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Title: Bipin Chandra Pal (7 November 1858 - 20 May 1932)
Keywords: Pal, Bipin Chandra, 1858-1932;Notable personalities- Jadavpur University
Issue Date: 2005
Description: Bipin Chandra Pal was an important revolutionary leader in the struggle for India's independence and a famous orator. In 1874, he passed the Entrance examination and won a scholarship. He went to Church Missionary College, Calcutta, and Presidency College. In 1879, he joined a school in Cuttack as Principal. He later taught in many places including Sylhet, Calcutta and Bangalore. A political disciple of Surendranath Banerjee, Pal soon became active in the nationalist struggle. In 1898 the Brahmo Samaj offered him a scholarship which enabled him to go abroad. In 1901, he edited and published New India Weekly. A prominent leader of the movement against the Partition of Bengal, he was also the first editor of the daily Vande Mataram (founded on 6 August 1906). Differences of opinion led him to resign from the editorial board, but when Aurobindo Ghosh was charged and arrested for treason, he again took up the responsibility. In 1907 he refused to be deposed against Ghosh, the former editor of Vande Mataram, and was imprisoned for six months. He went abroad for the second time in 1908. Pal published two other journals, Surat and Indian Student. On the charge of publishing a seditious essay in Swarny entitled "The Actiology of the Bomb in Bengal", he was imprisoned on his return to India after three years. As essayist and author, he gained immense popularity between 1912 and 1915. He returned to active politics in 1916. His views were those of the 'extremists' in the nationalist configurations of the time. He is usually grouped with Lala Lajpat Rai and Bal Gangadhar Tilak, part of the trio sometimes referred to as Lal-Bal-Pal. One of the founding members of the National Council of Education, Bengal, Pal accepted the responsibility of Rector of the National University in 1927-8. He encouraged the education of women and campaigned for their rights. During the First World War, he abandoned his extremist stand in politics and joined Annie Besant's Home Rule Movement. He was editor of several famous newspapers in English and Bengali such as Paridarsbak, New India, The Hindu Review and Democrat. His works include Jail-er Khata, Nabajuger Bangla, Charitra Chitra, Sahitya o Sadbana, Markin-e-Chari Mash and the autobiography Sattar Batsar.
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