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Sunday, September 25, 2016

Surendranath Banerjee Indian Freedom Fighter

BANERJEE, SURENDRANATH (1898-1925)
A national leader, popular journalist and dedicated educationist of Modern India.  He successfully competed for the Indian Civil Service in 1869 but on technical grounds he was disqualified.  After a court judgement in his favour, he was inducted into the Civil Services, but was soon dismissed on flimsy grounds.  After dismissal, he plunged into the role of public agitator fighting to redress the grievances of all those who had suffered.  He mooted the idea of holding a National Conference of representatives from political associations all over the country.  Published the paper called as BengaliOne of the founders of the INC, he walked out of the Congress in 1918, after the emergence of Mahatma Gandhi on the Indian political scene.  In January, 1921, the Governor of Bengal appointed him as minister of local self-government and health.  He thus became the first Indian to hold that position.  Benerjee’s acceptance of office provoked strong protest and the nationalists had no truck with him thereafter.
Surendranath Banerjee Indian Freedom Fighter

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