Dhaka Anushilan Samiti was a branch of the
Anushilan Samiti founded in the city of
Dhaka in November 1905. Initially a group of eighty under the leadership of
Pulin Behari Das, it "spread like wildfire" throughout the province of
East Bengal. More than 500 branches were opened, linked by a "close and detailed organization" to Pulin's headquarters at Dhaka. It absorbed smaller groups in the province and soon overshadowed its parent organization in
Calcutta. Branches of Dhaka Anushilan emerged in the towns of
Jessore,
Khulna
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,
Faridpur,
Rajnagar,
Rajendrapur, Mohanpur,
Barvali,
Bakarganj and other places. Estimates of Dhaka Anushilan Samiti's reach show a membership of between 15,000 and 20,000 members.
Within another two years, Dhaka Anushilan would devolve its aims from the
Swadeshi movement to the dedicated aim of political terrorism.
The ''Dhaka Anushilan Samiti'' embarked on a radical program of political terrorism. It broke with the ''
Jugantar group'' due to differences with Aurobindo's approach of slowly building a base for a revolution with a mass base. The Dhaka group saw this as slow and insufficient and sought immediate action and results. It was responsible for several political assassinations, most notably the murder of D.C. Allen. However, it reached a temporary halt after the arrest and deportation of Pulin Das and the
Barisal Conspiracy Case
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in 1913. Dhaka Anushilan decided not to participate in the
German plot of World War I. After the war, it continued in its violent movement, and some of its members went on to form the Neo-violence group.
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{{Indian Revolutionary Movement
Anushilan Samiti