Batukeshwar Dutt

Batukeshwar Dutta
Dutta in 1952
Born(1910-11-18)18 November 1910
Oari Village Khandaghosh, Bengal Presidency, British India[1]
(present-day West Bengal, India)
Died20 July 1965(1965-07-20) (aged 54)
NationalityBritish Indian (1910–1947)
Indian (1947–1965)
OccupationFreedom Fighter
Organization(s)Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
Naujawan Bharat Sabha
Communist Consolidation
Known forIndian Freedom Movement
Criminal penaltyLife imprisonment

Batukeshwar Dutt (or Dutta, ; 18 November 1910 – 20 July 1965) was an Indian socialist and independence fighter in the early 1900s.[2] He is best known for having exploded two bombs, along with Bhagat Singh, in the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi on 8 April 1929. After they were arrested, tried and imprisoned for life, he and Singh initiated a historic hunger strike protesting against the abusive treatment of Indian political prisoners, and eventually secured some rights for them.[3] He was also a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.

  1. ^ "Batukeshwar Dutta". Archived from the original on 7 March 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  2. ^ Śrīkr̥shṇa Sarala (1999). Indian Freedom Fighter: A Comprehensive Study, 1757-1961. Ocean Books. pp. 110–. ISBN 978-81-87100-18-8. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  3. ^ Bhagat Singh Documents Hunger-strikers' Demands

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