Person · young revolutionary
Khudiram Bose
Also known as Khudiram
Khudiram Bose (3 December 1889 - 11 August 1908), one of the youngest Indian revolutionaries ever hanged by the British — executed at age 18. Born at Mohobani village in West Bengal's Midnapore district, Bose joined the Anushilan Samiti Bengal revolutionary network at age 15. On 30 April 1908 at Muzaffarpur, Bihar, he and Prafulla Chaki threw a bomb at a carriage they mistakenly believed carried the hated British judge Douglas Kingsford — killing instead the wives of a British barrister Pringle Kennedy. Captured the next day, Khudiram was hanged at Muzaffarpur Jail on 11 August 1908. His execution turned him into one of the earliest Bengal nationalist martyrs; the Bengali ballad 'Ekbar Biday De Ma' is sung at his memorial.
- Date
- 1889–1908
- Function
- Social reform & movement
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
Connections (1)
- Court associationPrafulla Chaki
Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki together carried out the 30 April 1908 Muzaffarpur bombing attempt against the hated British judge Douglas Kingsford (who had sentenced several Anushilan Samiti Bengal revolutionaries to transportation). The two 19-year-olds were among the earliest Bengal armed-revolutionary martyrs — Khudiram hanged at Muzaffarpur Jail on 11 August 1908 and Chaki shot himself at Mokama Ghat station on 2 May 1908 to avoid capture.
Sources
Standard biography; regional historiography.
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