Surya Sen
Indian revolutionary
Died when: 39 years 296 days (477 months)Star Sign: Aries
Surya Sen, also called Surya Kumar Sen (22 March 1894 – 12 January 1934), was an Indian revolutionary who was influential in the Indian independence movement against British rule in India and was best known for leading the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid.
Sen was a school teacher by profession and was popularly known as Master Da ("da" is an honorific suffix in Bengali language).
He was influenced by the nationalist ideals in 1916 while he was a student of B.A. in Berhampore College (Now Krishnath College).
In 1918, he was selected as president of the Indian National Congress's Chittagong branch.Sen was known for recruiting a group of young and passionate revolutionaries known as the Chittagong group.
The group included Ananta Singh, Ganesh Ghosh and Lokenath Bal, and fought against the British stationed in Chittagong.He was an active participant in the Non-co-operation movement and was later arrested and imprisoned for 2 years from 1926 to 1928 for his revolutionary activities.
A brilliant and inspirational organiser, Sen was fond of saying "Humanism is a special virtue of a revolutionary." After the Chittagong raid in 1930 and a fierce battle where over 80 British Indian Army soldiers and 12 revolutionaries were killed, Sen and other surviving revolutionaries dispersed into small groups and hid in neighbouring villages, launching raids on government personnel and property.
Sen was arrested on 16 February 1933, tried and was hanged on 12 January 1934.Many of his fellow revolutionaries were also caught and sentenced to long periods of imprisonment.
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