Monday, July 21, 2014

609. Jatindralochan Mitra (1895-1968), 610. Jatish Guha

Jatindralochan Mitra was born in Calcutta. He joined Anushilan Samity at an early age. He participated in the plan of Bagha Jatin (1915). The revolutionaries prepared a plan of Independence of India in 1913 and he was the maker and inventor of this plan.He conducted  the workshop of the arms producing and repairing factory of the revolutionaries. He was arrested (19114) with two pistols made of Rada Co. which he wanted to steal in 1915 when he was a student of sibpur Engineering College. He participated in the historical hunger strike in Midnapore Jail.He was released in 1920 but had to remain intern for many years. Later he joined in Non-Cooperation movement launched by Gandhiji in 1921.


Jatish Guha was born in Dhaka. he was a lawyer in Calcutta Court and was a revolutionary. Later he joined Forward Bloc. By 1934, most of the youth of resurgent Bengal was behind bars.No one of the calibre of of a leader was free. The youth power of Bengal had become stagnant and immobile. However, there were some exceptions, such as Jatish Guha, Sukumar Ghosh, Madhu Banerjee who had escaped after Deoghog incident. When Subhas Bose was inter in Calcutta, he helped him to escape from India. He was arrested in1942 and was in Delhi Jail. He died there due to extreme repression.  


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