Bipin Chandra Pal
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Date of Birth |
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Nov 7, 1858 |
Date of Death |
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Place of Birth |
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Sylhet (Bangladesh) |
Bipin Chandra Pal was born on November 7, 1858 in Sylhet, (now in
Bangladesh), in a wealthy Hindu Kayastha family. His father was
Ramchandra Pal. He was a teacher, journalist, orator, writer and
librarian who started the journal Bande Mataram.
He was one of the trilogy of the three Extremist
patriots of the Indian National Congress who had fought and gave his
life during Indian independence movement in the first half of the
twentieth century. The other two were Lala Lajpat Rai and Bal Gangadhar
Tilak. Together they were known as Lal-Bal-Pal. They had advocated
extremist means to get their message across to the British, like
boycotting British manufactured goods, burning Western clothes made in
the mills of Manchester and strikes and lock outs of British owned
businesses and industrial concerns. He came under the influence of
eminent Bengali leaders of his time such as Keshab Chandra Sen and
Pandit Sivanath Sastri, and joined the Brahmo Samaj. He was imprisoned
for six months on the grounds of his refusal to give evidence against
Sri Aurobindo in the Bande Mataram sedition case.