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❦Pulin Behari Das
Revolutionary organizer in eastern Bengal
Founder-president of the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti and a major organizer of revolutionary politics in eastern Bengal.
Biography
Context
In the context of After the 1905 Partition of Bengal, Das helped organize young men through physical training, secret association, and revolutionary discipline. The Dhaka branch developed a wide network across eastern Bengal, placing it within the broader contest between colonial surveillance, constitutional politics, boycott, and armed resistance., Pulin Behari Das is recognized as Revolutionary organizer in eastern Bengal. Founder-president of the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti and a major organizer of revolutionary politics in eastern Bengal.
Contribution
Pulin Behari Das was the founder-president and principal organizer of the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti, established in 1906 as a militant anti-colonial organization rooted in the Swadeshi-era politics of eastern Bengal.
Impact
Das helped make Dhaka a major center of revolutionary organization, but the movement's growth also brought repression, arrests, detention, and fragmentation. His legacy belongs to the eastern Bengal strand of militant anti-colonial politics; the later 1930 Chittagong Armoury Raid is included as lineage and memory context, not as an action he personally led.
Timeline Placement
Pulin Behari Das appears in 2 linked timeline events, spanning 1905 - 1930.
First Appearance
1905
Latest Appearance
1930
Active Span
1905 - 1930
Linked Events
2
Legacy Summary
Das helped make Dhaka a major center of revolutionary organization, but the movement's growth also brought repression, arrests, detention, and fragmentation. His legacy belongs to the eastern Bengal strand of militant anti-colonial politics; the later 1930 Chittagong Armoury Raid is included as lineage and memory context, not as an action he personally led. This influence is reflected across 2 connected events.
References
Key sources for understanding this figure
A Case Study of Swadeshi Bengal
A classic study for the local dynamics of the Swadeshi upsurge and the way nationalist thought crystallized in Bengal.
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A History of Bangladesh
A synthetic history of Bangladesh from the long view through colonial encounters, East Pakistan, war, and independence.
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Amar Dekha Rajnitir Panchash Bochor
Abul Mansur Ahmad's political memoir spans anti-British politics, the Pakistan period, and the emergence of Bangladesh.
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And Swadeshi Movement in Bengal (1905)
Useful for trade, industry, agriculture, boycott politics, and the economic reach of the Swadeshi upsurge.
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Begum Rokeya
Banglapedia profile for Begum Rokeya; her reformist writings and feminist imagination are central to Bengali Muslim modernity.
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Bengali Muslim Literati and the Development of Muslim Community in Bengal
A research monograph on Bengali Muslim intellectual growth and community formation under colonial rule.
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