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         Bhupendranath Datta: Younger                          Sarat Chandra Bose was the
         brother of Swami Vivekananda                         strength of his brother Netaji

         who became a revolutionary to                            Subhash Chandra Bose
                    fight the British
                                                                 idely considered as
          amous revolutionary                               Wthe troubleshooter for
      Fand sociologist                                      Netaji Subhash Chandra
       Bhupendranath Datta                                  Bose, Sarat Chandra Bose
       was born on 4 September                              believed in non-violent
       1880 in Kolkata. He was                              values. It is said that Sarat
       the younger brother of                               Chandra Bose's steadfast
       Swami Vivekananda and a                              support for Subhash
       follower of Brahmo Samaj.                            Chandra Bose helped him
       In his youth, he joined the                          to move forward and he        Born: 6th September
       revolutionary movement in      Born: 4 September     could reach such a height.      1889, Died: 20th
       1902 to fight British rule,      1880, Death: 25     Sarat Chandra Bose was           February 1950
       which was spearheaded by         December 1961       born on September 6, 1889,
       Pramathanath Mitra. During this period he became     in Cuttack, Odisha. He was the elder brother of
       a close associate of Aurobindo and Barindra          Subhas Chandra Bose. After completing his studies
       Ghosh.  In 1906, he became the editor of the Bengali   in law in 1911 he sailed off to England. Under the
       newspaper Yugantar, which was the mouthpiece         guidance of the great Nripendra Nath Sircar, Sarat
       of the revolutionaries in Bengal. In 1907, Datta was   Chandra achieved great fame as a barrister and after
       arrested by the British police on charges of sedition   coming back to India, he started his law practice.
       and sentenced to one year's imprisonment. In July    However, later he left the practice and joined the
       1908, a few days after his release from prison, he   Civil Disobedience Movement. The report of the then
       went to America for further studies. However, he     Home Department of India described him as "the
       could not remain isolated from the cause of India's   strength of his brother Subhas Chandra Bose and
       independence and joined Ghadar Party  which was      the financier of the Civil Disobedience Movement in
       working for Indian independence. During the First    Calcutta". He established a news agency called the
       World War, Bhupendranath went to Germany where       'Orient Press Agency' in 1929 and in the 1940s he
       he became active in revolutionary and political      started running the newspaper "The Nation". After
       activities to fight for the independence of India.   a few years, Sarat Chandra Bose joined politics and
       In 1916 he became the secretary of the Indian        held several positions. He believed that there is
       Independence Committee in Berlin. At the Indian      nothing that is morally wrong and politically correct.
       National Congress annual convention held in Karachi   This remained his guiding principle throughout
       in 1930, he proposed a set of fundamental rights     his life. Sarat Chandra Bose was the first person
       for the Indian farmers, which was later accepted     who opposed the partition of Bengal and Punjab.
       by the Congress Committee. He also presided over     He continued to oppose partition, both before and
       two annual conferences of the All India Trade Union   after the publication of the Mountbatten Plan. On
       Congress. Bhupendranath was arrested several         this issue, he left Congress in January 1947 and
       times by the British police for his revolutionary and   started a protest movement in February 1947. Sarat
       political activities. He also ardently worked for the   Chandra advocated the setting up of a regional
       cause of social upliftment. He worked tirelessly to   organization with India, Pakistan, Nepal, Burma,
       gain respect for the working class. He vehemently    and Ceylon as its constituent. He stood for the
       opposed the caste system, untouchability,            unity of Asia's south-eastern nations as well. In
       discrimination, and atrocities against women in      August 1947, Sarat Chandra Bose also formed the
       Hindu society. He authored many books on Indian      Socialist Republican Party and in 1949 formed the
       society and culture. He also penned a book on his    United Socialist Organization, which called upon all
       elder brother Swami Vivekananda which became         the socialist forces of the country to come on one
       very popular. He breathed his last on                platform.  Sarat Chandra Bose was a true nationalist.
       25 December 1961.                                    He kept on trying to prevent the Partition till the end
                                                            in various ways. He died on 20 February 1950
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