Basanta Kumar Biswas
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| Basanta Kumar Biswas | |
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| February 6, 1895–May 11, 1915 | |
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| Place of birth: | Poragachha, Nadia District, West Bengal, India |
| Place of death: | Ambala Central Jail - Punjab, India |
| Movement: | Indian Independence movement |
| Major organizations: | Jugantar |
Basanta Kumar Biswas (b. 6 February 1895 ,Poragachha in the Nadia d. 1915 ) was a revolutionary activist of the Jugantar group who in December 1912 bombed the Viceroy's Parade in what came to be known as the Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy . He was initiated to revolutionary movement by Jugantar leaders Amarendranath Chattopadhyaya and Rash Behari Bose.
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On 23 December 1912 Basanta, disguised as a lady, threw a bomb at Governor General Lord Charles Hardinge in Delhi.[1]Police arrested him on 26 February 1914 at Krishnanagar, Nadia while he was performing the last rites of his deceased father. He was then only 19. The trial of the Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy case began on 23 May 1914 in Delhi and on 5 October, Basanta was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The government was eager to give him death sentence. So a court appeal was formulated at Lahore High Court and, making a mockery of the whole judicial system, the records at Ambala jail were tampered with and Basanta's age was enhanced by two years to prove that he was fully aware of the intensity of his crime. The tampering is till date left uncorrected in the jail records. Basanta Kumar Biswas was sentenced to be hanged till death.
Basanta Kumar Biswas entered the gallows, calm and unperturbed, on 11 May 1915 at Ambala Jail, Punjab at the tender age of twenty and became the youngest martyr in the history of India's freedom struggle. There are three plaques to commemorate Biswas - one in front of Muragachha School, Nadia; the other next to the Rabindra Bhavan auditorium at Krishnanagar and the third at Madame Tetsu-cong-Hiochi's garden in Tokyo. Rash Behari Bose embedded the last one in memory of his young disciple.
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- Indian independence movement
- Indian National Army
- Arzi Hukumate Azad Hind
- Revolutionary movement for Indian independence
Categories: 1895 births | 1915 deaths | People from Kolkata | Indian activists | Indian independence movement | Revolutionary movement for Indian independence | Indian revolutionaries | Indian independence activists | People executed by hanging | People executed under the Saxe-Coburgs | 20th century executions by the United Kingdom
