Pulin Behari Das (died on 17 August 1949) was an Indian revolutionary and the founder-president of the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti. Pulin came from a middle class Bengali Hindu family. Pulin was born to Naba Kumar Das in the village of Lonesingh, in the district of Shariatpur in the year 1877. Pulin passed the Entrance examination from Faridpur Zilla School in 1894.
He attended the Dhaka College and became the laboratory assistant and demonstrator whiles still a student at the college. From his childhood Pulin was attracted to physical culture. He was a very good lathial. Inspired by the success of Sarala Devi's akhada in Kolkata, he opened an akhara at Tikatuli in 1903. In 1905, he trained in fencing and lathi khela under Murtaza, the famous lathial.
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