Barindra Kumar Ghosh was an Indian revolutionary freedom fighter and journalist. He was a founding member of the Bengali weekly Jugantar, which later turned into a revolutionary group against British rule in India. Sri Aurobindo, his elder brother, was a great Indian philosopher, yoga guru, Maharishi, poet and Indian nationalist.
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Barindra Kumar Ghosh was born on Sunday, January 5, 1880, in Upper Norwood, London, England (he died aged 79). His zodiac sign is Capricorn. He received his initial schooling from a local school in Deoghar, Jharkhand. In 1901, he joined Patna College.
appearance
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
His father’s name was Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh and he was a physician and surgeon. His mother’s name was Swarnarata. He has three brothers and one sister. He is the youngest of five siblings. His parents had a total of five sons and one daughter. One of his brothers died in childhood.
(Background, from left) Benoybhushan (12 years), Dr KD Ghose (35 years), Manmohan (10 years) Foreground (from left) Sarojini (3 years), Swarnalata (27 years), Aurobindo (7 years)
His eldest brother’s name is Benoy Bhushan. His second brother, Manmohan Ghose, is an Indian poet.
Manmohan Ghosh, brother of Balindra Kumar Ghosh
His third brother was Sri Aurobindo, a great Indian philosopher, yoga master, Maharishi, poet and nationalist.
Sri Aurobindo, brother of Barindra Kumar Ghosh
He has a sister named Sarojini Ghosh.
wife and children
In 1933, he married Sailaja Dutta, a widow from a prominent family.
early life
Barindra Kumar Ghosh’s ancestors hailed from Kangar village in Hooghly district of West Bengal. He is the grandson of Indian social reformer “Rajnarayan Basu”. Basu is a follower of Brahmanism. His mother suffered from mental illness since 1873. His father, Dr Krishnadhan Ghosh, decided to move to England with his family in late 1878 to give his children a European education and to provide psychological treatment to his pregnant wife. Soon, Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh set sail and landed in England in January 1879 with his pregnant wife, three sons and a daughter. According to some media sources,
He brought his sons to England because he wanted them to “receive a thoroughly European education.” He left his sons with an English clergyman and his wife Mr. and Mrs. DeRuyter in Manchester, who was then cared for by Dr. Matthew, a London physician.
In 1880, Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh left his wife and children in England to serve again in India. However, in the same year, Barindra Kumar Ghosh’s mother Swarnalata returned to India with her daughter Sarojini and newborn Barindra Kumar Ghosh. Swarnarata became mentally unstable and Dr. Ghosh decided not to live with her anymore. He left her and started living alone in Khulna, Bangladesh. By 1880, Swarnarata was completely mad, by which time she was living with Barindra Kumar and her daughter Sarojini in the village of Rohini in Bengal. For ten years, Balendra Kumar lived with his insane mother. His childhood was not easy. His mother often tied him to the bed at night. She also often beat his sister Sarojini when she had fits. Dr Ghosh took Sarojini from her mother but Swarnalata denied possessing Barindra Kumar Ghosh. Later, his father managed to steal him from Swarnalata and took the children to Calcutta, where he gave the two children to a woman they called Ranga Ma take care of. Dr. Ghosh began drinking heavily due to his loneliness. In 1893, Dr. Ghosh died and his two children were brought to Deoghar from Ranga Ma by their uncle “Jogindranath”. Barindra Nath received his school education in Deoghar. One of his school teachers “Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar” was a great patriot who influenced his patriotism. Later, Barindra Nath was introduced to his brothers Sri Aurobindo and Manmohan Ghosh by his uncle. His brother subsequently returned from England. Aurobindo often came to Deoghar during puja holidays. Aurobindo was educated at Cambridge, and growing up, Balindra Kumar, who enjoyed interacting with his brother, was attracted to Aurobindo’s revolutionary ideas against British rule in India. Barindra Kumar Ghosh was admitted to Patna College in 1901, where his second brother Manmohan Ghosh was working as an English professor. Manmohan Ghosh was also a great poet and scholar of English literature. He also taught at Dhaka University. Barindra Kumar Ghosh lived with his three brothers for some time. Once, he opened a tea stall opposite Patna College to earn some income and named it,
B. Ghose’s Tea Stall – half an Anna cup, creamy and rich. ”
Barindra Ghosh was earning a good income from his tea stall, but a sudden outbreak of plague caused him to shut down his business in Patna. Soon he started living in southern India with his brother Sri Aurobindo. There he read and wrote books of poetry and enjoyed playing the Eragon. In his spare time, he also enjoys gardening and bird hunting. From Sri Aurobindo, the history books that Balindra Kumar liked to read were Burke’s “The French Revolution”, Ranade’s “The Rise of the Maratha Regime” and William Digby’s “The French Revolution”. Prosperous British India. During his stay in Bombay, he often sat and chatted with Maharashtrian friends who were involved in the secret revolutionary freedom struggle against British rule in India.
revolutionary activities
In 1902, he returned to Calcutta and started forming a revolutionary group with his companion Jatindranath Banerjee. In 1906, he established his own publishing house and a Bengali weekly called “Jugantar”. Jugantar was part of the Anushilan Samiti, a group that attempted to form a revolutionary army in India against the British Empire. Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Jatindranath Mukherjee are responsible for recruiting new people in the Jugantar organization. Another organization ‘Maniktala Organization’ was formed under the leadership of Anushilan Samiti to manufacture bombs and collect weapons for the new revolutionary freedom fighters in Maniktala, Kolkata . Shortly after Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki attempted to assassinate British magistrate Douglas Kingsford on April 30, 1908, the British government strictly attempted Arrest of Indian revolutionaries followed by Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Aurobindo Ghosh and many of their companions were taken into police custody on May 2, 1908 Barindra ·Kumar Ghosh and Ulaskar Datta were sentenced to death. But later, the sentence was changed from death to life imprisonment. He was arrested in connection with the Alipore blast case. In 1909, he was deported to a cell in Andaman along with his companion Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das.
release
In 1920, the government granted amnesty to some prisoners and Barindra Kumar Ghosh was released from his cell. Soon he was back in Calcutta.
In 1908, Barindra Kumar Ghosh posed as a prisoner awaiting trial
literature
After his release from prison, he wrote a book titled My Exile Story – Twelve Years in the Andaman, in which he described his journey in prison. He started writing books and joined journalism. Later, he gave up journalism and started a new monastery in Calcutta. In 1923, he went to Sri Aurobindo’s residence in Pondicherry and devoted himself to spiritualism. In 1929, he returned to Calcutta again and started working in journalism. In 1933, he founded an English weekly called “India Dawn”. He also collaborated with the “Statesman” newspaper. In 1950, he was appointed editor of Dainik Basumati. He has authored books such as “Dvipantarer Banshi”, “Pather Ingit”, “Amar Atmakatha”, “Agnijug”, “Rishi Rajnarayan”, “My Exile Story” and “Sri Aurobindo”. Other books are “Upendra Nath Bandyopadhyaya, Nirbasiter Atmakatha, Calcutta (1945)” and “RC Majumdar, History of the Indian Freedom Movement, II, Calcutta (1963)”.
Cover of the book My Exile Story by Barindra Kumar Ghosh
Facts/Trivia
- In Vadodara, Barindra Kumar Ghosh received formal military training during his schooling.
- Barindra Kumar Ghosh reportedly tried to break the jail’s iron bars while he was being detained in Alipore jail.
- On page 7 of his book My Exile Story, he explains the physical torture that Indian revolutionaries faced in their cells. He wrote,
However, despite the description of inhuman treatment, there are moments of bursts of wit and humor, “What an interesting sight we must have been presented to at that time! A wooden ticket hung from an iron ring around the neck like a bull It’s like a bell around the neck, and the shackles are tied to the legs…”
He goes on to write about the abuses by the British authorities, jailers, supervisors, wardens and security guards, Barindra Kumar briefly explains the food provided to the prisoners. He wrote that “rice, dal and kachu leaves” were the only foods he ate for twelve years. He further explained the mental instability of prisoners. He said,
Furthermore, the lack of human contact, companionship and conversation reduced some prisoners to savage beasts. Some even indulge in sexual perversions, while many are mentally unstable. “
On page 131 of the book, he talks about the suicidal tendencies of prisoners in the prison as a last resort for prisoners to escape from their cells. He wrote,
It would have been insane for any human being, even under ordinary circumstances, let alone a prisoner, to be hunted and humiliated like this twenty-four hours a day. It is inevitable that many people try to find relief through suicide. Only those whose hearts have turned to stone can bury their pain and count the days with hope for the future. “
- Barindra Kumar Ghosh was a follower of Sakaria Swami.
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