885. Haren Ghosh (1895-1947), 886. Harendranath Bhattacharya, 887. Harendranath Bhattacharya/ Chakraborty

Haren Ghosh was born in Jessore at his maternal uncle's house. He was a popular leader of congress in Howrah dist. He was the pioneer organiser  of musician's group in India and outside india. He was one of the promoter of Uday Sankar Roy for building his career. He collected money in different ways for Viswavarati when it was in financial stringency.Just before the winning of freedom he was murdered in a room of his own office at the famous shop on Dharmatola, namely Wasen Mollah owing to the disturbance of Communal riot.His full statue was erceted in Howrah Maidan. madeby the Howrah residents   as a remembrance.


Harendranath Bhattacharya was born in Kolkata. He participated in Tarakeshwar satyagraha and Salt Satyagraha(1930) and was jailed twice as a punishment. He died out of extreme beating by the police.


Harendranath Bhattacharya / Chakraborty was associated with Masterda. He was in charge of some resopnsible duties. After knowing the court order of Surya Sen to be hanged  he went to the Paltan Maidan where the Britrish soldiers were playing Cricket on 7.1.1934 and threw some bombs in the field . The other three young men of his group, made wounded some of them with bombs and revolver. Krishna Choudhury and he were hanged in Midnapore Central jail which accepted smiling.

882. Harekrishna Jana, 883. Harekrishna Bar, 884.Dr. Harekrekrushna Mahatab (1899-1987)

Harekrishna Jana was born in Midnapore. He participated in Civil disobedience Movement and Quit India movement. While he was in Kanthi Central Jail he was beaten to death by police.


Harekrishna Bar was born in Midanapore. He participated in Quit India movement. He died in his own village by the bullet of the Police.



Harekrushna Mahatab (21 November 1899 – 2 January 1987) was a leader of the Indian National Congress, a notable figure in the Indian independence movement and the Chief Minister of Odisha from 1946 to 1950 and again from 1956 to 1961. He was popularly known by the sobriquet Utkal Keshari

Early life

Harekrushna Mahtab was born at Agarpada village in Bhadrak district of Odisha. He was born to Krushna Charan Das and Tohapha Debi. After passing his matriculation examination from Bhadrak High School, he joined Ravenshaw College, Cuttack but left his studies in 1921 to join the independence movement.

Political career

In 1922, he was imprisoned and charged of sedition. He was the Chairman of Balasore District Board from 1924 to 1928. He became the member of Bihar and Odisha Council in 1924. He joined the Salt Satyagraha movement and was imprisoned again in 1930. He was elected as the General Officer Commanding of Congress Sevadal for the AICC session at Puri in 1932 and he was arrested when the party was banned. He participated in the movement against untouchability in 1934 and opened his ancestral temple to all for the first time in Odisha. Later, he started Gandhi Karma Mandir at Agarpada. He was the President of Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee from 1930 to 1931 and again in 1937. He was nominated to the Congress Working Committee by Subhas Chandra Bosein 1938 and continued till 1946 and again from 1946 to 1950. He was the President of State Peoples' Enquiry Committee in 1938 and recommended cancellation of Sanada of the rulers and merger of the erstwhile princely states with Odisha Province. He participated in the Quit India Movement in 1942 and was imprisoned from 1942 to 1945.

Mahatab was the first Chief Minister of Odisha from 23 April 1946 to 12 May 1950. He was the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1950 to 1952. He became the secretary general of the Congress Parliamentary Party in 1952. He was the Governor of Bombay from 1955 to 1956. After resigning from Governorship in 1956, he again became the Chief Minister of Odisha from 1956 to 1960. During his tenures as the Chief Minister, he played significant role in the merger and integration of former princely states, shifting of the capital from Cuttack to Bhubaneshwar and the sanction and construction of the multi-purpose Hirakud Dam Project. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1962 and became the vice-president of the Indian National Congress in 1966. In 1966, he resigned from the Congress and led the Odisha Jana Congress. He was elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly in 1967, 1971 and 1974. He was imprisoned in 1976 for protesting against the emergency.

Intellectual pursuits

He was the founder of the Prajatantra Prachar Samiti and started the weekly magazine Prajatantra in 1923 at Balasore, which later became the Daily Prajatantra. He was the chief editor of a monthly journal Jhankar since its inception. He received the Sahitya Academy award in 1983 for the third volume of his well-known work, Gaon Majlis.

Awards and honours

He was the President of Orissa Sahitya Academy and Sangit Natak Academy for a couple of terms. He received an honorary Doctorate degree from Andhra University, an honorary D.Litt. from Utkal University and an honorary Doctorate of Law from Sagar University.

881. Harekrishn a Konar (1915-1974)

Born on August 5, 1915, Comrade Harekrishna Konar passed away on July 23, 1974, at the early age of 59. This revolutionary fighter for freedom, became convinced that individual terrorism was futile, and Marxism-Leninism alone is the beacon light in the path of emancipation of the down-trodden throughout the world.

His was a life of total dedication – dedication to the cause of freedom, democracy and socialism.

At a very young age, in 1930, he was convicted for participation in the civil disobedience movement and later in 1932, convicted for revolutionary activities to overthrow the British Government and sent to the Cellular Jail in the Andamans.

It was during those days in the Andamans Jail that Comrade Harekrishna Konar came to accept Communism and became a member of the Communist Consolidation in the jail.

Released in 1938, when a mighty countrywide agitation forced the Government to release all those imprisoned in the Andamans, Comrade Harekrishna Konar plunged into the building of the revolutionary movement, the Communist Party and Kisan Sabha.

For years, he had been the General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha. His strident voice upholding the cause of the peasants and agricultural labourers and powerfully exposing the venomous character of the exploitation of the landlords had been heard within the protals of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and throughout the country.

During the short span of a few months when he was the Land and Land Revenu Minister in the United Front Government in West Bengal in 1967 and again in 1969, he showed the only way by which even the limited land reforms could be implemented – viz., by the peasants and agricultural laboureres organising themselves and implementing the reforms and not by depending on the bureaucracy.

As a member of the Central Executive Committee of the united Communist Party, he was among those who fought to the bitter end the revisionist leadership. In the years 1959-62, he was among the foremost who fought the crassest chauvinism of the dominant leadership on the Sino-Indian dispute. When events made it impossible to continue in that party, he had no hesitation in leaving that party and was one of the founders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He had continued to be a member of the Central Committee. He fought the Left-sectarian trend in the Party when it raised the banner of revolt, defended the Marxist-Leninist line of the Party, and preserved the unity and strength of the Party.

Everyone who came in contact with him would be struck by his remarkable versatility. He was an able speaker, keeping his audience spell-bound, debator, writer, Party organiser and leader of the masses. In 1948, when the Party was declared illegal, he evaded arrest and till 1952, organised the Party and mass activities from the underground. His contribution in the Central Committee meetings was great.

During his whole life, he passionately worked for developing the agrarian revolutionary movement.

He had been incarcerated in jail for long years, both by the British and by the Congress Governments. Long years of jail and underground life had undermined his health. And yet, he carried on normal Party activities with a zeal which younger men might envy.

879. Harish Chandra Sikdar (1881-19370, 880. Harihar Das Acharya (1878-971)

Harish Chandra  was born in Jessore. When Atmonnati samity was formed in 1897, he was one of the front ranking leader. This organisation used to perform revolutionary deeds during WWI. This Organisation participated in anti-partion of Bengal movement. He courted arrests many times for taking leadership in this organisation.






Acharya Harihar Das was a Gandhite. he was editor of "Samaj" patrika in 1922. He participated in Non-Cooperation  in 1920 and Salt Satyagraha in 1930. He was released in 1934 and participated in Padayatra with Gandhiji. He was a member of Gandhi Seva Sangha aand President of Harijan Seva Sangha. He served with his life risk within flood victims in 1936. He courted arrests in 1940 and 1942 for participating in civil disobedience movement. He was released in 1944. He was president in Basic Education Forum and in the conference of All India Sarboday Sangha in Wardha in 1960..

877. Hari Vishnu Kamath, 878. Harish Chandra Mukhopadhyay (1824-1861)

Hari Vishnu Kamath was born in Madras Presidency. He joined Indian Civil Service in 1930. As a officer he was straight forward and against present system. As a result he was always in conflict with the British Officers. When he wanted to join National Movement in 1937, Jawaharlal Nehru did not approve but Subhas Chandra Bose asked him to join Congress. Whence Subhas became his learned advisor and Political mentor. He joined Congress on 26th Jan 1936. He became personal secretary of Subhas Chandra Bose being elected as President of Congress in 1938. He was appointedas secretary of Parliamentary Coordination Committee. When in 1938 Subhas chandra formed a National planning Committee, he became its secretary and Jawaharlal its President. When in May 1939 sbhas chandra formed Forward Bloc he was appointed its Organising Secretary. He was jail with RI for one year when he worked against the decision of the war. He was again jailed in 1942. When Forward Bloc was declared illegal on 21st June 1942, he was arrested and detained without trial upto 1945. He became member of Constituent Assembly in 1946. He opposed special facilities to be given to the President and Prime Minister of Kashmir.He was a tremendous critic of Kashmir to be raised in Unitaed Nation. He was elected as an Independent candidate to the Loksabha in 1955. He was also elected as a member of PSP to the Loksabha in 1962 and 1967. He was a member of administrative Reform committee in1966. He went to Taiwon to enquire about Netaji's socalled death in Plane crash in Taihaku.


Harish Chandra Mukherjee (Bengali: হরিশ্চন্দ্র মুখোপাধ্যায়) (1824 – 1861), was an Indian journalist and patriot, who fought tooth and nail for the indigo cultivators (and against the indigo planters) and forced the government to bring about changes. He was a brave journalist and patriotic. He portrayed in his Hindoo Patriot Patrika the oppression caused to Indigo cultivators. He published regularly their wretched condition in Tattwabodhini Patrika He was a supporter of Indigo Rebellion (1859-62)  The essays written by him and dwarakanath gangopadhyay created enlightenment amongst the intellectuals . He had to suffer for supporting the Indigo cultivators. he became pennyless and died at an early age of 37 only.  

874. Haripada Bhowmik (Hatkata Haripada), 875.Haripada Mahajan, 876. Haripada Maity

Dhirendranath Bhowmik was the father of Haripada Bhowmik. At the call of Netaji he joined in the advance party of INA and went to Rangoon via singapore and took military training. He was posted as Lieutenant   He was then appointed as a front  line defender in Assam front.When he had gone to collect information from the enemy's camp he became wounded by opponent's bomb and his left hand was hanging from his body. In extreme pain he asked his comrade, Sushil Kastagir,  to kill him .Though he recovered by losing one of his hand in th base hospital. He became  known as Hatkata Haripada.


Haripada Mahajan was born in Chittagong. He was an associates of Masterda . He remained underground for 8 months after the Chittagong Armoury Raid. he reached Burma on foot through Khakyar.He suffered a lot and ultimately died.


Haripada Maity was born in Midnapore. He died in police bullet during attacking of Bhagabanpur Thana in Quit India movement.

871. Haripada Chattopadhyay (1897-1967), 872. Haripada Bal, Tegra, 873. Haripada Bharati (!922-1982)

Haripada chattopadhyay was born in Nadia. He passed M.Sc. in the 1st Class. He suffered prison life for some terms for participating in Non-Cooperation movement, Civil disobedience movement and Quit India Movement. He was one of the founder of Coomillah Abhoy Ashram and was an worker there. He was member of Legislative assembly from 1937-1951. Then he was a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. in 1962 and 1967 he waselected as an independent candidate in the Loksabha. He was renowned for an experienced Parliamentarian and Good speaker.


Haripada Bal, tegra was born in Chittagong. He participated in Chittagong Armoury Raid on 18.4.1930. He massacred the British Soldiers while he was in underground in Jallalabad Hills. In this battle he and 9 others became martyr. At the time of death he was 13 years old. Loknath, one of the eminent fighter was his elder brother.


Haripada Bharati was born in Jessore. He was a  Professor in different colleges.He was famous for his eloquent speech . He had undergone jail many times for participating in Freedom movement. He was also detained when Indira Gandhi declared Emergency. He was attache from the very beginning with Janata Dal when it was formed.