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'''Shyam Sundar Chakravarty''' (12 July 1869 – 7 September 1932), alternately spelled as '''Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy''' or '''Shyam Sundar Chakravarti''' ({{lang-bn|শ্যাম সুন্দর চক্রবর্তী}}), was an [[India]]n [[revolutionary]], [[Indian Independence Movement|independence activist]] and journalist from [[Bengal]]. He was born in [[Bharenga]], [[Pabna]] in [[Bengal Presidency]] (currently in [[Bangladesh]]). He belonged to the "Pabna Group" of [[Revolutionary movement for Indian independence|Bengali revolutionaries]] along with Abinash Chakravarty and Annada Kaviraj.<ref>{{cite book|last=Guha|first=Arun Chandra |title=First spark of revolution: the early phase of India's struggle for independence, 1900-1920|publisher=Orient Longman|year=1971|pages=214–216|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3oi6yfbzEGMC&q=pabna+group&dq=pabna+group&lr=&as_brr=0&cd=4}}</ref> In 1905 he was the sub-editor of the revolutionary journal ''Sandhya''. In 1906, he joined with [[Bengali people|Bengali]] nationalist newspaper ''[[Bande Mataram (publication)|Bande Mataram]]'' as an assistant to its editor [[Sri Aurobindo]] and later became its editor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sankalpindia.net/drupal/bande-mataram|title=Bande Mataram|date=17 July 2008|work=sankalpindia|accessdate=6 February 2010}}</ref> In 1908, he was deported to Burma.<ref>{{cite book|title=Political Agitators in India|pages=8|url=https://archive.org/stream/politicalagitato00slsnuoft#page/10/mode/2up}}</ref> Later he became an adherent of the non violent methods of [[Indian National Congress]] and an office bearer of the [[Swaraj Party]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Sharma|first=Suresh K|title=Documents on North-East India: Assam (1664-1935)|publisher=Mittal Publications|year=2006|pages=274–276|isbn=978-81-8324-089-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JCnLlpHhtUgC&pg=PA275}}</ref> He founded and edited the newspaper ''"The Servant"'' in 1920 to promote the [[Non-cooperation movement]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Sharma|first=Jagdish Saran|title=Encyclopaedia Indica, Volume 2|publisher=S. Chand|year=1981|pages=1121|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hWtDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Shyam+Sundar+Chakravarty%22&dq=%22Shyam+Sundar+Chakravarty%22&as_brr=0&cd=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gandhi|first=Gopalkrishna |author2=Amartya Sen |author2-link=Amartya Sen |title=A frank friendship: Gandhi and Bengal : a descriptive chronology|publisher=Seagull Books|year=2008|pages=82|isbn=978-1-905422-63-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VrkVAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Shyam+Sundar+Chakravarty%22&dq=%22Shyam+Sundar+Chakravarty%22&as_brr=0&cd=9}}</ref>