725. Sisir Kumar Guha, 726. Sisir Kumar Ghose (1840-1911)

Sisir Kumar Guha remained underground after failure to attempt murder of District Magistrate Alan. After seven years he was jailed for one year for another reason. He died when he was intern in his own village.

Sisir Kumar Ghosh (1840–1911) was a noted Indian journalist, founder of the Amrita Bazar Patrika, a noted Bengali language newspaper in 1868 and a freedom fighter from Bengal. He was born in Jessore.

He was a reporter of Hindu Patriot news paper and wrote against imposition of taxes in indigo cultivation in 1859-60. He mentioned the indigo revolution as the first revolution of Bengal. A court case started against him and some other persons in 1868.He placed demand for Parliamentary Rule in India in 1870. He opposed Dramatic Performance Act, Press Act, Arms Act etc. He retired from Politics and news Paper in 1878.  

He was one of the founding members of the India League. He was also a Vaishnavite, remembered for writings on mystic-saint Lord Chaitanya, and penning a book on him titled Lord Gauranga or Salvation for All in 1897.

He was one of the first batch of students who passed in the first entrance examination of the Calcutta University in 1857.

Sisir Ghose lived most of the time in Santiniketan, West Bengal, where he was a Professor of English, an authority on the writings of Rabindranath Tagore and a world-renowned scholar of mysticism.