Thursday, May 29, 2014

474. Bireshwar Basu (1291-1352), 475. Buddha Saha

Breshwar Basu was born in Midnapore. While he was a professor of Sanskrit in Krishnanagar College he gave up the service at the call of Gandhiji and joined  Freedom movement.He courted arrests many times for joining civil disobedience movement.. Once he performed self Satyagraha.

Buddhu Saha was a hero of  the Fakir Bidroha. (The Sannyasi Rebellion or Sannyasi Revolt (Bengali: সন্ন্যাসী বিদ্রোহ, The Monks' Rebellion) were the activities of sannyasis and fakirs (Hindu and Muslim ascetics, respectively) inBengal, India in the late 18th century. It is also known as the Fakir-Sannyasi Rebellion (ফকির-সন্ন্যাসী বিদ্রোহ) which took place around Murshidabad and Baikunthupur forests ofJalpaiguri. Historians have not only debated what events constitute the rebellion, but have also varied on the significance of the rebellion in Indian history. While some refer to it as an early war for India's independence from foreign rule, since the right to collect tax had been given to the British East India Company after the Battle of Plassey in 1757, others categorize it as acts of violent banditry following the depopulation of the province, post the Bengal famine of 1770). He kept rising of the flag of fakir Biroha in the forest area of bagura.

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