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Remembering Rash Behari Bose, India’s forgotten revolutionary
Rash Behari Bose, born in Bengal on May 25, 1886, was a revolutionary who masterminded the 1912 bomb attack on Viceroy Lord Hardinge in Delhi. He later planned the 1915 pan-Indian armed…
The Story in Brief
Rash Behari Bose, born in Bengal on May 25, 1886, was a revolutionary who masterminded the 1912 bomb attack on Viceroy Lord Hardinge in Delhi. He later planned the 1915 pan-Indian armed uprising during World War I, which was betrayed and crushed by British intelligence. After escaping to Japan in 1915, he continued his work abroad. Millennium Post argues his contributions are grievously underappreciated, overshadowed by the more familiar non-violent stream of India's freedom movement led by Gandhi and others.
The Indian Opinion
The story is not new, but its framing is narrow. Indian history often pits the revolutionary path against Gandhi's non-violence as if one is more legitimate. Both streams existed, and both faced brutal suppression. Bose's failure in 1915 does not diminish his strategic vision. The real test is whether modern India can honour its full freedom struggle without reducing it to a single-approved narrative or using it for present-day political point-scoring.
Source: millenniumpost.in
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