Thread by @sayan_dey

Back with a new post for my series #LestWeForget, after a while. This is my 6th post of this series. Here's hoping my post will inspire more people to study about the life of this soul. There is so much to learn! Request everybody to read on and many thanks in advance!

#LestWeForget Post 6:

18 April 1958 (64 years ago): Barindra Kumar Ghose breathed his last - Popularly known as Barin Ghose, Barindra Kumar Ghose was born into the family of the famous philosopher and nationalist Aurobindo Ghose, for he was his younger... [1]

brother. He was born in 1880, in Croydon, United Kingdom, due to the aspirations of his father Krishna Dhan Ghose of seeing his three elder sons (born before Barin) to enter into the Indian Civil Service (ICS), for which it was necessary to study in England and... [2]

hence the entire family had moved there in 1879.
However, Barin returned to India, just after being born, with his mother Swarnalotta Ghose and elder sister Sarojini Ghose in the same year, 1880. Having returned to his Motherland, Barin completed his schooling in... [3]

Deoghar and joined the Patna College in 1901. During his college days, Barin was deeply influenced by his brother, Aurobindo and was drawn towards the revolutionary activities. During this time, he also received military training in Baroda.

1903 was the year when... [4]

Barin arrived in Calcutta, the hotbed of the revolutionary movement. Here, under the instructions of Aurobindo, he met with Jatindranath Banerjee, one of the most prominent freedom fighters in Kolkata, alongside Aurobindo at that time. Under their joint... [5]

leadership, they began to organize several revolutionary groups in Bengal. As a mouthpiece for these groups, he convinced Aurobindo to agree so that he could start the Jugantar, a Bengali weekly, which was to preach open revolt among the mass and the... [6]

absolute denial of the British rule in India. Very soon, a revolutionary organization with the same name – Jugantar was created from the inner circle of the Anushilan Samiti, formed earlier as an underground society for anti-British activities. The sole aim of... [7]

the Jugantar group was to throw the British away from the Indian soil and in order to bring success, they used the Jugantar mouthpiece to propagate articles containing instructions for guerrilla warfare.

Barin and Jatindranath Mukherjee (alias Bagha Jatin) looked... [8]

actively after the recruitment of young revolutionaries from the length and breadth of Bengal. It was during this time that they formed the Maniktala Group in Calcutta, which was a secret place for bomb manufacturing and for collecting arms and ammunition.

It was in... [9]

April, 1908 when Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki attempted the killing of Douglas Kingford, the chief police magistrate of Calcutta, for the rigorous sentences he had meted out to the revolutionaries. But after their failed attempt, Barin knew that he could not... [10]

keep the arms nor he could destroy all of them at the Maniktala Group. Thus, he dug shallow pits and hid the arms and burned some of the related papers he could gather.

But it was too late, for the very next day, a party under the command of a British inspector... [11]

came to their place and arrested Barin and fourteen others. But Barin, given the self-sacrifice he was willing to bear, offered to make a statement in his bid to save most of the young boys of the group and Aurobindo, as well. He showed the police where the guns and... [12]

chemicals were buried. Additionally, the police also discovered hundreds of papers which had escaped the burn.

The police case, which ensued was called the Alipore Bomb Case and had initially sentenced Barin Ghose and his explosives expert, Ullaskar Dutta to... [13]

death. However, it was only upon the intervention of the famous freedom fighter, political activist, nationalist and lawyer, Chittaranjan Das that their sentence was reduced to life imprisonment and Barin, along with Ullaskar, was sent to the Cellular Jail in... [14]

Andaman in 1909.

He was released only in 1920 during a general amnesty and he returned to Calcutta to start a career in journalism. But it didn’t interest him much and he left it to form an ashram in the city. Given the gravity he always felt towards his... [15]

elder brother, Aurobindo, he soon left for Pondicherry to join him at his Ashram (Sri Aurobindo Ashram) and was influenced deeply towards spirituality and sadhana by Aurobindo. He returned to Calcutta in 1929 again taking up journalism and this time went on to... [16]

start a new English weekly, "The Dawn of India". Later, he became associated with the famous daily, The Statesman and in 1950, he also became the editor of a Bengali daily, Dainik Basumati. He had authored a number of books during this phase of his life. Some of... [17]

his notable books include "The Tale of My Exile", "Rishi Rajnarayan" and "Agnijug".

On this day, in 1958, i.e. 18th April, 1958, he breathed his last. [18]

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