Consider the following freedom fighters: 1. Barindra Kumar Ghosh 2. Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee 3. Rash Behari Bose Who of the above was/were actively associated with the Ghadar Party?

Consider the following freedom fighters: 1. Barindra Kumar Ghosh 2. Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee 3. Rash Behari Bose Who of the above was/were actively associated with the Ghadar Party? Correct Answer 3 only

Rash Behari Bose was associated with the Ghadar Party.

Key Points

Rash Behari Bose

• He was born in Bardhawan, West Bengal. Although he was more interested in revolutionary activities, he earned a degree in medical science and engineering.
• Bose learned the tricks of making crude bombs even before he had passed matriculation.
• His sacrifices and organisational skills formed a big part in India’s struggle for independence.
• He was one of the key organisers of Ghadar revolution that aimed to attack the British army from the inside. It helped in activating an uprising in India.
• He also played a crucial role in organising the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj).
• He performed a key role in establishing the Indian Independence League.
• He attempted to assassinate Lord Hardinge by throwing a bomb at his parade in Delhi on December 23, 1912.
• He escaped the arrest but several of his confidants were arrested and hanged for the famous Lahore Conspiracy Case.
• Rash Behari Bose escaped from India in 1915 and lived in Japan as an escapee. In 1943, he handed over the charge of Azad Hind Fauj to Subhas Chandra Bose.
• The Japanese government had honoured him with the ‘Order of the Rising Sun’.

 Important PointsBarindra Kumar Ghosh

• The younger brother of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, was an Indian revolutionary and journalist. Being born in England, he received education in Deoghar and military training from Baroda.
• He was highly influenced by Aurobindo and thus, joined the revolutionary movement. He was actively associated with Jatindra Nath Banerjee (a prominent freedom fighter, also known as Niralamba Swami).
• In the year 1906, Barindra Kumar published the Bengali weekly Jugantar. Later, the secret revolutionary arm Jugantar was formed under the guise of a fitness club in Bengal.
• He, along with Jatindranath Mukherjee, was instrumental in recruiting young revolutionaries. Maniktala, Kolkata, emerged as a secret place where the revolutionaries used to manufacture bombs, and collected arms and ammunition. In the intensive police investigation following the murder attempt of Magistrate Douglas Kingsford (1908), Barindra and Aurobindo were arrested on 2nd May 1908 along with other freedom fighters.
• In the Alipore Bomb Case, Barindra Ghosh and Ullaskar Dutta (a member of the Jugantar party) were sentenced to death. With the intervention of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, the sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.
• In 1909, Barindra Kumar was deported to the Cellular Jail, Andaman. 

Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee 

• He was born in 1895 and initially joined Anushilan Samiti of Bengal, later he became part of the Hindustan Republican Association/ Army (HRA). He remained imprisoned.
• The members of the HRA once planned to free him but the plan failed. Later he joined Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and remained with it till 1953. He became a Rajya Sabha member from the Congress party in 1956 and died as MP on 2 April 1960.