Do you know SURYA SEN? Also known as Master Da ,was born o…

The suppression of peasants, labors, and incidents like the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the partition of Bengal by the British government transformed Surya Sen into a nationalist revolutionary.

He was heavily inspired by the Bolshevik revolution.
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..Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, and Surya Sen became a serious threat to the colonial government.

By now the revolutionary organizations like Jugantar Party and Anushilan Samiti were working with the INC for the betterment of the Indians. Surya Sen didn’t agree on this.

Mahatma Gandhi's Non-Cooperation movement gained quite momentum and many people supported it but when Gandhi called it out bcoz of the Chauri Chaura incident,
many people didn’t agree with his decision and later decided to launch their own revolution through violence.

When the movement was called off there was a significant rise in revolutionary activities. Even those who first agreed and supported the INC and Gandhji now decided to adopt the path of revolution to attain 'Swaraj'.

Men like Alluri Sitaram Raju, Ram Prasad Bismil, etc were some men who now took the leadership into their own hand. One of them was Master Da i.e. Surya Sen who now also wanted to liberate Indians from the clutches of the colonial rule by any means.

Inspired by the Russian Revolution of 1917, Surya sen decided to launch a similar revolution in India against the British government.

In 1929 Master Da decided to train the youth in the field of Armament technology by forming 'Hindustan Republican Army'.

The teenagers who joined the revolution under Surya sen strongly believed in individual bravery and didn’t even fear death. Some of the members were Anant Singh, Ambika Chakraborty, Ganesh Ghosh, etc.

The main objectives of this organization was to destroy British clubs,hotels,cinemas, Govt buildings to disrupt the electricity and communication and blow off the railway lines.On April 1930 Master Da and his army,which was full of teenagers,declared war against the British Rule.

Under the leadership of Surya sen, his associates raided the Chittagong Armoury on 18 April 1930. His Hindustan Republican Army declared independence from British rule and also formed a provisional government.

With the chant of 'Inquilab Zindabad' and 'Down with Imperialism' Surya Sen declared himself as the President of the Provisional Government.

The revolutionaries wanted to steal ammunition and machine guns from the armoury but weren’t able to find these things in the armoury and because of this the movement suffered a fatal blow. The revolutionaries decided to move towards the Chittagong hills for safety.

On 22 August at the hills of Jalalabad, a fierce battle took place between the young sons of Mother India and the British army. In this engagement 12 revolutionaries attained martyrdom but the British lost their 80 soldiers too.

The positive outcome of this encounter was that their leader i.e. Surya sen was able to escape with some of his followers and continued his struggle against the British through guerrilla warfare.

This act of Surya sen shook British Raj and due to this, British government decided to crush the revolutionaries by any means.But one day Netra Sen who was an associate of Surya sen informed the British about his location.On Feb 16 1933 the British were able to capture Surya sen.

British did what they had done to other revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, Santhals, leaders of Sanyasi and 1857 revolt, Alluri Sitaram Raju, and the list goes on. They tortured Surya sen and on 12 January 1934 Surya sen was hanged.

After the death of Surya sen, revolutionary activities were completely stopped.The British mercilessly crushed several other revolutionaries too.The British government was sure and confident that they now only had to deal with the moderate&nonviolent leaders of INC like Gandhi.