SACHINDRA NATH SANYAL

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Context

The nation remembers Revolutionary Sachindra Nath Sanyal on his 80th death anniversary.

Details

About

Contribution

He was the founder of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA, which after 1928 became the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association) that was created to carry out armed resistance against the British Empire in India. Sanyal founded a branch of the Anushilan Samiti in Patna in 1913.
In 1912 Delhi Conspiracy Trial Sanyal with Rashbehari Bose attacked the then Viceroy Hardinge while he was making entry into new capital of Delhi after annulment of Bengal Partition. Hardinge was injured.
He was extensively involved in the plans for the Ghadar conspiracy, and went underground after it was exposed in February 1915. He was a close associate of Rash Behari Bose.
After Bose escaped to Japan, Sanyal was considered the most senior leader of India's revolutionary movement.

Beliefs

Sanyal was known for his firm Hindu beliefs, although most of his followers were Marxists and thus opposed to religions.
Bhagat Singh discusses Sanyal's beliefs in his tract why I am an Atheist.

Mentor

Sanyal and Gandhi

Sanyal and Mahatma Gandhi engaged in a famous debate published in Young India between 1920 and 1924.
Sanyal argued against Gandhi's gradualist approach.

Sentence and writings

Sanyal was sentenced to life for his involvement in the Kakori conspiracy and was imprisoned at Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where he wrote his book titled Bandi Jeevan (A Life of Captivity, 1922).
Sanyal has the unique distinction of having been sent to the Cellular Jail in Port Blair twice.