PRESERVE THE HERITAGE SITES LINKED TO THE REVOLUTIONARIES

PRESERVE THE HERITAGE SITES LINKED TO THE REVOLUTIONARIES

The buildings used by our revolutionaries for their revolutionary purposes such as carrying out attacks against the British like Katra Dhulia in Chandni Chowk of Delhi from where Rash Behari Bose and Basanta Biswas hurled bombs on Lord Hardinge must be declared heritage sites and preserved by the Government of India. Katra Dhulia is now a wholesale market which ought to be relocated and the building duly made into a museum that will depict the early revolutionary movement for freedom in India.

Join me in this crusade for the preservation of our revolutionary sites such as the ancestral house of Rash Behari Bose and so many others which now lie either in ruins or have been sold out and obliterated by new constructions. This is destruction of history and ought to be resisted through the awakening of public opinion against it. If we truly revere our revolutionaries for freedom, we must step in and activate the Government to adopt adequate measures for their preservation, restoration and the construction of museums there so that posterity will find the footprints of history to go by in their search for the story of this motherland of ours.

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo : Artistic depiction of Lord Hardinge, Viceroy of India, on elephant back having been struck by a bomb hurled at him by the duo of Basanta Biswas and Rash Behari Bose at Chandni Chowk, Delhi on 23 December, 1912. Hardinge escaped fatality but was wounded that precipitated him on to the ground. His mahout was killed and his wife, Lady Hardinge, was left unconscious on elephant back. The assailants escaped in the melee and Rash Behari went back to Dehradun to his habitat to organise a meeting condemning the 'dastardly' attack which shook off any probable suspicion of the British about his involvement in the episode. Basanta Biswas was later apprehended at his own home while performing the post-funeral rites of his shortly deceased father, having been betrayed by a relative to the British police. Rash Behari, after many more daring adventures which saw him donning an endless stream of disguises, eventually escaped to Japan in the guise of P.N.Tagore and lived on to reorganise the Indian revolutionary movement abroad which finally sealed the fate of British colonialism in India

Sugata Bose MISINFORMATION OF A MEGA MAGNITUDE, AN INJUSTICE TO THE MARTYR BASANTA KUMAR BISWAS, UNWITTINGLY PERHAPS, THROUGH A LACK OF AWARENESS OF THE FACTS OR A TEMPORARY LAPSE OF MEMORY, BY SANJEEV SANYAL

This video is representative of a misinformation at 32 min onward. Sanjeev Sanyal says that Rash Behari Bose and Sachindranath Sanyal hurled bombs on Lord Hardinge on 23 December, 1912 when it was Rash Behari Bose and Basanta Kumar Biswas who had done so. Basanta Biswas hurled the bomb under Rash Behari's instructions and directions and has been totally forgotten here in this speech by Sanjeev Sanyal who has erroneously replaced him by Sachindranath Sanyal who was another of Rash Behari's revolutionary associates. This has been, to my mind, a disastrous error of reference, a misrepresentation of fact and a grave injustice rendered unwittingly unto the martyr Basanta Kumar Biswas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BXevgLH-tc&t=626s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachindra_Nath_Sanyal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basanta_Kumar_Biswas