P RIVATE AND CO NFIDENTIAL . P O L I T I C A L A G I T A T O R S I N D I A . S . 05 C r. C S ECRET. S UR EN D RA NAT H BANE RJEA ( O F CALCUTTA) . l Born about 1 848 . Educated at Doveton C o 1 9 6 1 . 5 867 . A . lege , Calcutta , from to B , Calcutta , 1 8 6 9 . I ndi n Proceeded to England, passed into the a S I n di 1 871 . Was Civil ervice , and came out to a in I n 1 3 a r posted to S ylhet District . 87 he w s repo ted for o o e to Government seri us misc nduct , the Judg s of the High Court h olding that he was unfit for the A exercise of a ny judicial po wers . commission was 1 accordingly appointed and 4 charges fram ed . He was found guilty of falseho od and of a palpable " abuse of his j udicial powers and the S ecretary of S tate directed his removal from the service . (Des patch 3 l st March He was given a compas si nate o allowance of R s . 50 a month . S ince then he has been an uncompromising opponent of the system of Government under which f - he failed . He is the father o anti British agitation in Bengal , especially among the student community with whom he has great influence . He founded the R a nd ipon College , it was at a meeting held in this college on 1 7th Ju ly 1 9 05 that the boycott movement l was inaugurated in Be nga . H as edited f or many years the Bengalee news - paper . Has identified himself with the anti Parti tion agitation and devotes most of his energy to keep A ing it alive . very good speaker in English , with a good voice and a fluent delivery ; but his political] on so writings and speeches , based as they are per nal . w spite against Government , ring hollow He sho s no more honesty as a public man than he did as a of public servant . He is accused by the extremists v ant of courage and has long bee n thrown over by i e t m . S 05 C r. 2 In the anti -P artition agitation he has been sup ’ H on ble ported , particularly this year, by the Babu Bh upendran ath Bose through the latter he was - - . R at able to prevail upon Mr Abdul asul , Bar . Law, to preside and make a speech . His obj ect in doing so is to show that the feeling against the partition is not fi u ah ome con ned to Hind s , and to try to get the M dans to j oin in the agitation . To this end he has associated with himself from or M ah o d time to time one two m e an paid agitators . These j ackals of the swadeshi lion are sometimes put up at meetings to say things which are too low or too obviously false for S urenderanath to say hi m self . T h e following are the principal among them 1 ( l) Liakat Husain (of C alcutta) . I s an elderly Mah om edan of the Patna district of to . no standing , and said be of immoral character A r to paid agitato , used by the Hindus work up the M ah om edans of Eastern Bengal against the Parti adeshi Beadon tion . Also used to lecture on S w in S on S quare , Calcutta , undays , and paraded the streets with parties of boys . Convicted of sedition - and stirring up race hatred (sections 1 2 4 A . and 1 53 - A I ndi n , a Penal Code) , at Barisal in January 1 908 1 91 0 released in , and took part in the anti 1 1 partition demonstration in C alcutta in October 9 0 . (2) D in Mahomed. Born about 1 850 in Dacca District . By birth a - of high caste Brahmin , son Govinda Chandra Ganguli of Bakarganj District , Eastern Bengal . a rahm o S ama ist . P oor education . Became B j He is said on one occasion to have shot a calf mistaking it for a boar he applied for advice on the religious point raised first to the Hindu Pandits , but fail i ng to get satisfaction from them turned to the Mahm 3 u e medan Maulvis . Was pers aded by them to embrac Islam and took the name of Din Mahomed . He was first a religious lecturer and anti- kine killing agitator After the partition he was made swadeshi 1 907 use of as a lecturer , and in was being s 3 . paid R . 0 a month by a Calcutta society Has frequently delivered speeches at meetings presided dr th over by S uren ana . (3) Abul Kasim (of C alcutta) . 1 of Born about 873 . Nephew Maulvi Abdul ubb er . Be J , late Presidency Magistrate , Calcutta longs to Burdwan and has some landed property A f . o there B . Calcutta University As his uncle ref used to help hi m to be come a Deputy Magistrate he S became a political agitator . aid to be a good speaker in Bengali . (4) D edar Bux. 1 5 A Mah omedan Born about 8 2 . low class of th e B of F o n oogly District, son a o d I spector in the Commissariat Department . Calls himself a Maulvi kn r but ows no Persian o Urdu . 5 BHUP END RA NAT H B S H O B B — O E , T E H N A U ( O F CALCUTTA) . u 1 860 son o R Born abo t , f the late Lal atan K H oo l . I s A Bose of hanakul , g y District a B . , F i . B es d es B . L and a ellow of Calcutta University in Calcutta . Practises as an attorney in the High Co urt and has a large income from this . Has land ed property in Calcutta and zemi ndari s in Gaya and d f Muz afi arpur Districts . He was Presi ent o the Bengal Provincial Conference held at Mymensingh in 1 9 0 5; and took a leading p art in S wadeshi and anti - partition meetings in Calcutta during the next tr f ew years . He was usted neither by the people nor by the Government , one day posing a s a dema gogue and next day conferring with the Lieutenant 1 9 1 0 Governor at Belvedere . In , although a Mem ’ s ber of the Viceroy Council , he took a leading part t r along with S urendrana h Bane j ea and K . K . Mitter - s r in the anti partition demon t ation in C alcutta . 7 SAC HIN D RA PRASAD BOS E (O F CALCUTTA) . Born about 1 883 . Belongs to the Jessore dis tr ct of i (Bengal) . At the time the partition he was f a student in the 4th year class o the City College . In 1 905 he made speeches suggesting that all stu dents should leave their schools unless the Govern a ment Circular , issued in that ye r , against their par tici ation p in politics was withdrawn , and he after wards organised the Anti - Circular S ocie ty in m 1 9 1 9 the sa e connection . In 06 and 07 he visited many places in both Bengals supporting the boycott in strong language and organising Volunteer societies . 1 a hindr K . In December 908 S c a was staying at K . ’ Mitter s and of house , was one his active lieutenants ' A nusilan S amzti o f of in organising the Calcutta , which he was reported to be th e Inspector of Branches . as 1 908 He w deported in December , his chief ’ e K M tter s K . i importance b ing that he was . lieu e t nant . Otherwise he is a person of little conse o quenc . 9 SHYAM S UNDAR CHAKRAVARTY (O F CA LC UIT A ) . 1 870 Bh aren a l. Born about at g , Pabna , Benga H e was known as an agitator before the Partition . e A rabindo H numbered among his friends Ghose , - at- f P . Mitter (Bar . Law and supporter o the physi . C . cal force party, lately deceased) , B Pal , and Brahmobandh ab Upadhyaya (editor of the rev olu tionar S andh a y y , who died while on bail under trial for sedition) . S hyam S undar in his early days devoted his attention to strikes and labour troubles , and again in July and August 1 906 he was busy encourag 7 . 1 90 ing the strikers in the E I R . strikes . In and 9 8 1 0 he attended numerous extremist meetings , of Ar bin often in the company a do Ghose . 1 905 S ub - of S andh a and In he was Editor the y , ’ at the end of 1 906 he left it for Arabindo G h ose s Bande M ata e paper the mm . He was on of the directors of this paper and second only to A rabindo m Ghose in its manage ent . was d in D r 1 He deporte ecembe 908 . S 05 C r. 1 1 BHUP END RANAT H D UTT (O F CALCUTTA) . f Born about 1 884 at Calcutta . Brother o the late S wami Vivekananda of the R a m K rishna Mis .