Surya Sen

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Surya Sen, also known as Surya Kumar Sen (22 March 1894 – 12 January 1934), was an Indian revolutionary who played a significant role in the Indian independence movement against British colonial rule. He is best known for leading the Chittagong Armoury Raid in 1930. Sen was a schoolteacher by profession and was popularly known as Master Da ("da" is an honorific suffix derived from "dada", meaning "elder brother" in the Bengali language). He was influenced by the nationalist ideals in 1916 while he was a student of B.A. at Berhampore College (now Murshidabad Maharaja Krishnath University). In 1918, he was selected as president of the Indian National Congress's Chittagong branch. Sen was known for recruiting a group of young and passionate revolutionaries known as the Chittagong group. The group included Ananta Singh, Ganesh Ghosh, and Lokenath Bal, and fought against the British stationed in Chittagong. He was an active participant in the Non-co-operation movement and was later arrested...

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