Wednesday, April 10, 2013

1. Akhil Chandra Nandi ( 7.3.1907 - 16.12.1985)

Akhil Chandra Nandi was born in the District of Tripura of British India on 7.3.1907.He joined the freedom struggle in his teens.The women of Coomilla town joined the armed struggle by his active cooperation. He was imprisoned for a period of eight months in the charge of Assassination of the district Magistrate of Coomolla, Mr.Stevens (On 14 December 1931, Santi Ghose ((1916–1989), Indian nationalist who killed a British magistrate. Born on 22 November 1916 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Santi Ghose was the daughter of Debendranath Ghose, an ardent nationalist and professor of philosophy at Victoria College of Comilla in eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh). Santi Ghose was raised in a patriotic environment. One of the first few women to endorse militant activism, she participated in an armed revolutionary struggle and resorted to direct action against the British. She was a founding member of the Chhatri Sangha (Girl Students Association) in Comilla in 1931 and served as its secretary. In the wake of the civil disobedience movement under Mahatma Gandhi , Santi was deeply inspired by another teenager, Profullanandini Brahma, a student at Faizunnesa Girls' School in Comilla. Inspired by Profullanandini, Santi joined the Jugantar Party, a secret revolutionary organization founded 1906 in Bengal by nationalist men. She trained herself in various arts of self-defense with swords, clubs, and firearms.
 A young woman, who looks slightly older than her 16 years, her hair gathered in a knot at the nape, in a white cotton sari, looks ahead of her in a profile shot. She looks calm, with a soft expression in her eyes. She is Santi Ghosh, alias Ila Sen, from Comilla, “secretary of Chhatri Sangha”, who was convicted under the Indian Penal Code and Arms Act and sentenced to transportation for life on January 27, 1932, for killing the district magistrate of Comilla.)

and her revolutionary compatriot Suniti Chowdhury walked into the office of the British bureaucrat Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens, the district magistrate of Comilla, apparently to present a petition to arrange a swimming competition among their classmates. While Magistrate Stevens focused on the document, Ghose and Chowdhury drew out their automatic pistols—hidden under their shawls—and fired at and killed the magistrate. The attendant Indian orderly, although injured by the last bullet, caught the two girls.). He joined the then Communist Party of India in 1939. He was a social worker. He wrote the book "Biplabi Smriticharan". He married the teacher Shefali Nandi of Prat Memorial School of Calcutta.

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