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By 1907, Barin Ghosh had begun gathering around groups of young men attracted to the ''Jugantar'' message. This was at a time that the [[Dhaka Anushilan Samiti]] under Pulin Das was becoming active in seeking to target British administrative officers and interests as targets. Police searches and surveillance of ''Jugantar'' became routine, and the younger Ghosh cut his ties with the paper. A close group of approximately a dozen young men gathered around Barin, some of whom lived in his garden house in 36 Muraripukur lane, in the Manicktolla suburb of Calcutta. The house was intended by Barin to be organised along the lines of an ''[[ashram]]'' or hermitage along the lines of Aurobindo's message in ''Bhawani mandir'', away from the public eye, where revolutionaries could live in strict discipline and prepare for a future revolution. Barin's group had been experimenting with production of explosives from 1906. In 1907, they were joined by [[Ullaskar Dutt]], a self-taught chemist from the [[Howrah]] suburb of Calcutta who was attracted to the ''Jugantar'' message. The group had targeted the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal since 1906. In autumn 1906 Charu Chandra Dutt and [[Prafulla Chaki]] had made a failed attempt to assassinate the governor at [[Darjeeling]].<ref name=Heehs2008p133/> With Dutta's expertise, the plans were revisited. By October that year, Dutta was in a position to manufacture a bomb powerful enough to blow up a train. With dynamite obtained by Barin's group, Dutt produced a bomb with a detonator of his own manufacturing. The intended target was the train carrying the lieutenant governor of Bengal, [[Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser|Andrew Fraser]]. Through November 1907, two attempts were made to target the train carrying the lieutenant governor, which were unsuccessful. However, the group was at last successful on 5 December when Bibhutibhushan sarkar and Prafulla Chaki successfully detonated Dutt's bomb under the Governor's train at [[Narayangarh, Paschim Medinipur|Narayangarh]], near [[Midnapore]]. The Governor escaped unhurt, but security was tightened around him in the investigation that followed. In January 1908, Dutt successfully produced a more powerful [[picric acid]] bomb that was tested in [[Deoghar]]. Accidentally, a young revolutionary of [[Rangpur, Bangladesh|Rangpur]], Prafulla Kumar Chakraborty, died that time. However, by this time Bengal police had infiltrated the Medinapore branch of the ''Samiti'' through an infiltrator, who was able to pass on information on the Manisktolla ''ashram'', which he obtained from Satyendranth Bose. This included the names of Barin Ghosh and Aurobindo, and both were soon the subject of surveillance by Calcutta police. However, the Government desisted from acting against Ghosh's group, fearful they would melt away to regroup in secret.<ref name=Heehs2008p153>{{harvnb|Heehs|2008|p=153}}</ref> | By 1907, Barin Ghosh had begun gathering around groups of young men attracted to the ''Jugantar'' message. This was at a time that the [[Dhaka Anushilan Samiti]] under Pulin Das was becoming active in seeking to target British administrative officers and interests as targets. Police searches and surveillance of ''Jugantar'' became routine, and the younger Ghosh cut his ties with the paper. A close group of approximately a dozen young men gathered around Barin, some of whom lived in his garden house in 36 Muraripukur lane, in the Manicktolla suburb of Calcutta. The house was intended by Barin to be organised along the lines of an ''[[ashram]]'' or hermitage along the lines of Aurobindo's message in ''Bhawani mandir'', away from the public eye, where revolutionaries could live in strict discipline and prepare for a future revolution. Barin's group had been experimenting with production of explosives from 1906. In 1907, they were joined by [[Ullaskar Dutt]], a self-taught chemist from the [[Howrah]] suburb of Calcutta who was attracted to the ''Jugantar'' message. The group had targeted the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal since 1906. In autumn 1906 Charu Chandra Dutt and [[Prafulla Chaki]] had made a failed attempt to assassinate the governor at [[Darjeeling]].<ref name=Heehs2008p133/> With Dutta's expertise, the plans were revisited. By October that year, Dutta was in a position to manufacture a bomb powerful enough to blow up a train. With dynamite obtained by Barin's group, Dutt produced a bomb with a detonator of his own manufacturing. The intended target was the train carrying the lieutenant governor of Bengal, [[Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser|Andrew Fraser]]. Through November 1907, two attempts were made to target the train carrying the lieutenant governor, which were unsuccessful. However, the group was at last successful on 5 December when Bibhutibhushan sarkar and Prafulla Chaki successfully detonated Dutt's bomb under the Governor's train at [[Narayangarh, Paschim Medinipur|Narayangarh]], near [[Midnapore]]. The Governor escaped unhurt, but security was tightened around him in the investigation that followed. In January 1908, Dutt successfully produced a more powerful [[picric acid]] bomb that was tested in [[Deoghar]]. Accidentally, a young revolutionary of [[Rangpur, Bangladesh|Rangpur]], Prafulla Kumar Chakraborty, died that time. However, by this time Bengal police had infiltrated the Medinapore branch of the ''Samiti'' through an infiltrator, who was able to pass on information on the Manisktolla ''ashram'', which he obtained from Satyendranth Bose. This included the names of Barin Ghosh and Aurobindo, and both were soon the subject of surveillance by Calcutta police. However, the Government desisted from acting against Ghosh's group, fearful they would melt away to regroup in secret.<ref name=Heehs2008p153>{{harvnb|Heehs|2008|p=153}}</ref> | ||