Jatindranath Das ( born Jatindra Nath Das ; October 27, 1904 - September 13, 1929 ) - Indian revolutionary , member of the Indian Independence Movement . Best known for having died in Lahore prison 63 days after the start of his hunger strike.
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Biography
Born in 1904 in Calcutta . As a teenager, he joined the Bengal revolutionary organization Anushilan-Samiti. In 1921 he participated in the non-cooperation movement of Mahatma Gandhi . In November 1925, as a student at Vidyasagar College in Calcutta, Jatindranath was arrested for political activity and placed in the Maimansingh Central Prison. At the time of imprisonment, he went on a hunger strike as a protest against ill-treatment of political prisoners (he stopped the hunger strike after 20 days). After his release, he participated in various revolutionary movements in other parts of the country. On June 14, 1929 he was arrested for revolutionary activity and placed in a prison in the city of Lahore .
While in prison, Jatindranath, along with several fighters for the revolution, went on hunger strike, demanding equal conditions for the detention of Indian and English prisoners in prisons in British India. The memorial hunger strike began on July 13, 1929 and lasted 63 days [1] . The prison authorities tried to force-feed Jatindranath and other freedom fighters, beat them and even refused access to drinking water [2] . However, the revolutionary refused food. The prison committee recommended his release, but the government rejected the offer, agreeing to release Das only on bail. The prisoner died on September 13, 1929 [3] . When his body was transported by train from Lahore to Calcutta, people rushed to each station to pay tribute to the martyr. In Calcutta, when the body was transported to the cremation site, a 2-mile-long procession stretched behind the coffin [4] . Das's hunger strike was a turning point in the fight against illegal detention [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Heroes of Anti Imperialist (British) Movement Archived June 16, 2013 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Dr. Premdatta Verma, Punjab University Weekly Bulletin , 19 September 1964
- ↑ Indian Post article
- ↑ Gateway for India article
- ↑ [ Durba ] (April 4–5, 2003). "[ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/Ghosh.doc Britain's Global War on Terrorism: containing political violence and insurgency in the interwar years]" (doc) in How Empire Mattered: Imperial Structures and Globalization in the Era of British Imperialism .. Retrieved 2007-04-08 .