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Chittaranjan Das

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Bengali lawyer, politician, author and leader of the Bengali Swaraj Party (1870-1925)

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Works
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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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Type
Character
Country
DE
Active from
1969

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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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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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