Tarak Nath das

• The death anniversary of revolutionary Taraknath Das was observed recently.

ABOUT TARAKNATH DAS

• Taraknath Das was an Indian revolutionary with a global outlook.
• He was born in a Bengali middle-class family in Majhipara, North 24 Parganas.
• At a young age, Das became a member of Anushilan Samiti, a secret society,
• On the advice of Jatindranath Mukherjee, Das escaped initially to Japan and then moved to the United States of America.
• He started the publication of an anti-British newspaper, ‘Free Hindusthan’ to champion the cause of immigrants.
• In 1913, Das came in contact with Har Dayal and got associated with the Ghadar Movement and its anti-colonial activities.
• In 1917, he was implicated in the Indo-German conspiracy case for which he was imprisoned in Kansas for two years.