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| name = Badal Gupta<br />
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| native_name = বাদল গুপ্ত<br />
| native_name_lang = bn<br />
| birth_date = {{birth year|1912}}<br />
| birth_place = Purba Shimulia, [[Bikrampur]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />(now in Bangladesh)<br />
| death_date = 8 December {{dya|1930|1912}}<br />
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />(now in India)<br />
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| known_for = [[Writers' Building]] attack<br />
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{{Benoy Badal Dinesh}}<br />
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'''Badal Gupta''' ({{lang-bn|বাদল গুপ্ত}} ''Badol Gupto''), real name Sudhir Gupta (1912 – 8 December 1930), was an Indian revolutionary against [[British Raj|British rule in India]], who is noted for launching an attack on the Secretariat Building - the [[Writers' Building]] in the [[B.B.D. Bagh|Dalhousie square]] in [[Kolkata]], along with [[Benoy Basu]] and [[Dinesh Gupta]].<br />
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==Early activities==<br />
Badal Gupta was born in the village Purba Shimulia (East Shimulia) in the [[Bikrampur]] region of [[Dhaka District|Dhaka]], now in [[Munshiganj District]], [[Bangladesh]].<ref name="banglapedia">{{cite book |last=Mohanta |first=Sambaru Chandra |year=2012 |chapter=Gupta, Badal |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Gupta,_Badal |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> Badal was inspired by Nikunja Sen, a teacher of the Banaripara School of Bikrampur, and as a result, Badal joined the [[Bengal Volunteers]]. Badal Gupta was also influenced by the revolutionary activities of his two paternal uncles Late Dharaninath Gupta and Nagendranath Gupta, who were involved in the Alipore Bomb Case and were imprisoned along with Rishi Aurobindo Ghosh.<br />
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==The battle at Writers' Building==<br />
Bengal Volunteers targeted Lt Col NS Simpson, the Inspector General of Prisons, who was infamous for the oppression of the prisoners in the jails.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} The revolutionaries decided not only to murder him, but also to strike a terror in the British official circles by launching an attack on the Secretariat Building - the [[Writers' Building]] in the [[B.B.D. Bagh|Dalhousie square]] in [[Kolkata]].<br />
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On 8 December 1930, Badal along with [[Dinesh Gupta]] and [[Benoy Basu|Benoy]], dressed in European costume, entered the Writers' Building and shot dead Simpson. Police in the building started firing at them in response. What ensued was a brief gunfight between the three young revolutionaries and the police. Some other officers like Twynam, Prentice, and Nelson suffered injuries during the shooting. <br />
Soon police overpowered them. However, the three did not wish to be arrested. Badal took [[Potassium cyanide]], while Benoy and Dinesh shot themselves with their own [[revolvers]]. Badal died on the spot.<br />
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==Significance==<br />
After [[Partition of India|independence]], the Dalhousie Square was named [[B. B. D. Bagh]] - after the Benoy-Badal-Dinesh trio. In memory of their Writers' Building attack, a plate was engraved in the wall of Writers' Building, first floor.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* Hemendranath Dasgupta, Bharater Biplab Kahini, II & III, Calcutta, 1948;<br />
* [[Ramesh Chandra Majumdar]], History of the Freedom Movement in India, III, Calcutta 1963;<br />
* Ganganarayan Chandra, Abismaraniya, Calcutta, 1966.<br />
* Aamar Mama Badal Gupta: A memoir by Biswanath Dasgupta 2020<br />
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