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Union Education and Skill Development Minister to call for including information about Anushilan Samiti in National Curriculum Frameworks (NCFs) to inspire the next generation.
The Minister urged NCERT and the Education fraternity to include enough information about Anushilan Samiti.
Anushilan Samiti
- Anushilan Samiti was a revolutionary organisation in Bengal.
- It was launched on 24 March 1902 by Barinder Kumar Ghosh, Jatindernath Banerji and Pramathanath Mitra.
- Â It was headed by Barindra Kumar Ghosh, younger brother of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
- In the first quarter of the 20th century, it supported revolutionary violence as the means for ending British rule in India.Â
- The organisation arose from an association of local youth groups and gyms (akhara) in Bengal in 1902.Â
- Its two arms were the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti, centred in Dhaka, and the Jugantar group, centred in Calcutta.Â
- The Samiti was inspired by the thoughts, speeches, and writings of Swami Vivekananda and influenced by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s ‘Anandmath’.
- Alarmed by the revolutionary activities of the Samiti, the British took a series of measures to crush it.Â
- Their activities, and that of the Ghadar Party, led to the passage of the Defence of India Act 1915.Â
- After WW-I, the draconian Rowlatt Acts were passed to deal with them.
Major Publications
- In 1905, the Samiti published ‘Bhavani Mandir’ (Temple of Goddess Bhavani) which incorporated a detailed plan of establishing a religious sanctuary in a secluded spot as the centre of revolutionary activities.
- Aurobindo Ghosh and Bipin Chandra Pal began a Bengali nationalist weekly ’Jugantar’ (New Era) and its English counterpart ‘Bande Mataram’ in March 1906 that openly preached armed rebellion to create the necessary revolutionary mentality among Indians.
Armed Revolution:
- The unpopular educational reforms of Lord Curzon and the Partition of Bengal thus are considered the chief reasons behind the radical activities of Anushilan Samiti.
- From 1907, the members belonging to Anushilan Samiti were very active in revolutionary activities.
- On 6 December 1907, they tried to blow up the train in which the Lieutenant-Governor of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam was travelling.
- Two members of the party, Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose were sent to Muzaffarpur to murder Mr Kingsford, the Chief Presidency Magistrate
- Prafulla was arrested but shot himself dead, and Khudiram was tried and hanged.
- The revolutionary activities in Western Bengal practically came to a stop for a time from 1910 and since then the storm centre of revolutionary activities shifted to Eastern Bengal.
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