Person · armoury raid leader
Surya Sen
Also known as Masterda
Surya Sen (22 March 1894 - 12 January 1934), the Chittagong Indian Republican Army leader who led the 18 April 1930 Chittagong Armoury Raid — the attack on the Chittagong Police Armoury and Auxiliary Force Armoury that captured over 1,500 weapons and briefly declared the Provisional Government of the Indian Republic. Born at Noapara village in Chittagong district, Sen led the April 1930-March 1933 Chittagong insurgency. Captured in February 1933 through betrayal, he was tortured (all his teeth broken, nails pulled out) and hanged at Chittagong Jail on 12 January 1934. The subsequent April 1930-December 1932 Chittagong resistance by Pritilata Waddedar and Kalpana Dutta made it one of the longest sustained anti-colonial campaigns in India.
- Date
- 1894–1934
- Function
- Social reform & movement
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
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- CampaignChittagong armoury
Surya Sen led the 18 April 1930 Chittagong Armoury Raid against the Chittagong Police Armoury and the Auxiliary Force Armoury — the attack that briefly declared the Provisional Government of the Indian Republic. The subsequent April 1930-March 1933 Chittagong insurgency under Sen's Indian Republican Army involved over 1,500 captured weapons and over 100 revolutionaries. Sen was hanged at Chittagong Jail on 12 January 1934 after being captured through betrayal.
Sources
Standard biography; regional historiography.
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