Gaurav Gatha-E-10-Ras Bihari Bose

Ras Bihari Bose

A follower of Sri Aurobindo and a giant among Indian revolutionaries, Rash Behari Bose was born on May 25, 1886 at Parala-Bighati, a village in Hooghly District. After an indifferent student career he took up a job in the Forest Re- search Institute, Dehra Dun. Already in touch with the revolutionaries of Bengal, he organised revolutionary work in Punjab, Delhi and U.P. Rash Behari was the brain behind the plot to throw a bomb at Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy of India, in December 1912. His associates, Master Amir Chand, Avad Bihari, Bal Mokand and Basanta Biswas, were caught and hanged. Thereafter, the absconding Rash Behari began to operate from his Banaras hideout when an armed revolt was planned during the first great war. The plan failed following the arrest of Pingley, a Marathi young man. Pingley was hanged.
Try as best as they could, the British rulers of India failed to capture Rash Behari. When he escaped (ir 1915) to Japan, the Government pressurised the Japanese Government for his extradition, but he outwitted even the Japanese police. However, he continued to propagate the cause of Indian Independence. Although his dream to see India free did not materialise in his lifetime (he died on January 21, 1945), Rash Behari knew that the hour of glory was very near. And, indeed it was. The freedom India gained in 1947 was as much the result of the glorious deeds of hundreds of revolutionaries like Rash Behari as of other patriots who joined the non-violent non-cooperation movement of Mahatma Gandhi. 

• Gaurav Gatha
• Title                    : Ras Bihari Bose
• Serial No.           : 10
• Total Pages        : 36
• Script                 : English
• Publisher           : Gaurav Gatha, New Delhi
• Publishing Year : October 1981