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DICTIONARY OF MARTYRS INDIA’S FREEDOM STRUGGLE (1857-1947) Vol. 4 Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura Mangal Pande Jatindra Nath Mukherjee alias Bagha Jatin Photo Courtesy: NCERT ii Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom Struggle (1857-1947) Vol. 3 DICTIONARY OF MARTYRSMARTYRS INDIA’S FREEDOM STRUGGLE (1857-1947) Vol. 4 Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura General Editor Arvind P. Jamkhedkar Chairman, ICHR Executive Editor Rajaneesh Kumar Shukla Member Secretary, ICHR Research Consultant Amit Kumar Gupta Research and Editorial Team Ashfaque Ali Md. Naushad Ali Md. Shakeeb Athar Muhammad Niyas A. Published by MINISTRY OF CULTURE, GOVERNMENT OF IDNIA & INDIAN COUNCIL OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH iv Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom Struggle (1857-1947) Vol. 3 MINISTRY OF CULTURE, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA and INDIAN COUNCIL OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH First Edition 2016 Published by MINISTRY OF CULTURE Government of India and INDIAN COUNCIL OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH 35, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi - 110 001 © ICHR & Ministry of Culture, GoI No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. ISBN 978-81-938176-0-5 Printed in India by MANAK PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD B-7, Saraswati Complex, Subhash Chowk, Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi 110092 INDIA Phone: 22453894, 22042529 [email protected] State Co-ordinators and their Researchers BENGAL BIHAR (Co-ordinator) (Co-ordinator) Subhash Ranjan Chakraborty Ashok Aounshuman Research Assistants Research Assistants Ata Mallick Madan Mishra Amrita Sengupta Sanjeet Kumar Arundhati Majumdar, Nishikant Kumar Archana Dhar Sunanda Chatterjee JHARKHAND ORISSA (Co-ordinator) (Co-ordinator) Indra Kumar Choudhary Subash Chandra Padhy Research Assistants Research Assistants Abdul Azim Akhtar Chitta Ranjan Satpathy Madhuparna Chakraborty Kabindra Kumar Sethy Preetam Das SusantKumar Sethi Assam and the North-East States (Co-ordinators) Priyam Goswami and Khawairakpam Premijit Singh Research Assistants Madhurja Protim Bordoli Manab Choudhury Binita Deka Joon Dulom vi Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom Struggle (1857-1947) Vol. 3 FROM THE GENERAL EDITOR The Government of India through its Ministry of Culture has kindly assigned to the Indian Council Historical of Research, this commendable activity of preparing a descriptive dictionary of those ìmartyrsî∑ (1857-1947). As a vital segment of this project, it was initiated by the National Implementation Committee at the time of celebrating the 150th anniversary of the revolt of 1857 and 60 years of Indiaís independence. The present Volume 4 has dealt with those who belonged to the eastern region of our country and attained martyrdom between 1857 and 1947. The region comprises Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam and the North-East Hill States. Our researchers at the Centre and in the States have endeavoured whole-heartedly to identify as many of those as possible who sacrificed their lives by taking part in such momentous developments as the great Rising of 1857, the tribal rebellions, the Revolutionary challenges, the Khilafat-cum-Non-Cooperation and the Civil Disobedience movements, the Individual Satyagraha and the ìQuit Indiaî upheaval, the peasantsí and workersí struggles and the Praja Mandal agitation in the Princely States, the Indian Legion and the Indian National Army (I.N.A.), the popular outbursts over the I.N.A. trials and the sharecroppersí Tebhaga outbreak, and so on and so forth. Our objective in the project has always been to try as best as we can in covering martyrs belonging to all the categories of Indian society, and to bring into focus not only the known, but also the barely known, the obscure and the forgotten (especially from the lower rungs of society), and enlist them into the liberated Indiaís roll of honour. However, since a work of this magnitude (on a country -wide scale) can never claim to be wholly complete, a supplementary Volume has been proposed to be part of the project plan to take care of any omission. For providing data about the martyrs (their background, occupation and * The definition of the ìmartyrs,î the previous efforts at producing compendiums on them (Centrally, and at the State level), and the shortcomings these suffered fromññhave all been referred to in the General Editor Note on the Volume 1 (part 1). viii Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom Struggle (1857-1947) Vol. 3 circumstances in which they met their death) and to authenticate their martyrdom from the primary sources (such as archival documents ñ official and non-official ñ and contemporary newspapers), besides the scattered secondary materials, the members of Central Research Team (CRT) of the project (beside their regular visits to the National Archives of India and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi) had undertaken several trips to different State Archives for reinforcing the efforts of the researchers at the State level. These were the West Bengal State Archives, Kolkata; Bihar State Archives, Patna; Odisha Sate Archives, and the N.A.I. Branch, Bhubaneswar; Assam State Archives, Guwahati, and the record offices in Shillong and Aizwal; Jharkhand State Archives, Ranchi, as well as the record offices in Hazaribagh, Chaibasa and Dumka; and a number of repositories and libraries in Delhi, Kolkata, Patna, Ranchi and Cuttack. I must express my gratefulness to the authorities and staff of these well-known institutions for kindly giving permission to our researchers to have access their valuable holdings, and offering all facilities and extending cooperation. Prof. Amit Kumar Gupta and members of his team ñ Dr. Ashfaque Ali, Dr. Md. Naushad Ali, Dr. Md. Shakeeb Athar, Mr. Muhammad Niyas and Mukesh Upadhyay ñ have put in a lot of hard labour and done an excellent job in researching and preparing Volume 4 for its publication. My special thanks to them as also to Mr. Pawan Kumar and Mr. Md. Ali who prepared the digital material for the press. I should also thank the co-ordinators of research teams in the States, and their members: Prof. Subhash Ranjan Chakravorty in Kolkata (with Mr. Ata Mallick, Ms.Amrita Sengupta, Ms. Arundhati Majumdar, Ms. Archana Dhar and Ms. Sunanda Chatterjee); Dr. Ashok Aounshuman in Patna (with Dr. Madan Mishra, Mr. Sanjeet Kumar and Mr. Nishikant Kumar); Prof. Indra Kumar Choudhari in Ranchi (with Dr. Abdul Azim Akhtar, Ms. Madhuparna Chakraborty and Mr. Preetam Das); Prof. Subash Chandra Pady in Berhampore (with Dr. C.R. Satpathy, Mr. Kabindra Kumar Sethy and Mr. Kumar Sethi); and Prof. Priyam Goswami in Guwahati, and Dr. Khawairakpam Premijit Singh in Aizwal (with Ms. Madhurja Protim Bordoli, Mr. Manab Choudhry, Ms. Binita Deka and Mr. Joon Dulom). I must also thank Professor Rajaneesh Kumar Shukla, the Member Secretary and Executive Editor of the Volume, and Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Dy Director (Research) for bestowing care on the project. I am very much beholden to Shri Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Hon'ble Minister of Culture Government of India, for his showing keen interest in the completion of this project and extending constant help and encouragement throughout. I take this opportunity to thank Shri Shripad Yesso Naik, Hon'ble Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Ayush, Government of India, who was formerly holding charge of the Ministry of Culture, for his kindness to extend the term of this project beyond its schedule condoning the shortcomings involved. My thanks are also due to Shri Raghvendra Singh, Secretary, Shri S.C. Barmma, Joint Secretary, Smt. Nirmala Goyal, Deputy Secretary, and Shri Arnab Aich, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, the Government of India, for their consistent support. Arvind P. Jamkhedkar ABBREVIATIONS Archival Records ABP Amrita Bazar Patrika Acc. Accession ACO Assam Commissionerís Office AICC All India Congress Committee (Papers ) AISPC All India States Peopleís Conference (Papers) ARPA Adminstrative Report of the Political Agency Sources b/o brother of BD Balasore District BSAP Bihar State Archives, Patna CID Criminal Investigation Department C & LNO Crown vs. Lakshman Naik and Others Col. Colonel Coll. Collection Comm. Commissioner Confd. Confidential Cr. P.C. Criminal Procedure Code CPI Communist Party of India CRR Crown Representative Records CS Chief Secretary CSP Congress Socialist Party CSR The Chancellorís Secretariat Record x Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom Struggle (1857-1947) Vol. 3 d/o daughter of DAMU Documents on Anglo-Manipur War DC Deputy Commissioner DCECDM District Calender of Events of the Civil Disobedience Movement DD Dhenkanal District Deptt Department distt. district Div. Division DM District Magistrate DP Duspalla Papers DSAA Directorate of State Archives, Assam Dy. Deputy ENC English Newspapers Collections F. File FR Fortnightly Report(s) G General GOB Government of Bengal Govt. Government H Home IB Intelligence Bureau ICHR Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi IG Inspector General IIL Indian Independence League INA Indian National Army IPC Indian Penal Code JPHALN Judgement of Patna High Court on the Appeal of Lakshman Naik Jud Judgement Judl Judicial JUG Jugantar KD Koraput District KPJRI K.P. Jayswal Research Institute, Patna KPM Kolkata Police Museum, Kolkata Abbreviations xi LPB List of