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<div>{{Short description|Indian freedom fighter (1900–1931)}}<br />
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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Santosh Kumar Mitra<br />
| image = File:Martyr Santosh Mitra.jpg<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|15 August 1900}}<br />
| birth_place = Central Calcutta, [[British India]]<br />(now in [[Kolkata]])<br />
| death_date = {{dda|16 September 1931|15 August 1900}}<br />
| death_place = [[Hijli Detention Camp]], [[British India]]<br />(now in India)<br />
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| known_for = Role in Indian freedom struggle<br />
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| father = Durga Charan Mitra<br />
| spouse = Jyotsna Mitra<br />
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'''Santosh kumar Mitra''' (Bengali: সন্তোষ কুমার মিত্র) or Santosh Mitra (15 August 1900 – 16 September 1931) was an activist of the [[Indian independence movement]] and a martyr.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Mitra was born on 15 August 1900 in [[Kolkata]], in a middle class [[Kayastha|bengali]] family. He passed matriculation from [[Hindu School, Kolkata]] in 1915 and became graduate from the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1919. During the period 1921–22, he completed his M.A and LL.B.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jaaDQAAQBAJ&q=santosh+mitra+hijli&pg=PT234|title=Indias Struggle Quarter of Century 1921 to 1946|last=Part I|first=Arun Chandra Guha|isbn=9788123022741|access-date=22 November 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Revolutionary activities==<br />
Santosh Mitra joined the [[Indian National Congress]]. He founded the Swaraj Sevak Sangha and was attached with Hooghly Vidya Mandir which was headed by Bhupati Majumder, one of the [[Jugantar]] Leaders in 1922. He organised a Socialist conference in Kolkata in the presidency of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]. After the suspension of [[Non-cooperation movement]] Mitra shifted to the extremist movement in the struggle for Independence. He was charged with Shankharitola Murder Case and arrested in 1923.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol - I|first=Subodh S. Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=|location=Kolkata|pages=559}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
On 16 September 1931, police shot and killed Santosh kumar Mitra and another inmate [[Tarakeswar Sengupta]] in [[Hijli Detention Camp]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/archive/iit-kharagpur-remembers-its-hijli-jail-days/130948/|title=IIT-Kharagpur remembers its Hijli Jail days|website=financialexpress.com|access-date=22 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1020911/asp/bengal/story_1188458.asp|title=IIT revival pill for historic Hijli Jail|first=Naresh|last=Jana|date=11 September 2002|access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref><br />
[[File:Santosh_kumar_mitra_martyr_02.jpg|thumb|Santosh Kumar Mitra bust]]<br />
[[File:Santosh_kumar_mitra_martyr_01.jpg|thumb|Santosh Kumar Mitra martyr]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Indian Revolutionary Movement}}<br />
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[[Category:1900 births]]<br />
[[Category:1931 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali people]]<br />
[[Category:Anti-British establishment revolutionaries from East Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:People from Kolkata]]<br />
[[Category:Indian revolutionaries]]<br />
[[Category:Revolutionary movement for Indian independence]]<br />
[[Category:Indian independence activists from Bengal]]</div>2401:4900:5AA1:7861:8678:BD0C:5B5B:9F62