Sachindra Nath Sanyal

Background

Hailing from the family of Pandits of Benaras, he was born to father Sri Hari Nath Sanyal and mother Smt.

Career

Under this association he set up Hindustan Republic Army in 1924. He was the mentor for revolutionaries like Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh. Kherod Vasini Devi in Benaras in 1893.

Sanyal was extensively involved in the plans for the Ghadar conspiracy, and went underground after it was exposed in February 1915.

After Bose escaped to Japan, Sachindranath Sanyal was considered the senior-most leader of India"s revolutionary movement. He and Mahatma Gandhi engaged in a famous debate published in Young India between 1920 and 1924.

Sanyal argued against Gandhi"s gradualist approach. He wrote a pamphlet called "Revolutionary" through which he represented a future picture of republic India.

In 1915, Rasbihari Bose and Sachindra Nath Sanyal made an unsuccessful attempt to organise a mutiny in Indian army against the British Raj.

He was sent to the dreaded Cellular Jail in the Andamans and in jail he wote the famous book "Bandi Jeevan" (A Life of Captivity). This book would become the bible for a generation of revolutionaries fighting British rule. Sanyal was briefly released from jail but when he continued to engage in anti-British activities, he was sent back to jail and his ancestral family home in Varanasi was confisticated.

He was sentenced for the Kakori conspiracy case and was tried and sentenced to life for the same.

Thus, Sachindranath Sanyal has the unique distinction of having been sent to the Cellular Jail in Portuguese Blair twice. He contracted Tuberculosis in jail, probably deliberately infected, and was sent to Gorakhpur Jail for his final months.

He died in 1942. He was also supplied with guns by Maulana Shaukat Ali, who was at that time a supporter of Congress and its non-violent methods but not with the same fervour for non-violence that was expressed by his organisation"s leader, Mahatma Gandhi.

Another prominent Congressman, Krishna Kant Malaviya, also supplied him with weapons.

Connections

associate:

Rash Behari Bose