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Sisir Kumar Bose (1920- 2000) founded the Netaji Research Bureau in 1957 and was its guiding spirit until his death in 2000. A gallant participant in This biography is the story of two exceptional brothers - one a India’s freedom struggle, well-known barrister and public figure who was a dominant force he was imprisoned by to reckon with in British India and the other a revolutionary the British in the Lahore and national hero of this country who set a portion of British- Fort, Red Fort, and Lyallpur Jail. In the post- dominated India free before 15 August 1947, remembered and Independence period he was one of India’s revered by the world as Netaji. leading pediatricians. Even in the midst of a busy professional life, he played a key role The brothers - Sarat Chandra and Subhas Chandra Bose (Netaji) in preserving the best traditions of the anti- hailed from the Bose family of Mahinagar in West Bengal. The colonial movement and making possible the family has a long lineage, a rich social and political heritage and an writing of its history. eventful past. The author Sisir Kumar Bose - Sarat Chandra’s son and Netaji’s nephew - offers a first person account and an insider’s Son of Sarat Chandra Bose and Bivabati view of the dynamics of and the upheavals in the family during Bose, Sisir helped his uncle Subhas Chandra the tumultuous days of the Raj in early and mid-20th century. Bose in planning and executing the great escape from India in January 1941. He drove The rise of Sarat Chandra Bose as one of the most eminent Netaji from Calcutta to Gomoh on the first barristers and public figures of the times has been deftly yet leg of his epic journey. Sisir took active part sensitively traced by his son, supported by priceless photographs, in the Quit India movement and Netaji’s letters, pages from diaries and other documents from the family revolutionary underground during World War archives and the Netaji Research Bureau. II. After his release from prison in September 1945, he completed his medical studies in On the 125th birth anniversary of Sarat Chandra Bose, this book Calcutta, London and Vienna and later went is an insightful contribution to the annals of the socio-political as Rockefeller Fellow to the Harvard Medical history of pre-Independence India. School in Boston.