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Published: 12:46 AM, 06 December 2018 Last Update: 12:48 AM, 06 December 2018
Dinesh Chandra Gupta
Dinesh Chandra Gupta (or Dinesh Gupta ) was a Bengali revolutionary who fought against British colonial rule. Dinesh Gupta was born on 6 December 1911 in Josholong in Munshiganj District, now in Bangladesh.
While he was studying in Dhaka College, Dinesh joined Bengal Volunteers - a group organised by Subhas Chandra Bose in 1928, at the occasion of Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress.
Soon the Bengal Volunteers transformed itself to a more active revolutionary association and planned to liquidate infamous British police officers. For a short while, Dinesh Gupta was in Midnapore training local revolutionaries in the use of firearms.
Revolutionaries trained by him were responsible for the assassination of three District Magistrates in succession, Douglas, Burge, and Peddy. Dinesh Gupta translated a short story of Anton Chekhov which was published in Prabasi Magazine.
