How did Surya Sen Captured British outpost?

 Hello friends, how are you all. I hope you are all having fun and being healthy. Today we are going to talk about Surya Sen, a patriot of India

• also known as "Master Da" in Indian History.
• whose revolutionary group included youths as young as 16, 17 years.
• who also attacked the British outpost to get machine guns and ammunition.

Let us know the history of Surya Sen who made plans in such a mind.

Surya Sen

Who was Surya Sen?

Surya Sen was born on 22 March 1894 in Noapara village of Chittagong (now Bangladesh) in a middle class family. His father used to teach children in Rajmani Sen School. After his schooling he completed his B.A from Brajmohan College, Berhampur.

After coming from college, he served as a teacher in a school in Chittagong. In school, he used to teach children his favorite subject Mathematics. Since Surya Sen was a teacher in the school, he was affectionately called "Master Da" (a respect in Bengali) by the children and the villagers.

Why did Surya Sen left Indian National Congress organization?

From childhood, Surya Sen had seen the atrocities of the British and developed a hatred towards them. He decided to fight against the British and joined the Indian National Congress. He also worked with Gandhiji in the non-cooperation movement in India.

When Surya Sen saw the work of the Indian National Congress organization, he found it very slow. He began to think that if they work so slowly, when will the British be taught a lesson? Surya Sen wanted to teach the British a lesson as soon as possible. So he left the Congress organization and started thinking of forming a separate group of his own.

How did Surya Sen built his revolutionary army against British?

He wanted to teach the British a lesson as soon as possible. Special training was given to the students of the school where he used to teach as a teacher. He had prepared an army of his own consisting of 15 to 17-year-old hot-blooded, passionate young revolutionaries.

Surya Sen's Army

Initially there were 60 youths in his army, then gradually an army of 500 youths was prepared. Surya Sen named his army IRA. The full name of IRA was "Indian Republican Army".

Which revolutionaries were involved in the Indian Republican Army?

Girls also played a role as revolutionaries in Surya Sen's IRA organization. Some of them were Kalpana Dutt and Pritilata Waddedar.

The names of the revolutionary brothers were:

1. Ganesh Ghosh,
2. Anant Singh,
3. Loknath Bal,
4. Ambika Chakraborty,
5. Manoranjan Bhattacharya,

 Such revolutionaries were included in the IRA organization.

How did Surya Sen Captured British outpost?

Surya Sen was planning to expel the British from Chittagong. He had an army of passionate revolutionaries but very few weapons. They needed arms to fight the British. He knew that the British bunker in Chittagong had lots of guns, ammunition, etc.

He planned to attack the armed outpost of the British along with a few colleagues from his army. As planned, he attacked outpost with his colleagues at night. After the attack, they took complete control of outpost. On the outpost, they raised slogans of "Vande Mataram" and "Inqalab Zindabad" and hoisted the Indian flag after removing the British flag.

They captured the British outpost, but they did not get the machine guns and ammunition which they wanted. They returned with the pistol they found. Surya Sen's revolt against the British is also known as the "Chittagong Mutiny".

What was the plan of Surya Sen to carry out the "Chittagong Mutiny".

At first, Surya Sen, along with his colleagues, blocked the telephone, telegraph and railway lines near the outpost. The telephone line was closed so that the British could not immediately send a message to anyone else for their own help.

The tracks of the railway line were broken and no one could come soon to help them in Chittagong. Surya Sen used his intelligence to prepare the "Chittagong Mutiny" with his allies.

How did Surya Sen survive the British?

Surya Sen knew that the British were not going to sit quietly when the British were attacked. Escaping the British, Surya Sen and his companions left Chittagong and hid in the forest area. The British knew that the revolutionaries were hiding in the forests around Chittagong.

Hiding in Forest

The British were trying hard to find the revolutionaries but they could not find Surya Sen. Once there was a war between Surya Sen's army and the British and the British had to suffer a lot. In the battle he killed 80 British soldiers but 12 of his comrades also lost their lives.

What was the reward given by the British for the capture of Surya Sen?

The British had tried many ways to capture Surya Sen but he did not fall into the hands of the British. Finally, the British offered a reward of 10,000 Rs for the capture of Surya Sen. 10,000 Rs was considered a huge sum at that time.

None of the people of Chittagong informed about Surya Sen. He had a friend named Sainama Netra Sen who did not get along with Surya Sen much, he betrayed Surya Sen.

Netra Sen's greed for the money informed the British about Surya Sen, the British caught Surya Sen. When accomplices found out that Netra Sen had caught Surya Sen, one of the accomplices cut Netra Sen's throat.

Conclusion:

In this article, we saw how much the people of Chittagong supported him. Although the people of the village knew, the people did not inform the British about him. Surya Sen was attacking the enemy with gorilla warfare strategy. He was hanged on 12 January 1934.

Surya Sen wrote in a letter to a friend a day before he was hanged. "Comrades, there is no need to panic. Our intention is to make the country free. Step forward in faith, there is no need to turn back. Our victory is certain”. It is said that when he was executed, he was in a state of unconsciousness. A monument named after him has been erected at the place where he was hanged.

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