Premananda Dutta was a

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

revolutionary and activist of

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attached with Chittagong Rebellion against the British Government in

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Early life

Dutta was born in

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(Chattagram) in

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presently in

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. His father Harish Chandra Dutta was an ''Acharya'' of

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. After passing from

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he joined in the post of Port Preventive Officer in

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. In the call of ''Deshbandhu''

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he left the job and took part in

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subsequently became imprisoned for this. Dutta also took active part in the strike of

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in support of the movement of tea garden labours against British atrocities. For such nationalist political activities he went to the jail several times. In 1923, Dutta along with some youth fellows made a gymnasium and club in Chittagong town which was actually the secret den of freedom fighters.

Revolutionary activities

In 1930 he attracted to the line armed revolution led by ''Masterda''

Surya Sen Surya Sen, also known as Surya Kumar Sen (22 March 189412 January 1934), was an Indian revolutionary and played a significant role in the Indian independence movement against British rule. He is best known for leading the Chittagong Armoury ...

in Chittagong region. Since Dutta was a school friend of veteran activist

Ananta Singh Ananta Lal Singh (1 December 1903 - 25 January 1979) was an Indian revolutionary, who participated in the Chittagong armoury raid in 1930.Sengupta, Subodh Chandra (ed.) (1988) ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (in Bengali), Kolkata: Sahi ...

he joined in revolutionary action group with Singh's guidance. Mainly he took charge to keep the arms, bomb in safe custody hiding from the eye of police intelligence. In the meanwhile one sub-inspector of Intelligence Branch, Prafulla Chakrabarty caught Ananta Singha and causes repeated disturbance of the works of revolutionary group. Dutta with intention to take revenge, befriended with Prafulla and on 24 May 1924 he met that inspector in Chittagong Paltan Field and killed him by a

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Trial

Before death the sub inspector was able to give a

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to local influential person named Roy Bahadur Satish Roy. But at the time of trial in the court

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Jatindra Mohan Sengupta Jatindra Mohan Sengupta (22 February 1885 – 23 July 1933) was an Indian revolutionary against the British rule. He was arrested several times by the British police. In 1933, he died in a prison located in Ranchi, India. Sengupta studied at ...

defended the case on behalf of the accused Dutta. While cross examination the Defense counsel established that Dutta was not guilty at all, in the Appeal case of

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he became released also.

Death

Dutta was again arrested in No. 1 Bengal Ordinance Act and sent behind the bars. In the prison, he suffered from mental and psychological disorder due to negligence and torture by the jail authority. For treatment, the government sent him to

Ranchi Ranchi (; ) is the capital city and also the largest district by population of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern ...

References

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