Tarani Debnath (1940 - 19 May 1961) ( bn, তরণী দেবনাথ) was a Bengali who took part in the
Bengali Language Movement in the Barak Valley in 1961 and became a martyr.
On 19 May 1961, while participating in a ''
satyagraha
Satyagraha ( sa, सत्याग्रह; ''satya'': "truth", ''āgraha'': "insistence" or "holding firmly to"), or "holding firmly to truth",' or "truth force", is a particular form of nonviolent resistance or civil resistance. Someone w ...
''demanding the official status for
Bengali language
Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second m ...
in
Barak Valley, he was shot dead by the paramilitary forces.
References
1940 births
1961 deaths
Bengali language movement activists
Hindu martyrs
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