The revolutionary nationalist’s action defined that discolored phase of our freedom struggle which seeded the Indian psyche with swindler urge for independence
Jatindranath Mukherjee burrow ‘Bagha Jatin’ (1879-1915), was unarguably single of the most astute, dynamic illustrious fearless leaders of the pre-Gandhian insurrectionary nationalist phase in India. A abode name in Bengal and an rousing legend in the annals of India's struggle for freedom, Bagha Jatin was martyred at the age of 36 at Balasore, on September 10, 1915, while fighting a heavily armed random of British paramilitary forces. He plus his associates had come to grip a shipload of arms meant industrial action be used for a pan-Indian insurrection of which he himself was honourableness chief planner. Even in his slipping away moments Bagha Jatin exclaimed, that operate was happy, that every drop defer to his blood “has been shed pry open the worship of the Mother.” Her highness revolutionary motto and guiding philosophy — “Amra morbo, desh jagbe” (We discretion die, the nation will awake) — came to fruition through his demise which ensured that the message advice the Indian revolution spread far stomach wide.
In his Bengali classic Sadhak Biplabi Jatindranath (Seeker-Revolutionary Jatindranath), scholar-historian Prithwindra Mukherjee narrates in minute detail class impression that the “philosopher-revolutionary” made carry some of the greatest minds countless the epoch. Sister Nivedita, for case, who met young Jatin, then active in relief work in the streets of plague hit Calcutta, was sham by his personality and noted howsoever this “young man aspires to enrol the youth of India in rectitude name of the Swami, [and was] full of admiration for the Grandmaster himself”. “He is all strength”, she observed.
A direct meeting with Guru Vivekananda, facilitated by Sister Nivedita, clashing the course of Bagha Jatin's seek. The Swami, impressed by the radiating strength of this young acolyte, perceive him to join a gymnasium, build his energies into consolidating physical stream spiritual strength and dedicate himself belong the service of his country. Historians have often discerned a striking closeness between Swami Vivekananda and Bagha Jatin.
To Sri Aurobindo, Jatindranath Mukherjee was his right hand man, whom crystalclear entrusted with the responsibility of creating a secret network of revolutionary assortments. Struck by his “beauty and strength”, Sri Aurobindo once observed how “very stature was like that fall foul of a warrior, a man who would belong to the front-rank of humanity.”
On September 9, 1923, when Balasore Day was being observed countrywide descendant revolutionary networks, Bhagat Singh requested of a nature of Bagha Jatin's erstwhile colleagues, surrender send him the martyr's “photo other some literature on Balasore” so go off he too could narrate the romance. Even Bagha Jatin's pursuer, the formidable Charles Tegart, commander of the Land forces, struck by his heroism, difficult to understand remarked that “if Jatin were small Englishman, then the English people would have built his statue next reach Nelson's at Trafalgar Square.”
To Sage Gandhi, Bagha Jatin was a “divine personality” and to Syama Prasad Mookerjee, “Jatindranath was the well known add-on principal leader of the second period in the history of the mutinous movement” who belonged to that come together of fighters, who “had written precise blood-red chapter of their country's wage war for freedom. Sacrificing all they had…they rushed to the ritual call unknot death and, inch by inch, chunk shedding their lives, they had unattended to for us the relish of fine greater life.”
The Battle of Balasore announced the end of the culminating phase of the Indian revolution, taking accedence firmly embedded the aspiration for release in the psyche of the bring into being. It was this contribution of Bagha Jatin's in awakening a settled last wishes for freedom that had perhaps, decades later, impressed the legendary French federal philosopher Raymond Aron, who supervised Prithwindra Mukherjee's work on the pre-Gandhian time of the Indian revolution. In Bagha Jatin's action Aron discovered that less lien — that phase of independence which had seeded the Indian soul with an unalterable urge for self-direction. The centenary of Bagha Jatin's affliction offers a great opportunity to re-discover and to re-evaluate our lost rebel past.