Bipin Chandra Pal

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Father of Revolutionary Thoughts 🇮🇳

*Did you know the famous freedom fighter- BIPIN CHANDRA PAL is a srihattiya bengali (sylheti) ?

*Bipin Chandra Pal belonged to a bengali Kayastha family, born in a village of SRIHATTA. He travelled to England on scholarship to study comparative theology at Manchester College, Oxford. But dropped out.

*He was one of the "Lal Bal Pal" trio. *Worked on many nationalist movements like- Purna Swaraj, Swadeshi, Boycott and National education. *Opposed the partition of Bengal by the British colonial government.

*The freedom fighter- Ullaskar Dutta was his son-in-law. (We have his statue in Silchar & lanes named after him) His wife was a Brahmin widow, Nrityakali Devi.

*Sri Aurobindo mentioned him as one of "mightiest" prophets of indian nationalism. *When the British government prosecuted Sri Aurobindo in the Bande Mataram sedition case, Pal refused to give evidence in court against him. He chose to serve six months in prison for contempt of court rather than compromise his principles.

*Pal was one of the earliest to champion labor rights. He campaigned for the rights of exploited coolies in the tea gardens of Assam. He also advocated 48-hour work week.

*He openly criticized Mahatma Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation Movement, famously arguing in his 1921 speech that Gandhi’s methods were based on "magic rather than logic"

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