SADHANA IN PRISON -I   We saw in the previous chapter that during the months of march and April 1908 - especially April - an atmosphere of tension and crisis was building up, the known parties to the undeclared war being the Moderates, the alien bureaucracy and the Nationalists. The Moderates had their Convention and their new Congress Constitution, the bureaucracy were paring their nails to come to closer grips with the Nationalists so as to be able to liquidate them, and the underground revolut

Bagha Jatin (Bāghā Jatin, lit: Tiger Jatin), born Jatindranath Mukherjee  (7 December 1879 – 10 September 1915) was an Bengali revolutionary philosopher against British rule. He was the principal leader of the Yugantar party that was the central association of revolutionaries in Bengal. Having personally met the German Crown-Prince in Calcutta shortly before World War I, he obtained the promise of arms and ammunition from Germany; as such, he was responsi

Orissa Review   Bagha Jatin : An Unsung Hero   Dr. Rup Narayan Das   It is an irony of history that the supreme sacrifice made by Jatin Mukherjee or Bagha Jatin, as he is popularly known, is little known outside Bengal and Orissa, although there is no dearth of well documented historical record in this regard. Much before India achieved Independence in 1947, there was an attempt under the leadership of Jatin Mukherjee, M.N. Roy, et al, in 1915 during the First World War to attain Independence through armed insurrection in cooperation with Germany. Although, the initiative did not fructify, the efforts deserve to be recalled and given due importance in the p