Deshbandhu Chitranjan Das
Deshbandhu Chitranjan Das
Deshbandhu Chitranjan Das
AMAR
CHURA
DESHBANDHU
CHITTARANJAN DAS
Brilliant lawyer, talented poet, farsighted statesman - Chitaran jan
KATHA
ITTARANJAN
HE SACRIFICED HIS ALL FOR THE COUNTRY
Das had all ¡t takes to make life prosperous and peaceful, but he
chose hardship and suffering for "he dreamed and thought and
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talked of the freedom of India, and of nothing else.' In return, he
received in abundance the undying gratitude and love from his
countrymen. Deshbandhu is remembered to this day for his
matchless Service and sacrifice.
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CHITTARANJAN DAS
ANO SO CHITTARANJAN ARRMEP IN LONPON IN /890... .. AN¿? BESAN STU0Y/NG FOR H/S J.C-S.
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AMAR CHURA KATHA DESHBANDHU CHITTRANJAN DAS
PAS TOOK HIS FATHER*S ADVICE, WAS CALLEO TO THE BAR THE SAME VEAR, ANO SETSA/L
PAS STRONGLV CONPEMNEO THE STATEMENT AT A MEET/NG OF THE LIBERAL PARTV
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AMAR CHURA KATHA DESHBANDHU CHITTRANJAN DAS
QH5 STARTED PRACTiCE RT THE CñLCUTTJ) COURJ. THE FIRST DfWS WERE ñ STRÜGGLE. HE HñD TO 3UT IN 1896 8 FRESH CON7INGENCV AROSE I STOOD A MAN 7H|RT¿/
WñfT FOR CLIENT 6 THOUSAND RUPEES IN
SURETH AND THE FEILOW
HAS VANISHED ! HIS CREDITOR5
TOO WILL PESTER US. WE'LL
HAVE NO
WE WILL dOlNTLY
/A/ THOSE DfiVS LAwVERS HAP THE/R OWN HE USUALLV WENT TO THE COURT &V FILE AN INSOLVENCV
CARRIAGES• EUT PAS COULP NOT AS VET TRAM ANP RETLfRNEP HOME ON FOOT. PETITION
AFFORP ONE /
ONE TICKET TO
ESPLANA2E, please
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THE PETITION KWS F/LEP, THE CASE ROM ITTED
ONE EVENING NO, THflNK YOU ! GRAPUALLV t HOME VER, HtS PRfíCTICE
I FINO WALKJNG IMPRO VEP. AND THE PE CREE OF INSOLVENCV /SSUEP.
CAN I GIVE VOU GOOD FOR MV , FATHER'S CREDITORS WILL BE
A LIFT, DAS P V HEALTH, y BABU, VOU MUST
TAKE UP MV ÜNHAPPV WITH THE AMOÜNT THEY'LL
GET AFTER THE COURT AUCTIONS
•r OUR ESTATES AND EFFECTS.
I MUST WORK HARD
AND ONE DAV MAKE
THEIR L05SES.
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AMAR CHURA KATHA DESHBANDHU CHITTRANJAN DAS
OF THE SE PRESS UÑES, PñS FOUNP TIME TO WRITE POETRV, A PURSUIT HE EXCELLED]
IN 190$ } THE 0RITISH PAR TI TI ONE P BEN GAL ON COMM UNAL UNES. THERE IRAS A STRONG
}N AND ENJOyEP. HIS FIRST ANTHOLOGy OF POEMS, MAL ANCHA, W/9S PUBUSHEP IN 1096. REACTION FROM THE PEOPLE.
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| -vW4Mt 4¿V THE GOVERNMENT CAME POWN WITH A HEAVy HAND ON THE DEMONSTRATORS .
H>CM OF pCSHMANDHU IN HIS OWN HAMOmWHQ
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AS A PROPHET OF NATIONALISM
ANP A LOVER OF HUMANITY.
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\ KNOWtNG TH!9 DAS ACCEPTED THE BRlEF EVEN THOUGH IT MEANT A SET-BACK W HtS OWN THE SPELLBOUND JURY GAVE ITS VERPICT AND
¡ IHCOME ANOTHER. ROUND OF BORRON/NG, ANP HARDSHlP FOR THE FAMILY. N/GHT AND DAT AUROBINDO NA S AOUITTED IN MAY 1909.
HE PORED OVER HIS LAN BOOKS OBLIVlOUS OF ALL ELSE. THE TRlAL BEGAN IN 1900...
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AMAR CHURA KATHA
DESHBANDHU CHITTRANJAN DAS
HIS 3ELFLE5S WORK OF 7HE PAS7 FEW MON7HS PAlD HIM RlCH, THOU6H UNSOUQHT, DIVIDENOS.
HtS REPUTATION SOARED AND SO P1D HIS INCOME.HE NOVO OVJNED A CARRIASE AND UVED BUT I PlP NOT ASK YOU TO
PO THAT • I WILL OLEAR H\Y
FATHER’S PEBTS IN FÜLL
ANP WITH JNTEREST.
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ONE WHO LEAST EXPECTED THE CHEQUE HE
RECEH/ED, WAS S.R. MULUCK,A CHtLDHOOD FR/ENP.
HIS FATHER HAD ONCE LENT PAS'S FATHER SOME
MONEY!
THE TIME HAP COME 70 FULFfL THE VOW HE BOJ, CHUTO, YOUR WHAT 15 CHITTO 15
HñP MR DE TO HIMSELF YEARS AGO. ATHER ANP YOU WERE THIS ? SY5TEMATICALLY
PECLAREP INSOLVENT. OLEARING OLP
YOU ARE NOT LEGAlLV PEBTS.
BOUNP TO REPñY
THOSE PE0TSI
CHITTAR ANdnN
I WANT TO MEET MUST HAVE 60HE
CHITTARANJAN &ABU. TO THE COURT.
I PESPER.ATELV NEED COME INI LET US
SOME MONEV AND TRV AND FIND
I HAVE HEARP HIM THERE.
' MUCH ASOUT
Ihis GENE-
! R05ITV.
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AMAR CHITRAKATHA
DESHBANDHU CHITTRANJAN DAS
INSTE AP THE ROWLATT ...AND iMPRtSONED... BUT IT WAS ONL'i DURING THE NAGPUR SESStON OF THE CONGRESS ÍN PECEMBER. 192-0
BILL * WAS PASSED AND
THAT DAS PLUNGED HEADLONG INTO THE MOCEMENT- ,--
EVEN PE ACE FUL UNARMED
PERSONE WERE LA7HI- THE TÍME HAS COME TO RESORT
CHARGED... TO NON-CO-OPERATION IN
EARNEST. I CALL ON LAWYERS TO
BOVCOTT THE COURTS,ON
STUDENT3 TO BOVCOTT THEIR
INDIAS INSTITUTIONS, ANO ON ALL MY
CON COÜNTRVMEN TO REFU6E TO /
PAY TAXES.
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' I^vrikic uuitl^Ü rr .^P.RESSING THE NAT,0NAL MOVEMENT. EMPOWERED T>HE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO DETAIN
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TAKE IT AWAV.
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SARKAR! TOBACCO. AND
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AMAR CHURA KATHA
DESHBANDHU CHITTRANJAN DAS
7HESE WE3TERN CLOTHES
ONE PfíY A STRANGER CAME TO SEE PESH- " I HAVE PASSED THE l>CS.EXAMINATION
MU ST 60, TOO. l’LL MAKE
BANDHU. f 8U7 SERVICE UNDER AN
A FINE BONFIRE OF THEM.
" /VW FRIEND IN LONDON ALIEN GOVERNMENT ANO
A5KED ME 70 PERSONALLY LOVALTY TO THE MOTHER-
DELIVER THIS LETTER 70 LAND PON'T 60 HAND IN
YOU. ME COULO HOT RI3K HAND. I WISH TO JOIN
YOU * HE WRITE5 .
5ENDINO 17 BY POST.
CaOOO ¡ WE NEEO
. , V0UN6 MEN LIKE HIM.
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THE NEXT STEP HE TOOK 1 ANO 7HA7 WAS WHEN A MEM0ER OF THE
1 MEANWHILE , A GROUP OF STUDENTS CAME TO DESHBANDHU.
WAS 70 &¡6>N AWAy 7HE BANGIYA SAH/TYA PARISHAP CAME TO H!M>
OWNERSHIP OF H/S MATE¬ —
RIAL WEALTH 70 THE I HAVE COME ALL 7HA7 15 HERE 51R, WE HAVE STARTED VERY SOON.
MOTHERLAND, REDUCING FOR A DONATION NOW BELON6S 7O BOYCOTTING THEIR
5IR. IA55URE YOU
H/MSELF 70 THE POSITION 7HE MOTHERLAND. COLLEGES. WHEN WILL
OF A MERE TROS TEE. WE 6ET OUR NATIONAL
C0LLE6E ?
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AMAR CHURA KATHA DESHBANDHU CHITTRANJAN DAS
THE PRINCE OF WftLES \NÑS TO ViSIT iND/ft MU? UNLy £?c//v c ruten tenrtunn
A7 OHE STflnON THE TRftlN HRLTEp ÑTAÑM.
PESHBfiNDHU 7HEN BEC,ñN 70 ^OUR !N 1921 AND WfiS TO REñCH BOMBA*/ THE VOLUNTEERS. ÑNOTHER W/JS HtS WtFE
THE COUNTRW 70 SPREÑP THE ME5SÑÚE fí StKH ENTEREP PESH8ÑNDHU ‘S COMPñRTMENT.
ON NOVE M BE R 21 AND CÑLCU7TÑ ON BÑSANTt PEVt. r
CE THE CONGRESO. LfíRGE HE IS SLEEPING. PECEMBER 24.
-*' I FStA SELLING KHAPI AND
QREETED HIM WHEREVER HE WENT. PLEASE 00 NOT WHAT ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO
P»STUR8 H»M. I WANT VOLUNTEERS— VOU DOJN6 OBSERVE A HARTAL WHEN
WHA7 vVE WANT IS ' A LAKH OF THEM.THEV WILL NlPiDPM? THE PRINCE OF WALEG
FREEDOM . NOT FOR SELL KHAPI »N THE 5TREE COMES TO CALCUTTA.
the Elite alone, AND TELL THE PEOPLE TO
BüT FOR THE POOR OBSERVE HARTAL PURING
TOO.
NOW
I AM HAPPV.
■ l HA VE.
TRAVELLED
FOR 5EVEN
DA Y© ON FOOT
JU5T TO SEÉ
VOU»
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AMAR CHURA KATHA DESHBANDHU CHITTRANJAN DAS
PESHBÑNDHU PÑS WÑS THE PRES!DENT¬ ...IT WOULD BE SHEER HVPOCRIS^ THROC/ÚHOUT PESH&ÑNDHU'S /LLNESS
ELE CT OF THE FORTHCOHUNG CON6RESS ON OUR PART TO EX7END A MÑTHOOR. WÑI7EP ON HIM ÑNP ÑTTENPED
SESSION ÑT ÑHMEDÑ&ÑD . SÑROJ/NI NÑIPU NATIONAL WELCOME TO THE TO H!S NEEPS♦ [
REAP OUT THE SPEECH THÑT HE WROTE MBASSADOR OF THE
POWER THAT WOULD r"" i'**
DENV US OUR / AV
ELEMENTARA
RlGHTS. ..
SUBHÑS 0OSE ÑNP MAM OTHER FOLLOWERS OF PESHBÑNDHU H/ERE ÑLSO IN PRISON AT
™F 3ÑME TIME.THEY HÑP LONG DtSCUSSlONS- \-1_
c mSL / 1 ADMIRED
H*VE ^IWA^S
AOU.
BUT AFTER BEING MEAR
V0U ANP KNOWING VOUR
INHERMOST 7H0ÜGHTS
I ADMIRE WOU ALL THE
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AMAR CHITRA KATHA DESHBANDHU CHITTRANJAN DAS
THE GAYA SESS/ON OF THE CONGRESS IN HE MOVED A RESOLUTION SUPPORT/NG PESHBANDHU AND HIS MEN CON7ES7EP 7HE GOVERNOR INVI7EP PESHBANDHU 70
DECEMBER 1322 WITNESSED A SPUT ¡N THE COUNCIL ENTRY. IT WAS DEFEATED. 7HE ELEC7ION. ÉH jan FORM A MINISTRA ]-
PARTY. DAS. AS Fl FrTFD PRFF1F>FNT MArvr a MOTILA L AND PSSHBftNDHU RESIGNED
FROM THE WORKIN6 COMMITTEE.
7IT'S
.
A LANPSLIDE TH!S IS MV REPLV. "MEMBERS
THE RE 15 NO ROVAL R OAD TO VICTORV ! OF MV PARTV ARE PLEDGED TO
FREEDOM. DARK ANP DIFFICULT OUR DlFFERENCE PUT AN END TO THE PRESENT
WILL BE THE PATH LEADING TO IT. WILL ONLV BE FOR GOVERNMENT. I DECLINE TO
BUT DAUNTLESS IS YOUR A SHORT WHILE . ACCEPT A'OÜR EXCELLENCV*
COURAGE, AND FIRM VOUR
THE MAdORITV
RESOLUTIONj AND
WILL 500N
THOU6H THERE WILL
ACCEPT OUR
E REVERSES, SOME¬
POINT OF VIEW.
TIALES SEVERE
REVERSES,THEV WILL
ONLV HAVE THE
FFECT OF SPEEDING
VOUR EMANCIPATION
FROM THE BONDAGE
OF A FORElGN
m
ELECTIONS 70 THE CALCUTTA CORPORATION ! 7HE PRESSURE OF CEASElESS WORK
WE WILL TAKE THE
DESHBANDHU MUS7ERED A 6OOP DEAL OF BESAN 70 7ELL ON DESHBANDHU ‘S HEALTH
NON -CO - OPERATION WERE HELP AND HE RE 700 DESHBANDHU AND
9UPPORTt AND A7 7HE 1323 SESSION OF 7HE
MOVEMENT TO THE HIS MEN WON EASILY. DESHBANDHU WAS VOU MUST <30 TO THE
CONGRESS IN DELHI 7HE MOOD WAS P/FFERCI
LEGISL ATURE. WE ELECTED MAUOR AND SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE HILLS FOR A CHAN6E.
WILL EFFECTIVELV IT 15 USELESS TO BOVCOTT SECAME HIS CH/EF EXECUTJVE OFPICER. WE WILL MANAGE HERE
BLOCK ALL GOVERN- LEGISLATURE5. WE SHOULP WIN <jl( WE INDIANS REGARD THE PON'T WORRV ABOUT US
^ MENT MEASURES A5 MANV SEAT5 AS POSSIBLE. ¿jf POOR AS 600 ! 1 SHALL TRV
AS MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS WILL NOT Pl TO DIRECT THE ACTIVITIES
yJHE LEGISLATURE COME IN THE WAV OF THE V&X OF THE CORPORATION TO
SWARAJISTS. SERVIH6 THE POOR.
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AMAR CHURA KATHA
DESHBANDHU CHITTRANJAN DAS
PESH&fíNPHU LEFT FOR SlMLfí, BUJ HE HfíP MEETIN6S WERE HELO IN PROTEST\
QfíHDHl HfíPPENEP 70 BE IN tnts MOUSE HfíO BECOME fí SPINNINQ CLfíSS f
70 CUT SHORT MIS tiOUDñ'i VAHEN HE PESHBñNDHU SPOKE fíT THE CfíLCUTTA
CORPORATION. --j BENófíL fíHP UOINEp DESHBfíNDHU
RE CE ¡VEO fí WtRE FROM CfíLCUTTfí, I CAN NEVER SPIN ON
fíT PfíRJEEUNO. 7HEY WENT FOR IT'S JUST A FEMININE
J IF 10VE FOR ONE’s
WfíLKS fíHP HELO LEN&7HY THE CHARKHA, WITHOUT WILE TO MAKE HER
COUNTRy IS A CRiME . SdBHAS PISCUSSIONS. |- BASANTES HELP, BAPUJl. HUSBAND DEPENDEN
ISA CRIMINAL. SO AM |f
SHE HOLPS THE KEY TO ON HER.
WHV was he ARRESTED?
MY PLYING THE CHARKHA.
THERE IS NO EXPLANATION,
15 THIS LAW ?
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DESHBAHDHU's HEALTH D£TE/?,0RfíTFrt THESE THREE HAVE TAKEN peshbbnphu’s fe ver a se o to come off and on.
TO NON-CO-OPERATION!
DESHBAndhu, VOUR Health \ * PUT THEM IN A OAIL .
WILL IMPROVE ONLY IF YOU ) THE LOYAL ONES SHOULD
HAVE A CHANK3E OF AIR. GET TITLES FROM
COME TO DARJEEL1NG AS BAPU»
MU GUEST. r 1
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