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7 unusual facts about Anushilan Samiti


Anushilan Samiti

Two main groups that remained were the Jugantar itself and the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti, in the western and the eastern parts of the Bengal, respectively.

Kolkata and, later, Dhaka were the two major strongholds of the association.

The famous Barisal Conspiracy Case of 1913 established the fact that there were hundreds of revolutionary followers of the Samiti in the Barisal district alone.

The Dhaka branch of Anushilan was led by Pulin Behari Das and spread branches through East Bengal and Assam.

The Dhaka branch of the Anushilan Samiti was formed by Pulin Behari Das, who was once a teacher in the Dhaka Government College and, later, a founding headmaster of 'National School' (Dhaka), along with his followers, in 1906.

Barisal Conspiracy Case

The colonial police there reported that they had seized certain documents implicating the Anushilan Samiti, a revolutionary organization whose East Bengal chapters were under the leadership of Trailokyanath Chakrobarty and Pratul Chandra Ganguli.

Congress Socialist Party

During the summer of 1938 a meeting took place between the Marxist sector of the Anushilan movement and the CSP.



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