Tag: violence in Bengal

By Amulya Ganguli Forpeople who are generally known to be gentle, genteel, soft-spoken ‘bhadraloks’ with a liking for sweets like ‘sandesh’ and ‘rosogolla’ and Rabindrasangeet (Tagore’s songs), Bengalis are also suspected of having a mutinous streak in them. This explains why a number of “revolutionaries” – Khudiram Bose, Prafulla Chaki, Kanailal Dutta and others – emerged to fight the British, rejecting the Gandhian concept of non-violence. It is not a coincidence that the origin of the Naxalite movement was in Naxalbari in West Bengal. Evidently, the “anarchism” of the freedom fighters flowed...