Nirmal Jiban Ghosh (5 January 1916 – 26 October 1934) was an Indian revolutionary and member of the

Bengal Volunteers Bengal Volunteers Corps was an underground revolutionary group against the British rule of India. The group was functional from its inception in 1928 to the Indian independence. The beginning Subhas Chandra Bose organised a group of voluntee ...

. He was hanged on 26 October 1934 for the charge of assassination of Magistrate Burge.

Family

Ghosh was born in Dhamasin village,

Hooghly district Hooghly district () is one of the districts of the Indian state of West Bengal. It can alternatively be spelt ''Hoogli'' or ''Hugli''. The district is named after the Hooghly River. The headquarters of the district are at Hooghly-Chinsurah (' ...

in 1916. His father name was Jamini Jibon Ghosh. He was admitted in I.A. in

Midnapore College Midnapore College, established in 1873, is the oldest college in Midnapore, in the Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in arts, sciences and vocational degree in Tourism & Aviation Manageme ...

and joined the Bengal Volunteers, a revolutionary organisation of

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. His family was attached with the

Indian freedom movement The Indian independence movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed. The first nationalistic movement to ...

. His brother Prof. Binoy Jibon Ghosh was dismissed from service for having a connection with the

Swadeshi movement The Swadeshi movement was a self-sufficiency movement that was part of the Indian independence movement and contributed to the development of Indian nationalism. Before the BML Government's decision for the partition of Bengal was made public i ...

. Another brother Naba Jibon Ghosh committed suicide while imprisoned by the British. His elder brother

Jyoti Jibon Ghosh Jyoti Jibon Ghosh (1910 – 1968), was an Indian revolutionary and member of the Bengal Volunteers who carried out assassinations against British colonial officials in an attempt to secure Indian independence. He is a close associate of revolutio ...

was also imprisoned.

Revolutionary activities

After the assassination of two previous

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s James Peddy and Robert Douglas, no British officer was ready to take charge of

Midnapore district Midnapore (Pron: mad̪aːniːpur), or sometimes Medinipur, is a former district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Midnapore. On 1 January 2002, the district was bifurcated into two separate districts namely Purba Medinipur ...

. Bernard E. J. Burge, a ruthless District Magistrate and former soldier, was posted to Midnapore. Members of the Bengal Volunteers,

Ramkrishna Roy Ram Krishna Roy (9 January 1912 – 15 October 1934) was an Indian revolutionary and member of the Bengal Volunteers who carried out assassinations against British colonial officials in an attempt to secure Indian independence. He was hanged on ...

, Brajakishore Chakraborty, Prabhanshu Sekhar Pal,

Kamakhya Charan Ghosh Kamakhya (), a mother goddess, is a Shakta Tantric deity; considered to be the embodiment of ''Kama (desire)'', she is regarded as the goddess of desire. Her abodeKamakhya Temple is located in the Kamarupa region of Assam, India."Seated on top ...

, Sonatan Roy, Nanda Dulal Singh, Sukumar Sen Gupta, Bijoy Krishna Ghose, Purnananda Sanyal, Manindra Nath Choudhury, Saroj Ranjan Das Kanungo,

Santi Gopal Sen Shanti Gopal Sen ( 25 December 1913 – 16 September 1996 ) was an Indian revolutionary and member of the Bengal Volunteers who carried out assassinations against British colonial officials in an attempt to secure Indian independence.As he w ...

, Sailesh Chandra Ghose,

Anath Bondhu Panja Anathbandhu Panja (29 October 1911 – 2 September 1933) was an Indian revolutionary and member of the Bengal Volunteers who carried out assassinations against British colonial officials in an attempt to secure Indian independence. Early life ...

and Mrigendra Dutta and others decided to assassinate him. On 2 September 1933 Ghosh, along with Panja and Dutta shot Burge dead while he was playing a football match ( Bradley-Birt football tournament) at the police grounds at Midnapore. The assassins were pursued by a Police Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent also playing. Panja was shot dead while Dutta was wounded and also died that day. A Special Tribunal under the

Bengal Criminal Law Amendment The Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance of 1924, enacted into law as Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Act in 1925, was a criminal law ordinance enacted in October 1924 in Bengal, in British India. The law was implemented to stem the rise in revol ...

, 1925, found the survivors guilty and sentenced them to death. Chakraborty was hung on 25 October 1934. Chakraborty and Ramkrishna were sentenced to death in 25 October.

Death

Nirmal Jibon Ghosh was hanged in Medinipur Central Jail on 26 October 1934.

References

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