Surya Sen

Surya Sen was a revolutionary who was influential in the Indian independence movement(against British rule) who is noted for leading the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid In Chittagong of Bengal in British India (now in Bangladesh). Sen was a school teacher by profession and was popularly called as Master Da ("da" is a honorific suffix in Bengali language).

In 1918 he was selected as president of Indian National Congress, Chittagong branch. Sen was born on 22 March 1894 at Noapara, under Raozan Upazila in Chittagong.

His father Ramaniranjan Sen was a teacher. In 1916 when he was a B.A. student in Berhampore College he learned about Indian freedom movement from one of his teachers. He felt attracted towards revolutionary ideals and joined a revolutionary organization Anushilan Samity.