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{{short description|Bengali revolutionary (1913-1934)}}
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| birth_place = Daspur, [[Midnapore ]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{d-da|2 June 2007| 1913}}
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| movement = [[Indian Freedom Movement]]
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''' Prabhanshu Sekhar Pal ''' (1913 – 2 June 2007) was an Indian revolutionary and member of the [[Bengal Volunteers]] who carried out assassinations against British colonial officials in an attempt to secure Indian independence. <ref>http://www.indiaculture.nic.in/sites/default/files/pdf/Martyrs_Vol_4_06_03_2019</ref>

== Family ==
Prabhanshu Sekhar Pal was born in [[Paschim Medinipur]] in 1913. His father was Asutosh Pal, a doctor and research scholar. He joined the Bengal Volunteers, a revolutionary organisation of [[British India]]. <ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=urqvDQAAQBAJ&q=Pradyot+Kumar+Bhattacharya+killed+magistrate&pg=PA1845|title=Who's Who of Indian Martyrs|last=P. N. CHOPRA|first=VOL.I|year=1969|isbn=9788123021805|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol I|first=Subodhchandra Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=297}}</ref>

== Revolutionary activities ==
After the murder of Magistrate Paddy, Robert Douglas, a ruthless District Magistrate, was posted in [[Midnapore district]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hssXP1hBYscC&q=Bhattacharya+killed+magistrate+Douglas&pg=PA254|title=History of the Freedom Movement in India (1857–1947)|last=S. N. Sen|year=1997|isbn=9788122410495|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref> The revolutionaries of the [[Bengal Volunteers]] decided to assassinate Douglas because he was responsible for killing two unarmed activists in [[ Hijli Detention Camp]]. On 30 April 1932, Prabhanshu Sekhar Pal and Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya fired on the magistrate while he was presiding over a meeting of the Zilla District Board.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hssXP1hBYscC&q=Bhattacharya+killed+magistrate+Douglas&pg=PA254|title=History of the Freedom Movement in India (1857–1947)|last=S. N. Sen|year=1997|isbn=9788122410495|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref> Pal escaped but Bhattacharya was caught on the spot with the revolver.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y74pDwAAQBAJ&q=Bhattacharya+killed+magistrate+Douglas&pg=PA151|title=Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India|last=Durba Ghosh|date=20 July 2017|isbn=9781107186668|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref> Pradyot did not give away any names of accomplices in spite of severe torture by the police.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.midnapore.in/bv.html|title=Bengal Volunteers of Midnapore|website=midnapore.in|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/600128/|title= Emperor vs Nirmal Jiban Ghose And Ors. on 30 August, 1934|access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.midnapore.in/bv.html|title= -Bengal Volunteers of Midnapore|access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref> After the murder of Magistrate Paddy and Robert Douglas no British officer was ready to take the charge of Midnapore District until Mr. Bernard E J Burge, another ruthless District Magistrate, was posted in [[Midnapore district]]. The members of the Bengal Volunteers decided to assassinate him also.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y74pDwAAQBAJ&q=Bhattacharya+killed+magistrate+Douglas&pg=PA151|title=Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India|last=Durba Ghosh|date=20 July 2017|isbn=9781107186668|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref> Pal helped the members of B.V. to collect the weapons for the assassination of Burge, who was killed on 2 September 1933 during the half time of a football match in the police parade ground by Anathbandhu Panja and Mrigendra Dutta.

== Later life ==
After Pal was released from prison he obtained a B.Com. degree. For the rest of his life he worked as a homeopathic doctor. He was honoured with a [[tamra patra]] by the Indian Government in 1971. He died on 2 June 2007.

==References==
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{{Indian Revolutionary Movement}}
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