Author: Prithwindra Mukherjee
Publisher: National Book Trust
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 134
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788123759616
Description
Inventor and architect of the Jugantar movement, Jatindranath Mukherjee (1879-1915) was popular as Bagha Jatin. Behind the minimalist image of a champion of physical strength, he was esteemed – by those who knew him – for his thirst for justice, his vision of an India politically free, socially modern and spiritually progressive.
Believing in the enemy’s enemy as a practical philosophy, he negotiated with the German Crown Prince the delivery of arms for an insurrection; the Berlin committee Signed a ttreaty with the Kaiser’s ministers in favour of creating a socialist government in India. Preceding Gandhiji, Jatindranath prepared the field for a mass movement, supplying arms – both moral and military – to an unarmed people half asleep under chronic bondage.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Mother Sharat-Shashi
2. Calcutta Central College (1898)
3. A Double Life (1) – HM’s Servant
4. A Double Life (2) – Secret Society
5. Howrah Conspiracy Case
6. Release – A New Perspective
7. Insurrection – First Steps
8. Jatindra Absconds
9. Balasore – Haldight of Modern India
10. The Good Man – Anecdotes
11. Letters by Jatindra
12. Epilogue
Chronology
Bibliography