Remembering Chittaranjan Das: 10 inspirational facts about 'Deshbandhu'

Chittaranjan Das was the mentor of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: Scroll to know more.

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Chittaranjan Das
Chittaranjan Das

Chittaranjan Das was an Indian politician and founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in Bengal under the British Raj. Das was an influential orator and carried political foresight, and tact which gave him a leading position in the Congress.

To mark his death anniversary we have come up with some facts that you should definitely know:

1. Chittaranjan Das is generally referred as Deshbandhu which means "Friend of the nation".

2. Das completed his education in England, where he became a Barrister, his public career began in 1909 when he successfully defended Aurobindo Ghosh on charges of involvement in the Alipore bomb case.

3. Das maintained close contact with Bipin Chandra Pal and Aurobindo Ghosh and helped them in publishing the Bande Mataram, an English weekly for propagating the ideals of swaraj.

4. Das was politically most active between 1917 and 1925. In 1917, he presided over the Bengal Provincial Conference and put forward a plan for village reconstruction through the establishment of local self-government, cooperative credit societies, and the regeneration of cottage industry.

5. Das denounced the Montagu-Chelmsford Reform, which established a diarchy for India, and joined Gandhi's non-cooperation movement in 1920 and sacrificed all this luxury when he became attached to the Freedom Movement.

6. He initiated a ban on British clothes in Bengal during the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1919 to 1922.

7. Das  was arrested in the year 1921 with his wife and son and  was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. He was elected as the president of the Ahmedabad Congress in the same year .

8. Das also brought out a newspaper called 'Forward' and later changed its name to Liberty to fight the British Raj. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was the editor of this newspaper. Bose considered Das as his mentor..

9. Das was also a voracious reader, he was closely associated with a number of literary societies and wrote poems, apart from numerous articles and essays.

10. Das, a few years before his death, gifted his house and the adjoining lands to the nation to be used for the betterment of the lives of women. At present, it is a big hospital called Chittaranjan Seva Sadan and has gone from being a women's hospital to one where all specialties are present.


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