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| name = Batukeshwar Dutta | | name = Batukeshwar Dutta | ||
| image = Batukeshwar dutt.jpg | | image = Batukeshwar dutt.jpg | ||
| caption = Batukeshwar Dutt in 1929 | | caption = Batukeshwar Dutt in 1929 | ||
| | | native_name = বটুকেশ্বর দত্ত | ||
| birth_date = {{birth date|1910|11|18|df=yes}} | | birth_date = {{birth date|1910|11|18|df=yes}} | ||
| birth_place = [[Khandaghosh]], [[Purba Bardhaman | | birth_place = [[Khandaghosh]], [[Purba Bardhaman district|Bardwan district]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]<ref>{{cite web |title= Batukeshwar Dutta |url= http://www.towardsfreedom.in/site/Batukeshwar_Dutt |access-date= 5 May 2015 |archive-date= 7 March 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190307144553/http://www.towardsfreedom.in/site/Batukeshwar_Dutt |url-status= dead }}</ref><br/>(Now in [[West Bengal]], [[India]]) | ||
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1965|07|20|1910|11|18|df=yes}} | | death_date = {{Death date and age|1965|07|20|1910|11|18|df=yes}} | ||
| death_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]] | | death_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]] | ||
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| organization = [[Hindustan Socialist Republican Association]],<br/>[[Naujawan Bharat Sabha]] | | organization = [[Hindustan Socialist Republican Association]],<br/>[[Naujawan Bharat Sabha]] | ||
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'''Batukeshwar Dutta''' {{audio|Batukeshwar Datta.ogg|pronunciation}} ( [[Bengali language|Bengali]]: বটুকেশ্বর দত্ত; 18 November 1910 — 20 July 1965) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[socialist]] [[revolutionary]] and independence fighter in the early 1900s.<ref name="Sarala1999">{{cite book|author=Śrīkr̥shṇa Sarala|title=Indian Revolutionaries: A Comprehensive Study, 1757-1961|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_iFS6waXHYIC&pg=PT110|access-date=2012-07-11|year=1999|publisher=Ocean Books|isbn=978-81-87100-18-8|pages=110–}}</ref> He is best known for having exploded two bombs, along with [[Bhagat Singh]], in the [[Central Legislative Assembly]] in New Delhi on 8 April 1929. After they were arrested, tried and imprisoned for life, he and Bhagat Singh initiated a historic [[hunger strike]] protesting against the abusive treatment of Indian political prisoners, and eventually secured some rights for them.<ref>[http://www.shahidbhagatsingh.org/index.asp?link=hunger_strike Bhagat Singh Documents] ''Hunger-strikers' Demands''</ref> He was also a member of the [[Hindustan Socialist Republican Association]]. | |||
'''Batukeshwar Dutta''' {{audio|Batukeshwar Datta.ogg|pronunciation}} (18 November 1910 — 20 July 1965) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[socialist]] [[revolutionary]] and independence fighter in the early 1900s.<ref name="Sarala1999">{{cite book|author=Śrīkr̥shṇa Sarala|title=Indian Revolutionaries: A Comprehensive Study, 1757-1961|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_iFS6waXHYIC&pg=PT110|access-date=2012-07-11|year=1999|publisher=Ocean Books|isbn=978-81-87100-18-8|pages=110–}}</ref> He is best known for having exploded two bombs, along with [[Bhagat Singh]], in the [[Central Legislative Assembly]] in New Delhi on 8 April 1929. After they were arrested, tried and imprisoned for life, he and Bhagat Singh initiated a historic [[hunger strike]] protesting against the abusive treatment of Indian political prisoners, and eventually secured some rights for them. | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Batukeshwar Dutta — also known as B. K. Dutta, Battu, and Mohan — was a son of Goshtha Bihari Dutta. He was born on 18 November 1910 in [[Khandaghosh]] village, [[Purba Bardhaman district]], in what is now [[West Bengal]] in a | Batukeshwar Dutta — also known as B. K. Dutta, Battu, and Mohan — was a son of Goshtha Bihari Dutta. He was born on 18 November 1910 in [[Khandaghosh]] village, [[Purba Bardhaman district]], in what is now [[West Bengal]] in a [[Brahmin]] family. He graduated from [[Pandit Prithi Nath College|Pandit Prithi Nath High School]] in [[Kanpur|Cawnpore]]. He was a close associate of freedom fighters such as [[Chandrashekhar Azad]] and [[Bhagat Singh]], the latter of whom he met in Cawnpore in 1924. He learned about bomb-making while working for the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) there. | ||
==1929 Assembly bomb throwing incident== | ==1929 Assembly bomb throwing incident== | ||