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''' Bhavani Prasad Bhattacharyya ''' (10 June 1914 – 3 February 1935) was an Indian revolutionary and member of the [[Bengal Volunteers]] who carried out assassinations against British colonial officials in an attempt to secure Indian independence.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1183835/ |title=Emperor vs Bhawani Prosad Bhattacharjee And ors on 3 December 1934 |access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref>


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''' Bhavani Prasad Bhattacharyya ''' (23th August 1914 – 03 rd February 1935) was an Indian revolutionary and member of the [[Bengal Volunteers]] who carried out assassinations against British colonial officials in an attempt to secure Indian independence.
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1183835 /|title= Emperor vs Bhawani Prosad Bhattacharjee And ors on 3 December, 1934|access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref>
== Family ==
== Family ==
Bhavani prasad Bhattacharyya was born in Joydevpur [[Dhaka]] in 1914. His father was Basanta Kumar Bhattacharyya. He joined the Bengal Volunteers, a revolutionary organisation of [[British India]] at an early age. <ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol I|first=Subodhchandra Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=297}}</ref>
Bhavani prasad Bhattacharyya was born in Joydevpur, Gazipur district, [[Dhaka]] in 1914. His father was Basanta Kumar Bhattacharyya and mother, Damayanti Devi. He joined the Bengal Volunteers, a revolutionary organisation of [[British India]] at an early age.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali) |last=Vol I |first=Subodhchandra Sengupta & Anjali Basu |publisher=Sahitya Sansad |year=2002 |isbn=81-85626-65-0 |location=Kolkata |pages=297}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Somraj Bose |script-title=bn:অন্বেষন |volume=I |publisher=Soumen Jana |year=2013 |location=Kolkata}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite book|title= অন্বেষন |last=সোমরাজ বোস |first=VOL.I|publisher=Soumen Jana |year=2013|access-date=January11, 2022
|location=Kolkata}}</ref>


== Revolutionary activities ==
== Revolutionary activities ==
===Assassination attempt of John Anderson and imprisonment===
===Assassination attempt of John Anderson ===
Bhabani Prasad Bhattacharya, travelled to [[Darjeeling]] with Ujjwala Majumder, Sukumar Ghosh, Ravi Banerjee, and some other revolutionary activists to assassinate Governor [[John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley|John Anderson]]; he hid his weapon in a [[harmonium]] carried by Ujjwala Majumder. Ujjwala entered a hotel and posed as a married couple with Manoranjan Banerjee. On May 6, 1934, Bhavani Prasad Bhattacharya shot the governor at the Darjeeling [[Lebong]] Racecourse, but only inflicted minor injuries. He was caught and later hanged. Ujjwala Majumdar and Manoranjan Banerjee fled to Calcutta in disguise and took refuge in Sovarani Dutt's house.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ghosh|first=Durba|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y74pDwAAQBAJ|title=Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947|date=2017-07-20|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-18666-8|pages=173|language=en}}</ref> Police arrested them on May 18, 1934.<ref name="b">{{cite book |last1=Guha |first1=Arun Chandra |title=Indias Struggle Quarter of Century 1921 to 1946 Part I |publisher=Publications Division [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Ministry of Information & Broadcasting]] |isbn=978-81-230-2274-1 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Indias_Struggle_Quarter_of_Century_1921t/7jaaDQAAQBAJ?hl=en |language=en}}</ref> .<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chowdhury|first=Chinmoy|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.265135|title=Swadhinata Andolone Sashastra Biplabi Nari [স্বাধীনতা আন্দোলনে সশস্ত্র বিপ্লবী নারী]|publisher=Dey's Publishing|year=1958|location=Kolkata|pages=105|language=bn}}</ref>Sukumar Ghosh and Ujjwala Majumder was sentenced to 14 years in prison and Bhabani Prasad was sentenced to death for expressing regret
Bhabani Prasad Bhattacharya, travelled to [[Darjeeling]] with [[Ujjwala Majumdar]], Sukumar Ghosh, Ravi Banerjee, and some other revolutionary activists to assassinate Governor [[John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley|John Anderson]]; he hid his weapon in a [[harmonium]] carried by Ujjwala Majumder. Ujjwala entered a hotel and posed as a married couple with Manoranjan Banerjee. On May 6, 1934, Bhavani Prasad Bhattacharya shot the governor at the Darjeeling [[Lebong]] Racecourse, but only inflicted minor injuries. He was caught and later hanged. Ujjwala Majumdar and Manoranjan Banerjee fled to Calcutta in disguise and took refuge in Sovarani Dutt's house.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ghosh |first=Durba |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y74pDwAAQBAJ |title=Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 |date=2017-07-20 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-18666-8 |pages=173 |language=en}}</ref> Police arrested them on May 18, 1934.<ref name="b">{{cite book |last1=Guha |first1=Arun Chandra |title=India's Struggle Quarter of Century, 1921 to 1946 Part I |publisher=Publications Division [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Ministry of Information & Broadcasting]] |isbn=978-81-230-2274-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jaaDQAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Chowdhury |first=Chinmoy |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.265135 |title=Swadhinata Andolone Sashastra Biplabi Nari [স্বাধীনতা আন্দোলনে সশস্ত্র বিপ্লবী নারী] |publisher=Dey's Publishing |year=1958 |location=Kolkata |pages=105 |language=bn}}</ref> Sukumar Ghosh and Ujjwala Majumder was sentenced to 14 years in prison and Bhabani Prasad was sentenced to death for expressing regret.

== Death==
He was hanged in Rajshahi Central Jail on February 3, 1935. After independence, there were demands from various quarters to change the name of the house. With that in mind, Anderson House was renamed Bhabani Bhaban in 1989. It is now the headquarters of the State Police of the Government of West Bengal.

==References==
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Latest revision as of 18:07, 6 August 2024

Bhavani Prasad Bhattacharyya
Bhavani Prasad Bhattacharyya
Born(1914-06-10)10 June 1914
Joydevpur, Dhaka, British India
Died3 February 1935(1935-02-03) (aged 20)
MovementIndian Freedom Movement

Bhavani Prasad Bhattacharyya (10 June 1914 – 3 February 1935) was an Indian revolutionary and member of the Bengal Volunteers who carried out assassinations against British colonial officials in an attempt to secure Indian independence.[1]

Family

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Bhavani prasad Bhattacharyya was born in Joydevpur, Gazipur district, Dhaka in 1914. His father was Basanta Kumar Bhattacharyya and mother, Damayanti Devi. He joined the Bengal Volunteers, a revolutionary organisation of British India at an early age.[2][3]

Revolutionary activities

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Assassination attempt of John Anderson

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Bhabani Prasad Bhattacharya, travelled to Darjeeling with Ujjwala Majumdar, Sukumar Ghosh, Ravi Banerjee, and some other revolutionary activists to assassinate Governor John Anderson; he hid his weapon in a harmonium carried by Ujjwala Majumder. Ujjwala entered a hotel and posed as a married couple with Manoranjan Banerjee. On May 6, 1934, Bhavani Prasad Bhattacharya shot the governor at the Darjeeling Lebong Racecourse, but only inflicted minor injuries. He was caught and later hanged. Ujjwala Majumdar and Manoranjan Banerjee fled to Calcutta in disguise and took refuge in Sovarani Dutt's house.[4] Police arrested them on May 18, 1934.[5][6] Sukumar Ghosh and Ujjwala Majumder was sentenced to 14 years in prison and Bhabani Prasad was sentenced to death for expressing regret.

Death

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He was hanged in Rajshahi Central Jail on February 3, 1935. After independence, there were demands from various quarters to change the name of the house. With that in mind, Anderson House was renamed Bhabani Bhaban in 1989. It is now the headquarters of the State Police of the Government of West Bengal.

References

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  1. ^ "Emperor vs Bhawani Prosad Bhattacharjee And ors on 3 December 1934". Retrieved October 28, 2021.
  2. ^ Vol I, Subodhchandra Sengupta & Anjali Basu (2002). Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali). Kolkata: Sahitya Sansad. p. 297. ISBN 81-85626-65-0.
  3. ^ Somraj Bose (2013). অন্বেষন. Vol. I. Kolkata: Soumen Jana.
  4. ^ Ghosh, Durba (2017-07-20). Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947. Cambridge University Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-1-107-18666-8.
  5. ^ Guha, Arun Chandra. India's Struggle Quarter of Century, 1921 to 1946 Part I. Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. ISBN 978-81-230-2274-1.
  6. ^ Chowdhury, Chinmoy (1958). Swadhinata Andolone Sashastra Biplabi Nari [স্বাধীনতা আন্দোলনে সশস্ত্র বিপ্লবী নারী] (in Bengali). Kolkata: Dey's Publishing. p. 105.
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