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Chittaranjan Das
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Chittaranjan Das was a male Bengali barrister, writer, politician, and freedom fighter who held citizenship in the British Raj. Born in Bikrampur on November 5, 1870, he was educated at Presidency University. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and was married to Basanti Devi. Das died on June 16, 1925.
He wrote in Bangla, the language he also spoke. His literary output includes 74 works, with notable titles such as *Life of Thoughts*, *Studies in medieval religion and literature of Orissa*, *Purna Eakatara Yoga*, *Gandhi and modern times*, and *Mā nishāda*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 74
Top works
- Life of Thoughts
- Studies in medieval religion and literature of Orissa
- Purna Eakatara Yoga
- Gandhi and modern times
- Mā nishāda
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 29,100x
- Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-Based Localization
· 2017 · cited 18,609x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- Spintronics: Fundamentals and applications
· 2004 · cited 10,555x
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Quotes
- “We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.”
- “Gentlemen, when I consider the objections put forward to the grant of self-government I can hardly keep my patience. What is it that they say? They say that we are not educated enough to get self-government. My answer is: whose fault is it? For the last 150 years you have been governing this country and yet you have not succeeded in educating the people of this country to such an extent that they may be fit for governing themselves.”
- “Swaraj means that we must live within ourselves, we must be self-contained. I tell you we are great slaves to-day. Our economic slavery is greater than our political slavery… From Manchester comes 60 crores rupees worth of cloth every year. You will not have to pay these 60 crores rupees which go out of India. If a householder works by Charkha for one o two hours a day at the end of the year he will find himself with all the necessaries of his family.”
- “We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1870-11-05 ) 5 November 1870, Calcutta , Bengal, British India
- Died
- 16 June 1925 (1925-06-16) (aged 54), Darjeeling , Bengal, British India
- Other name
- Deshbandhu
- Alma mater
- Middle Temple
- Occupations
- Freedom fighter, politician, lawyer , educationist, author, poet
- Political party
- Indian National Congress (Before 1923) Swaraj Party (1923–1925)
- Movement
- Anushilan Samiti , Indian Independence movement
- Spouse
- Basanti Devi
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- British Raj
- Place of birth
- Bikrampur
- Spouse
- Basanti Devi
- Occupation
- poet
- Educated at
- Presidency University
- Political party
- Indian National Congress
- Languages spoken
- Bangla
- Native language
- Bangla
- Image
- Chittaranjan Das 3.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Chittaranjan Das (5 November 1870 – 16 June 1925), popularly called Deshbandhu (friend of the country), was a Bengali freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian Independence Movement and mentor of Subhas Chandra Bose. He was the founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in undivided Bengal during the period of British Colonial rule in India. His name is abbreviated as C. R. Das. He was closely associated with a number of literary societies and wrote poems, apart from numerous articles and essays.
Early life
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