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'''Mahendra Gop''' (15 August 1912 – 23 November 1945) was [[Indian people|Indian]] freedom struggle activist. He belonged to the [[Zamindar]] [[Yadav]] family of Rampur, currently a part of [[Banka district]], [[Bihar]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=[[Shrikrishna Saral|Srikrishan 'Sarala']] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_AiQG2mg00C&q=mahendra+gop&pg=PA189 |title=Indian Revolutionaries 1757–1961 (Vol-4): A Comprehensive Study, 1757–1961 |date=1999-01-01 |publisher=Prabhat Prakashan |isbn=978-81-87100-19-5 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Srikrishan 'Sarala'|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cujDv8sJI6wC&q=mahendra+gop&pg=PA264|title=Indian Revolutionaries 1757-1961 (Vol-5): A Comprehensive Study, 1757-1961|date=1999-01-01|publisher=Prabhat Prakashan|isbn=978-81-87100-20-1|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Pati|first=Biswamoy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5C5uAAAAMAAJ&q=gope+zamindar|title=Turbulent Times, India, 1940-44|date=1998|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7154-834-7|language=en}}</ref> At the age of 32, he was hanged in Bhagalpur Camp Jail in Bihar.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-08-15|title=हंसते-हंसते फांसी पर झूल गए, लेकिन एक ख्वाहिश रह गई थी बाकी!|url=https://www.bhaskar.com/news/BIH-BHAG-martyr-mahendra-gop-and-satish-prasad-jha-4348046-PHO.html|access-date=2021-03-27|website=Dainik Bhaskar|language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=आजादी के सात दशक बाद भी लोहागढ़ नदी पर नहीं बना पुल|url=https://www.prabhatkhabar.com/state/bihar/banka/1357083|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Prabhat Khabar – Hindi News|language=hi}}</ref>
==Early life==
Mahendra Gop was born on 15 August 1912 in zamindar family to Ram Sahay Khirhar, in Rampur village of the [[Banka district]], in the state of [[Bihar]]. He belonged to the [[Yadav]] (Ahir).<ref>{{Cite web|title=शहीद महेन्द्र गोप के घोड़े की टाप से डरते थे अंग्रेज|url=https://www.jagran.com/bihar/banka-10860123.html|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Dainik Jagran|language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=यादव|first=जय नारायण सिंह|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uxduAAAAMAAJ&q=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0+%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AA|title=यादवों का बृहत् इतिहास: आरम्भिक काल से वर्तमान तक-दो खण्डों में|date=2005|publisher=यादव इतिहास शोध केन्द्र|language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Singh|first1=K. S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jw9uAAAAMAAJ&q=majraut|title=India's Communities|last2=India|first2=Anthropological Survey of|date=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-563354-2|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Srikrishan 'Sarala'|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_AiQG2mg00C&q=mahendra+gop&pg=PA189|title=Indian Revolutionaries 1757-1961 (Vol-4): A Comprehensive Study, 1757-1961|date=1999-01-01|publisher=Prabhat Prakashan|isbn=978-81-87100-19-5|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Srikrishan 'Sarala'|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cujDv8sJI6wC&q=mahendra+gop&pg=PA264|title=Indian Revolutionaries 1757-1961 (Vol-5): A Comprehensive Study, 1757-1961|date=1999-01-01|publisher=Prabhat Prakashan|isbn=978-81-87100-20-1|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Pati|first=Biswamoy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5C5uAAAAMAAJ&q=gope+zamindar|title=Turbulent Times, India, 1940-44|date=1998|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7154-834-7|language=en}}</ref>
==Revolutionary activities==
In [[Bhagalpur]], Shree Parshuram Singh organised a group known as Parshuram Dal, this group chalked out a programme of taking revenge from sympathisers of British Government. The real strength of Parshuram Dal lay in Mahendra Gope, who emerged as great leader of this group.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Roy|first=Pankaj Kumar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D9NHAAAAMAAJ&q=mahendra+gope|title=The Quit India Movement in Bihar: The Special Reference to the Old Division of Bhagalpur|date=1991|publisher=Capital Publishing House|isbn=978-81-85157-64-1|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ambastha |first=Gouri Shankar P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FnhuAAAAMAAJ&q=mahendra+gope |title=Freedom Movement and Role of Congress Leaders |date=1995 |publisher=Classical Publishing Company |isbn=978-81-7054-163-9 |language=en}}</ref>
During the Quit India movement Mahendra Gope and Parshuram Singh were important revolutionary leaders from south Bhagalpur, who gave open challenge to the government and killed a member of officers.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Parishad|first=Bihar Purāvid|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iFduAAAAMAAJ&q=mahendra+gope|title=The Journal of the Bihar Purāvid Parishad|date=1983|publisher=Bihar Puravid Parishad.|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfNtAAAAMAAJ&q=mahendra+gope|title=Journal of Indian History|date=1971|publisher=Department of Modern Indian History|language=en}}</ref>
Mahendra Gope was very strong, energetic and daring so he earned great name in disruption and arson during the freedom movement. He plundered, thrashed and killed number of people cruelly those who were in support of Britishers. He became so much popular that he had his own group within Parshuram Dal and in this group Lakho Sahi, Jago Sahi, Shree Gope, Shridhar, Praduman and Dayanath and other people like them joined. Later Mahendra Gop became independent and became leader of Gope Dal particularly after the arrest of Parshuram Singh in May 1943.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chaturvedi|first=Ritu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCnRzJwcqSQC&dq=mahendra+gope&pg=PA345|title=Bihar Through the Ages|date=2007|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-798-5|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ambastha|first=Gouri Shankar P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FnhuAAAAMAAJ&q=mahendra+gope|title=Freedom Movement and Role of Congress Leaders|date=1995|publisher=Classical Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-7054-163-9|language=en}}</ref>
Mahendra Gope and his group had links with Congress Socialist Party.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekvhAAAAMAAJ&q=mahendra+gope|title=Mainstream|date=1999|publisher=N. Chakravartty|language=en}}</ref> In May 1943, his group also joined Siaram Singh's party but they were removed from the party for certain reason in June 1943.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Congress|first=Indian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wBNDAAAAYAAJ&q=mahendra+gope|title=Proceedings|date=2006|publisher=Indian History Congress|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=IAS|first=Dr Birendra Prasad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VFFREAAAQBAJ&dq=mahendra+gope&pg=RA2-PA59|title=BPSC GENERAL STUDIES PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION GUIDE 2022|date=2021-11-29|publisher=Prabhat Prakashan|isbn=978-93-5488-021-6|language=en}}</ref>
==Death==
During the last half of September 1944, Mahendra Gop was arrested with ten members of his group in his hideout in the jungles of [[Banka district|Banka]] subdivision in south Bhagalpur. The arrest was effected after a rapid march by a Police party through the jungle. Mahendra Gop gave a list of 20 people on a paper whom he suspected of informing against him and his friends and who were marked for murder.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chaturvedi|first=Ritu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCnRzJwcqSQC&dq=mahendra+gope&pg=PA345|title=Bihar Through the Ages|date=2007|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-798-5|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Śrīvāstava|first=Nāgendra Mohana Prasāda|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnNuAAAAMAAJ&q=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0+%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AA|title=Bihāra meṃ rāshṭrīyatā kā vikāsa: 1912–1947|date=1998|publisher=Bihāra Hindī Grantha Akādamī|language=hi}}</ref>
On 23 November 1945, the [[British Raj|British]] hanged Mahendra Gop in [[Bhagalpur]] Camp Jail.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Prasad|first=Rajendra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCluAAAAMAAJ&q=mahendra+gope|title=Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Correspondence and Select Documents: 1945 to 1946|date=1984|publisher=Allied|isbn=978-81-7023-002-1|language=en}}</ref>
People like [[Rajendra Prasad]] tried very hard to save Mahendra Gop from death sentence but they could not succeed.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Srikrishan 'Sarala'|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_AiQG2mg00C&q=Rajendra+Prasad+Mahendra+Gop&pg=PA189|title=Indian Revolutionaries 1757–1961 (Vol-4): A Comprehensive Study, 1757–1961|date=1999-01-01|publisher=Prabhat Prakashan|isbn=978-81-87100-19-5|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Saral|first=Shrikrishna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HcFoDwAAQBAJ&q=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0+%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AA&pg=PT260|title=Krantikari Kosh: Chaturtha Khand|date=1998-01-01|publisher=Prabhat Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7315-235-1|language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sinha|first=Tara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DY2gDwAAQBAJ&q=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0+%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AA&pg=PR65|title=Rajendra Babu Patron Ke Aaine Mein-01|date=January 0101|publisher=Prabhat Prakashan|isbn=978-93-5186-645-9|language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sinha|first=Tara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsynRkUMJT4C&q=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0+%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AA&pg=PA144|title=Rajendra Babu: Patron Ke Aaine Mein|date=2007-01-01|publisher=Prabhat Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7315-654-0|language=hi}}</ref>
==Legacy==
[[File:Mahendra Gop.jpg|thumb|Statue of Mahendra Gop in Banka.]]
A sports ground has been named after the Mahendra Gop at the Eksingha in [[Banka district]], It is known as Amar Shaheed Mahendra Gop Stadium.<ref>{{Cite web|title=amar shahid mahendra gop stadium samukhiyamore eksingha – Google Search|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=amar+shahid+mahendra+gop+stadium+samukhiyamore+eksingha&ludocid=13441738509941337282&lsig=AB86z5UD7LXCh_WlAAD4JfhQuhR9|access-date=2021-03-29|website=www.google.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Banka, Banka : बांका: #अमर शहीद महेंद्र गोप स्टेडियम सर्वोदनगर एकसिंघा मोड़ बांका में क्रिकेट टूर्नामेंट VIRAT CUP 2020–21 का भव्य उद्घाटन हुआ {{!}} Public App|url=https://public.app/video/sp_5n5xpp7s7i5n4|access-date=2021-03-29|website=Public|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Banka, Banka : बांका: शहीद महेंद्र गोप स्टेडियम में आयोजित क्रिकेट टूर्नामेंट के फाइनल मुकाबले में पुलिस लाइन की टीम 9 विकेट से जीती {{!}} Public App|url=https://public.app/video/sp_wmokyofw0jnpc|access-date=2021-03-29|website=Public|language=en}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[Bihari Ahir]]
*[[Majhraut]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
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[[Category:1912 births]]
[[Category:1945 deaths]]
[[Category:Bihari Ahirs]]
[[Category:Indian revolutionaries]]
[[Category:People executed by British India by hanging]]

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