session and was given a quiet burial in the hills.
Sumati Majumdar: Ananda Gupta’s aunt who gave him and Jibon Ghoshal money to escape to Kolkata.
Sunil De: Part of railway line 2 wrecking team.
Suren: The farmer who had provided Ananta Lal Singh refuge.
Suresh Banik (code name Pathik): His home was a shelter called Tapovan; was arrested for sheltering absconders; was sentenced to hard labour in Dhaka Central Jail where he contracted smallpox and was placed in an isolation cell where he died.
Suresh Chandra De (Sadhu) (b. 1911, d. 21 May 1990): Was a student of class 9 in the Municipal High School when Kalipada Chakraborty introduced him to Surjya Sen; mentored by Ram Krishna Biswas; was a part of the police line raid team on the night of the CAR; injured in the Battle of Jalalabad; had a bullet in his arm and succeeded in escaping with the help of Shanti Nag; went into hiding in his family home at Dhaka; was arrested in January 1933 and held without trial for four years; settled in Jamshedpur in independent India; the boy who had no shoes during his youth founded Sreeleathers in 1952.
Surjya Sen (Surya Sen) (b. 22 March 1894, hanged 12 January 1934): Son of Rajmoni Sen and Sashibala Devi of Noapara village.
Sushil Dasgupta (1911–87): Was with Surjya Sen, Kalpana Dutt, Mani Dutt, Shanti Chakraborty and Brajen Sen in the shelter at Gairala village when it was raided; succeeded in escaping; arrested on 15 August 1933 and held without trial until 1938; settled in independent India.
Sushil Kumar De (Sushil De) (b. 1908, d. 29 June 2000): Introduced by classmate Sarada Seel in 1923; was caught while learning to fire a revolver and arrested in 1928; was a part of the railway line wrecking team led by Upen Bhattacharya on the night of the CAR; returned to Chattogram that very night to join up with Surjya Sen and the revolutionaries but not finding them there went back to the village; was arrested but released after two months due to lack of evidence; helped the absconders and arranged to move them between secure shelters; was a part of the original plan to kill Khan Bahadur Ahsanulla – he and others were to lob hand bombs at the crowd and give Haripada the chance to enter the ring that surrounded the target; was part of the first failed attempt on AB Railway Institute at Pahartali led by Shaileshwar Chakraborty; had found the Jeshtapur shelter which Surjya Sen had named Kutir; was part of the second attack on the AB Railway Institute at Pahartali led by Pritilata Waddadar; was arrested in September 1933 under the Arms Act and sentenced to seven years in the Andamans; protested against the treatment meted out to political prisoners; released in 1939 but was barred from entering Chattogram; joined the Communist Party in Kolkata and participated in the Shramik Aandolan; was rearrested in 1940, when WW II broke out, under the Defence of India Act and released in 1942; settled in Chattogram but was imprisoned by the Government of East Pakistan; moved to Agartala in independent India.
Sushil Sen: Was arrested and tried in the Dynamite Conspiracy Case.
Swadesh Roy: Member of Sadarghat Club; a contractor by profession; was not invited to join the revolution and had been rebuffed several times but still went to join them voluntarily on the night of 18 April 1930 when he heard the firing at the police lines; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; preferred to commit suicide instead of surrendering in the Kalarpol encounter.
Taracharan Baba: The sadhu who visited Chittagong.
Tarakeshwar Dastidar (Phutu) (b. 1904, hanged 12 January 1934): Became a part of the movement in 1924 when the leaders had all been arrested under the Bengal Ordinance; was introduced by Ardhendu Dutt to Ananta Lal Singh in 1928; introduced Ram Krishna Biswas; looked after Ram Krishna Biswas when he was burnt while making explosives; was a chemistry student at Chattogram College and was involved in manufacturing explosives; was burnt along with Ardhendu Shekhar Dastidar during an explosion in the Congress office before the raid and as a result could not take part in the CAR or in the Jalalabad encounter; took part in the Dynamite Conspiracy; he and Biren De were chased by Detective Inspector Sashank Bhattacharya. Tarakeshwar killed him near Barma village; became the IRA leader after Surjya Sen’s capture; surrendered at the Gohira village encounter on 18 May 1933; was hanged along with Surjya Sen in Chittagong Jail.
Tegra: See Hari Gopal Bal.
Tripura Sen: Was made a lieutenant in the Volunteer Vahini during the Congress Assembly in Chittagong; was responsible for making sure all watches were synchronized on the night of the CAR; was a part of the team that went to attack the European Club; died at Jalalabad.
Umesh Singh: Ananta Lal Singh’s cousin in Tripura, who helped acquire arms.
Upen Bhattacharya (1899–1965): Stayed in the Suluk Bahar house and took part in the AB Railway dacoity in December 1923; escaped from the Nagarkhana Hill battle site; was arrested in the Maniktala Bomb Case and released just before the Chittagong Armoury Raid; he was keen on taking part and was mentioned in the mobilization list found in Ganesh Ghosh’s home after the raid; was a part of the railway line 2 wrecking team and the telegraph line disruption team; returned to the city on 19 April 1930 to take part in the second phase but finding nobody he returned home; was arrested in a few days but was allowed to go within three months because of lack of evidence; maintained contact with Surjya Sen; was arrested in 1932 and held without trial for six years; settled in East Pakistan which became Bangladesh.
Basanta Kumar Bandopadhyay: A resident of Gondolpara, Chandannagar, who helped Ananta Lal Singh, Ganesh Ghosh, Jibon Ghoshal and Ananda Prasad Gupta enter Chandannagar.
Vasant Majumdar: One of Kumilla’s richest zamindars who helped Ananta Lal Singh escape to Kolkata after the CAR.
Vijay Krishna Aich (b. 1913): Joined Surjya Sen’s group in 1929; led the railway line 2 wrecking team; walked back to Chattogram to join up with the army but finding them gone went back into the village; was arrested a month later and released due to lack of evidence; rearrested in September 1930 under the Bengal Ordinance and spent six years in various jails; settled in Kolkata after independence and partition and worked in the New Secretariat Building.
Vijay Krishna Sen (mentioned in Chattogram Yuva-Vidroha 1930
–34 Aalokmela) (b. 1911, d. 7 May 1992): Was a part of the police line attack team on the night of the CAR; took part in the Battle of Jalalabad; was not in the police eye and was able to return home safely; was arrested under the Bengal Ordinance in 1932 and detained without trial until 1938; settled in Agartala in independent India.
Vijay Kumar Sen: Took part in the CAR; participated in the Battle of Jalalabad and is mentioned as a member of group number 5 in Suresh De’s list in Muktir Sopon Jalalabad; was in jail when Ananda Prasad Gupta was brought to Chattogram Jail and had been granted bail – mentioned in Ananda Gupta’s list and in Ananta Lal Singh’s list; tried in the CAR Case: acquitted for lack of evidence.
BRITISH CAMP
Ahsanulla (Khan Sahib): Arrested Ambika Chakraborty from Potiya; present at the Kalarpol encounter; killed by Haripada Bhattacharya after a football match.
Ali Pande (sub-inspector): Took part in the Kalarpol encounter.
Ali Rahim: The vice president of the Union Board who was a witness in the Kalarpol encounter.
Azim Abdul (sub-inspector): Launched a hunt for Tegra, Tripura and Bidhu on 25 March 1930; hunted for Ram Krishna after a case was registered on his name under the Explosive Substances Act; took part in the Kalarpol encounter.
Baker (major): Traffic manager during the time of the armoury attacks; became OC of the local unit of the AFI and led the attack on Chittagong as part of revenge for Ahsanulla’s murder.
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