Revolutionary Movement & INA (Set 5)

Islanders elected Diwan Singh their spokesman under Japanese occupation. He resisted Japanese demands over the Gurdwara and medical supplies.

Diwan Singh Kalepani was tortured to death by Japanese occupying forces, on 14 January 1944, in the same Cellular Jail he had once worked in.

The two entered the office of C.G.B. Stevens, District Magistrate of Comilla, on the pretext of a petition, then shot him with pistols hidden under their shawls.

Choudhury was 14 and Ghosh was 15 at the time, making them among the youngest political prisoners of the entire freedom struggle.

Tried in Kolkata in February 1932, both were sentenced to transportation for life, as they were minors at the time of the assassination.

Both were released in 1939 through amnesty negotiations involving Mahatma Gandhi, after serving seven years of their life sentence.

Santi Ghosh served in the West Bengal Legislative Council (1952-62, 1967-68) and the Legislative Assembly (1962-64), after also earning a college education.

Bapat spent much of his time in Britain learning bomb-making, and connecting with revolutionaries at India House, including the Savarkar brothers.

Bapat served as president of the Maharashtra branch of the Forward Bloc, the party Subhas Chandra Bose founded, from 1939.

Dutta became Jugantar’s principal bomb-maker, and the explosive used at Muzaffarpur in 1908 was one he had built.

Dutta was arrested on 2 May 1908, the same day as Barindra Kumar Ghosh, the Jugantar founder who had recruited him.

Prafulla Chaki, alongside Khudiram Bose, carried the bomb Dutta had built in their attempt on magistrate Kingsford.

The mutiny began at the HMIS Talwar signals establishment in Bombay on 18 February 1946.

Nearly 20,000 ratings joined the mutiny within days, across roughly 78 ships and shore establishments.

476 sailors were dismissed and court-martialled; Khan and most leaders were barred from future government employment.

In 1909, Mohanlal Pandya attempted to bomb Viceroy Lord Minto in Ahmedabad; both Mintos escaped unhurt.

Her daughter became Captain Lakshmi Sahgal, who commanded the Indian National Army’s Rani of Jhansi Regiment.

Das defended Aurobindo Ghose in the Alipore Bomb Case and won his acquittal, taking the brief without a fee. The Kakori, Meerut and Lahore conspiracy cases were all real trials, but came later and involved different accused.

A police informer exposed the plot, and mass arrests began on 19 February 1915, just two days before the planned 21 February uprising.

The answer is the Muslim League. Bose allied with League leader Fazlul Huq’s government to have the monument, seen as a symbol of colonial narrative, removed in 1940.

Khudiram walked about 25 miles and was held by two constables at Waini railway station. Waini is now called Khudiram Bose Pusa.

Khudiram Bose was tried at Muzaffarpur and hanged there at about 6 a.m. on 11 August 1908.

Khudiram Bose used the name Haren Sarkar at Muzaffarpur. His partner Prafulla Chaki used the name Dinesh Chandra Roy.

The three INA officers were charged with waging war against the King Emperor. The trial began on 5 November 1945.

The shooting took place on 22 June 1897, the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, as officials returned from the celebrations at Government House.