Chittaranjan Das
Chittaranjan Das (5 November 1870 – 16 June 1925), popularly called Deshbandhu (Friend of the Country or Nation), was an Indian freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian Independence Movement and the Political Guru of Indian freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. He is the founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in undivided Bengal during the period of British Colonial rule in India. His name is abbreviated as C. R. Das.[3] He was closely associated with a number of literary societies and wrote poems, apart from numerous articles and essays.
"Deshbandhu" redirects here. For other uses, see Deshbandhu (disambiguation).
Chittaranjan Das
5 November 1870
16 June 1925 (aged 55)
Deshbandhu
Freedom fighter, politician, lawyer, poet, author
- Indian National Congress (Before 1923)
- Swaraj Party (1923–1925)
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Early life[edit]
Chittaranjan Das was born on 5 November 1870 to a well-known Bengali Hindu Baidya Brahmin family in the village named Telirbagh, situated in present-day Tongibari Upazila of the Munshiganj (Bikrampur) district of Bangladesh.[1][2][4][5]
Family[edit]
Das family were members of Brahmo Samaj. Chittaranjan was the son of Bhuban Mohan Das, and nephew of the Brahmo social reformer Durga Mohan Das. His father was a solicitor and a journalist who edited the English church weekly, The Brahmo Public Opinion. Some of his cousins were Atul Prasad Sen, Satya Ranjan Das, Satish Ranjan Das, Sudhi Ranjan Das, Sarala Roy and Lady Abala Bose. His eldest grandson was Siddhartha Shankar Ray and his grand daughter is Justice Manjula Bose.[6]
He married Basanti Devi (1880–1974) and had three children, Aparna Devi (1898–1972), Chiraranjan Das (1899–1928) and Kalyani Devi (1902–1983).