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{{Short description|Bengali writer and politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Prabhas Chandra Lahiri
| image =
| office = Provincial Minister of [[East Pakistan]]
| governor = [[A. K. Fazlul Huq]]
| 1blankname = Department
| 1namedata = Finance and Revenue
| term_start = 15 August 1956
| term_end = 30 August 1956
| predecessor = [[Basanta Kumar Das (Pakistani politician)|Basanta Kumar Das]]
| successor =
| governor1 =
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| 1namedata1 =
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| birth_date = 1893
| birth_place = [[Rajshahi Division|Rajshahi District]], [[Bengal Presidency]], British India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|01|02|1893|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Berhampore]], [[West Bengal]], India
| party = [[United Progressive Party (Pakistan)|UPP]] (1954–1958)
| other_party = {{ubl|[[Pakistan Gana Samiti|PGS]] (1948–1954)|[[Pakistan National Congress|PNC]] (1947–1948)|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] (1921–1947)}}
| resting_place =
| relations =
| alma_mater = [[Rajshahi College]]
| occupation = Writer
| education =
| nickname = Shri Prabhas Lahiri
}}
'''Prabhas Chandra Lahiri''' (1893–1974) was a Bengali writer, revolutionary, and politician. He served twice as a provincial minister in [[East Pakistan]].

== Early life ==
Lahiri was born in 1893 in [[Arani, Bangladesh|Arani]] (located in present-day [[Bagha Upazila]], Bangladesh), Rajshahi District, [[Bengal Presidency]], British India, to Jyotish Chandra Lahiri. After receiving his education at [[Natore Government Boys High School|Natore High School]] and [[Rajshahi College]], Lahiri later enrolled at a college in Calcutta (present-day Kolkata, India).<ref name=স/>

== Activism ==
During student life, he joined the [[Swadeshi movement]]. He later came into close contact with revolutionary [[Trailokyanath Chakravarty]] and joined the armed anti-British organisation [[Anushilan Samiti]]. He became known as one of its leading organizers in [[North Bengal]] and played a significant role in the [[Dharail dacoity]]. During [[World War I]], as British authorities intensified repression against freedom fighters, he was relocated on the organisation's instructions to Calcutta and later to Gauhati (present-day Guwahati, India) in the [[Assam Province]]. However, the police raided the office of Anushilan Samiti there, prompting Lahiri to join the resistance against them, an episode known as the [[Gauhati struggle]]. After escaping from the incident, he was arrested in 1918 and imprisoned until 1921. He was arrested again in 1930 after participating in the [[Salt March]].<ref name=স/>

== Political career ==
In 1921, he joined the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC).<ref name=য/> He contested the [[1946 Bengal Legislative Assembly election|provincial elections of 1946]] and was elected as a member of the [[Bengal Legislative Assembly]] from the Rajshahi (general) constituency.<ref>{{cite book|title=Assembly Proceedings Official Report Bengal Legislative Assembly Second Session, 1946|volume=LXXI|publisher=Bengal Government Press|page=vi}}</ref><ref name=স/> In the following year, after the [[partition of India]], Lahiri remained in the newly formed state of Pakistan.<ref name=স/> In 1948, he co-founded [[Pakistan Gana Samiti]] (PGS) which was later renamed to United Progressive Party (UPP).<ref>DR. KAUSAR PARVEEN, DR. SAMINA AWAN. ''[https://phs.com.pk/index.php/phs/article/download/225/111 ROLE OF PAKISTAN NATIONAL CONGRESS IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN, 1947-1958]''. J.P.H.S., Vol. LXX, No. 2</ref> Subsequently, during the 1950s, he became a member of the [[East Bengal Legislative Assembly]]. He served twice as the acting provincial minister for the Jails and Finance departments.<ref name=স>{{cite book |title=সংসদ বাঙালী চরিতাভিধান |language=bn |year=1976 |page=301 |publisher=Sahitya Samsad}}</ref> Around 1956, Lahiri became the reason of the UPP's split when he took the offer of Chief Minister [[Abu Hussain Sarkar]] to accept the ministerial post in the [[First Abu Hussain Sarkar ministry]].<ref>{{cite thesis|title=MINORITY POLITICS IN BANGLADESH, 1947-1971|first=Muhammad Ghulam|last=Kabir|year=1978|page=79–80|publisher=[[University of British Columbia]]}}</ref>

== Later life and death ==
In 1962, Lahiri visited to Berhampore of the Indian state [[West Bengal]], to visit his ailing brother Jitesh Chandra Lahiri. He subsequently remained there and died in the town on 2 January 1974.<ref name=য>{{cite news |title=পরলোকে বিপ্লবী প্রভাসচন্দ্র লাহিড়ী |language=bn |page=1 |date=3 January 1974 |newspaper=[[Jugantar Patrika]]}}</ref>

== Works ==
Lahiri's significant writings include:<ref name=স/>
* ''বিপ্লবী জীবন'' ({{lit|Revolutionary life}})
* ''India Partitioned and Minorities in Pakistan''
* ''পাক-ভারতের রূপরেখা'' ({{lit|Outline of India-Pakistan}})
* ''মুক্তি-সৈনিকের ডায়েরী'' ({{lit|Diary of a Freedom Fighter}})

== References ==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:1893 births]]
[[Category:1974 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]
[[Category:Indian revolutionaries]]
[[Category:Provincial ministers of East Pakistan]]
[[Category:East Pakistan MLAs 1954–1958]]
[[Category:East Bengal MLAs 1947–1954]]
[[Category:Bengal MLAs 1946–1947]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians]]
[[Category:Anushilan Samiti]]
[[Category:Rajshahi College alumni]]
[[Category:People from Bagha Upazila]]
[[Category:Pakistani emigrants to India]]
[[Category:Politicians from Rajshahi Division]]

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