52. Ananda Kishore Majumdar (1882-1940)

Ananda Kishore was born in Mymensngh in 1882. Along with Hemendra Kishore Acharya, Mohini Shankar Roy and Ananda in their own capacity formed a secret organisation, "Sadhana samaj" . They came in contact with Jatindranath Mukherjee and Arabinda Ghosh and began preparing themselves for armed revolution in 1906. In his intiayive Suhrid Sangha, and Anushilan Dal merged together to form a new powerful organisation. But he was arrested in 1916 for participating in fund collection by dacoity, spying, and  murder of police officers. He was released in 1919. he was again arrested under Rule 3 and was confined to Berhampore jail till 1927.  He  took the charge of preparing and distributing of meals of of the 10thousands delegates in Congress Session of 1928. he was confined in Bauxa camp from 1930 to 1935. after beibg released be became the secretary of Mymensingh Jilla Congress Committee. He came to Calcutta for treatment as he was attacked by TB. but soon he died in 1940. 

"Banned Organizations (1906 – 1910)
            The Muzaffarpore outrage and the Alipore Conspiracy Trial opened the eyes of the authorities to the magnitude and distribu­tion of the revolutionary organizations in Bengal. The far-flung nature of the ramifications of the revolutionaries who were out to drive away the British through the use of arms could be gauged from the findings of some of the conspiracy trials that were started by the Government during the early stage of the movement.

Criminal cases were started against individuals or group of individuals for any particular overt act or for not a very clearly defined conspiracy which was regarded by the public as a multi­purpose measure based on racial arrogance, fear, vindictiveness and administrative inefficiency. Any way, they presented a partial picture of the revolutionary ideas and activities of Bengal and elsewhere.

Harvey Adamson, Home Member to the Government of India, while introducing a Bil1 in the Imperial Legislative Council for expeditious trials without jury, gave an outline of the secret associations, their aims and activities on December 12, 1908.

In the course of his speech he said that disloyal associations known as samitis and consisting of volunteers were first founded in 1902 but they did not come much into evidence till 1906. With the intensification of anti-British feeling there was a rapid expansion of such samitis particularly in the districts of East Bengal."

" Several associations and samities in Bengal were banned in Jan 1909 under sec 15 (b), e.g., the Suhrid Samity in Mymensingh, Anushilan in Dhaka, Swadeshi Sadhana Samaj in Mymensingh, Bandhab (Barisal) and Bratati Samity in Faridpur.'