Kshudiram Bose : Tribute To The Unsung Hero of India

Though India’s freedom struggle saw a significant participation of people from every nook and corner of the country, unfortunately several of them have remained unknown and unsung.

One such legend was #KshudiramBose who defied all odds and terrified British rulers.

Kahudiram Bose became a martyr at a tender age of 18+ only. His age was just a number. What many teens had dreamt of doing, he did that.

He was one of the youngest revolutionaries early in the Indian independence movement. At the time of his hanging, he was 18 years, 7 months 11 days old.

Khudiram Bose was born on 3rd Dec 1889 in Habibpur, Medinipur of United Bengal Province to Laxmipriya Devi and Troilokyanath Bose.

The Bose couple had yearned for a male child but unfortunately did not live long enough to enjoy their happiness. They unexpectedly died when Kahudiram was just six.

The boy’s elder sister Anurupadevi and his brother-in-law Amritalal had to shoulder the responsibility of bringing him up.

Kshudiram got his inspiration from the sacred words of #VandeMatram and #BhagvadGita.

His first brush with freedom occurred during the Bengal partition. The whole incident left him with a feeling of discontentment and anger against the British.

He jumped into revolutionary activities and was determined to free India of cruel British rule.

Kahudiram joined Jugantar, a party of revolutionaries to learn more about the freedom fighters.

At the young age of 16, he threw the first bomb on the British who were curbing Indians from their birthright – ‘freedom’. These bombs were planted near the police station. Many British police officers lost their lives in this attack.

These bomb attacks were just the beginning of Kshudiram’s freedom struggle life. He planned several more bomb attacks but the most prominent one was the one against #MagistrateKingsford.

The Magistrate was notorious for his brutal and biased judgments against the Indian fighters.

Kshudiram had planned to throw a bomb to assassinate Magistrate but his plan did not materialize as he would have wanted.

Kingsford was lucky. He was not in the carriage on which Kshudiram threw the bomb.

The people in it were his guests, the wife and daughter of a lawyer named Kennedy, and a servant.

The daughter and the servant died instantly. Mrs.Kennedy who was seriously injured died a day or two later.

He had to flee from the scene but was later arrested about twenty kilometers from Samastipur and twelve kilometers from Pusa Bazaar where Rajendra Agricultural University was first established.

The railway station where Kshudiram was arrested as he was drinking tea was earlier known as Pusa Road and recently has been renamed as #KshudiramBosePusa (KRB Pusa).

Kahudiram Bose was sentenced to death on August 11, 1908, on the charges of bomb attacks. His last words before being hanged were, ‘Vande Mataram.

Kshudiram Bose will always be remembered in the history of Indian independence as the proponent of the ‘Agni Yuga’ or the fiery age, an era that was characterized by young people getting involved in the fight against the British without thinking twice about their own lives.