Satyendra Chandra Mitra, Devangshu Datta

Satyendra Chandra Mitra was an Indian freedom fighter and advocate, who started his political career as a revolutionary in the Jugantar Party in 1916, was elected Chief Whip of the Swarajya Party in the Central Legislative Assembly and later became the President of the Bengal Legislative Council (of undivided Bengal). He was imprisoned in Mandalay Jail in Burma along with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose for his nationalist activities. You can read more about him and his work here.

 

Devangshu Datta is consulting editor and science and technology correspondent at the Business Standard. He is an editor, along with Nilanjana S. Roy and Anikendra Nath Sen, of Patriots, Poets and Prisoners.

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The Modern Review Special: When Netaji Subhas Bose Was Wrongfully Detained for ‘Terrorism’