REDOUBTABLE REVOLUTIONARY, RASH BEHARI BOSE ... 1
Rash Behari Bose is arguably the greatest revolutionary of the freedom movement. This it seems after reading Narayan Sanyal's biography of him named 'Ami Rash Behari ke dekhechhi'. I sincerely request all to read up this book which is simply gripping in its narrative. The hero's numerous escapes from the clutches of the British police in disguise, masterfully executed, leaves one breathless. This is entirely a personal opinion but one that has thus far found resonance with many who have gone through Narayan Sanyal's book. Read and judge for yourself.
Rash Behari's Bose's revolutionary activities spanned the first half of the twentieth century till his death in January, 1945. Acquitted of charges in the Alipore Bomb Case of 1908, Rash Behari reported to Dehradun where he worked as clerk in the Forest Research Institute. He thereafter got involved in active revolutionary programmes and established a network in the whole of North India to attempt a military coup that would end British rule in India. He masterminded the Hardinge Attack in 1912 which implicated Basanta Kumar Biswas who was after years of evasion apprehended and hanged.
Rash Behari met Bagha Jatin in 1913 and gathered himself to rally revolutionaries for the upcoming Ghadar Revolution of 1915. The attempted mutiny of British Indian soldiers was aborted at the last moment when Kripal Singh betrayed the cause and lent out the revolutionary secrets to the British intelligence on the eve of the planned revolution. Rash Behari now went underground and slipped away from India in the guise of a wealthy landlord, P. N. Tagore by name, to Japan.
In Japan Rash Behari found refuge with some Pan-Asian groups that were fighting to free Asia of European colonists. The British who were then allies of Japan pressurised the Japanese Government for Bose's extradition but failed in their ploy as the wily revolutionary continuously shifted residence between 1915 and 1918 to evade arrest.
Written by Sugata Bose
Rash Behari Bose is arguably the greatest revolutionary of the freedom movement. This it seems after reading Narayan Sanyal's biography of him named 'Ami Rash Behari ke dekhechhi'. I sincerely request all to read up this book which is simply gripping in its narrative. The hero's numerous escapes from the clutches of the British police in disguise, masterfully executed, leaves one breathless. This is entirely a personal opinion but one that has thus far found resonance with many who have gone through Narayan Sanyal's book. Read and judge for yourself.
Rash Behari's Bose's revolutionary activities spanned the first half of the twentieth century till his death in January, 1945. Acquitted of charges in the Alipore Bomb Case of 1908, Rash Behari reported to Dehradun where he worked as clerk in the Forest Research Institute. He thereafter got involved in active revolutionary programmes and established a network in the whole of North India to attempt a military coup that would end British rule in India. He masterminded the Hardinge Attack in 1912 which implicated Basanta Kumar Biswas who was after years of evasion apprehended and hanged.
Rash Behari met Bagha Jatin in 1913 and gathered himself to rally revolutionaries for the upcoming Ghadar Revolution of 1915. The attempted mutiny of British Indian soldiers was aborted at the last moment when Kripal Singh betrayed the cause and lent out the revolutionary secrets to the British intelligence on the eve of the planned revolution. Rash Behari now went underground and slipped away from India in the guise of a wealthy landlord, P. N. Tagore by name, to Japan.
In Japan Rash Behari found refuge with some Pan-Asian groups that were fighting to free Asia of European colonists. The British who were then allies of Japan pressurised the Japanese Government for Bose's extradition but failed in their ploy as the wily revolutionary continuously shifted residence between 1915 and 1918 to evade arrest.
Written by Sugata Bose
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