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{{Short description|Indian revolutionary and journalist}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Barindra Kumar Ghosh
| image = Barindra Kumar Ghosh 01.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Barindra Kumar Ghosh
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|1|5|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Croydon]], [[Surrey]], [[England]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Sanjukta|last=Dasgupta|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/books-education/a-horrendous-tale-1502535075.html/amp|title=A horrendous tale|website=www.thestatesman.com|publisher=The Statesman|access-date=18 January 2022}}</ref>
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|4|18|1880|1|5|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| occupation = Revolutionary, journalist
| relatives = [[Sri Aurobindo]] (brother)<br/>[[Manmohan Ghose]] (brother)
}}
{{Anushilan Samiti}}
'''Barindra Kumar Ghosh''' or '''Barindra Ghosh''', or popularly '''Barin Ghosh''' (5 January 1880 – 18 April 1959), was an [[Indian Bengali]] revolutionary and journalist.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Datta |first=Amaresh |title=Encyclopedia of Indian Literature |date=February 1991 |publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]] |year=1991 |isbn=9789995194093 |volume=2 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=1399 |language=en|chapter-url=|publication-date=February 1991|via=[[Internet Archive]]|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofin0002amar/page/n5/mode/2up}}</ref> In 1906, he founded the [[Bengali language|Bengali]] weekly ''[[Jugantar Patrika]]'' and later started a revolutionary group [[Jugantar|of the same name]] to further the revolutionary activities for the [[Indian independence movement|liberation of India]]. He was the younger brother of [[Sri Aurobindo]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Service |first=Statesman News |date=2023-12-21 |title=A chronicle of deportation and incarceration |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/supplements/miscellany/a-chronicle-of-deportation-and-incarceration-1503251892.html |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=The Statesman |language=en}}</ref> In 1908, Barindra was arrested, along with his 33 co-workers, and sentenced to death. On appeal, he was sent to life imprisonment. After serving 10 years, he was released as part of [[Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms|Montague-Chelmsford reforms]].<ref name=":0" />

He later edited the Bengali weekly ''[[Bejoli]]'', the English weekly ''[[The Dawn of India]]'', and the Bengali daily ''[[Dainik Basumati]]''. Among his other notable works are ''[[The Tale of My Exile]]'' (1922), ''[[Pather Ingit (essay collection)|Pather Ingit]]'' (1930), and the memoir ''[[Barinder Atmakatha (book)|Barinder Atmakatha]]''.<ref name=":0" />

==Early life==
Barindra Ghosh was born on 5 January, 1880, at [[Croydon|Croydon,]] [[South London]], in a [[Bengali Kayastha]] family. His ancestral village was at [[Konnagar]], [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]] of present-day [[West Bengal]].<ref name = "Bandyopadhyay6">Bandyopadhyay, Amritalal, ''Rishi Aurobindo'', 1964, Biswas Publishing House, p. 6</ref> His father, Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, was a physician and district surgeon. His mother was Swarnalata, the daughter of [[Rajnarayan Basu]], an author and intellectual during the [[Bengal Renaissance]]. Barindra's elder brother was [[Sri Aurobindo]]. His second elder brother, [[Manmohan Ghose]], was an English literature scholar, a poet and English professor at [[Presidency College, Calcutta]] and at [[Dhaka University]]. He also had an elder sister named Sarojini Ghosh.

Barindranath attended school in [[Deoghar]], and after passing the entrance examination in 1901, joined [[Patna College]]. He received military training in [[Baroda]]. During this time, Barin was influenced by Aurobindo and drawn towards the revolutionary movement.

== Revolutionary activities ==
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In 1902, Barin came back to Calcutta ([[List of renamed places in India#West Bengal|known as Kolkata since 2001]]), and started organising several revolutionary groups in Bengal with the help of [[Jatindranath Banerjee]]. In 1906, he started publishing ''[[Jugantar Patrika|Jugantar]]'', a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] weekly and a revolutionary organisation named [[Jugantar]] soon followed. Jugantar was formed from the inner circle of [[Anushilan Samiti]] and it started preparation for armed militancy activities to oust British from Indian soil.

Barin and Jatindranath Mukherjee alias [[Bagha Jatin]] were instrumental in the recruitment of many young revolutionaries from across Bengal. The revolutionaries formed the Maniktala group in [[Maniktala]], Kolkata. It was a secret place where they started manufacturing bombs and collected arms and ammunition.

Following the attempted killing of Kingsford by two revolutionaries [[Khudiram Bose|Khudiram]] and [[Prafulla Chaki|Prafulla]] on 30 April 1908, the police intensified its investigation which led to the arrest of Barin and Aurobindo Ghosh on 2 May 1908, along with many of his comrades. The trial (known as the [[Alipore Bomb Case]]) initially sentenced Aurobindo Ghosh, Barin Ghosh and [[Ullaskar Dutta|Ullaskar Datta]] to death. However, the sentence was reduced to life imprisonment, by Deshbandhu [[Chittaranjan Das]] and Barin was deported to the [[Cellular Jail]] in [[Andaman Islands|Andaman]] in 1909 along with other convicts.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-03-19 |title=A revolutionary in exile |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/a-revolutionary-in-exile/article3013628.ece |access-date=2024-03-01 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> In the [[Cellular Jail]], Barin Ghosh was locked up beside [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]] and he successfully managed to flee [[Cellular Jail]] in 1915.<ref>{{Cite web |title=নারকেল পিষে রোজ ২৫ কেজি তেল বানাতে হত |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/rabibashoriyo/they-had-to-make-25kg-oil-everyday-by-crushing-coconuts-1.657229 |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=www.anandabazar.com |language=bn}}</ref> But British caught Barin Ghosh again from [[Puri]] after [[Balasore]] Battle with Bagha Jatin.

== Release and later activities ==
Barin Ghosh successfully escaped from [[Cellular Jail]] and was the only freedom fighter to do so in 1915. He was hiding in [[Puri]] during Battle of [[Balasore]], where Bagha Jatin fought the British. Barin Ghosh was caught again from Puri and sent to [[Cellular Jail]] in Andamans. He was kept under solitary confinement for 5 long years. During a general amnesty in 1920, Barin was released and returned to Kolkata to start a career in journalism. Soon he left journalism and formed an ''[[ashram]]'' in [[Kolkata]]. He published his memoirs "The Tale of my Exile – Twelve Years in Andamans".<ref name="barin">{{cite book|first=Barindra Kumar|last=Ghose|title=The tale of my exile - twelve years in Andamans|publisher=Arya Publications|year=1922|place=Pondicherry|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924031246410/cu31924031246410_djvu.txt}}</ref> In 1923, he left for [[Pondicherry (city)|Pondicherry]] where his elder brother [[Sri Aurobindo|Aurobindo Ghosh]] had formed the [[Sri Aurobindo Ashram]]. He was influenced by Aurobindo towards spirituality and [[Sādhanā|Sadhana]]. Barin returned to [[Kolkata]] in 1929 and again took up journalism. In 1933 he started an English weekly, ''The Dawn of India''. He was associated with the newspaper ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'', and in 1950, he became the editor of the Bengali ''[[Dainik Basumati]]''. Around this time he got married. He died on 18 April 1959.<ref>{{Cite web |title=বারীন্দ্রকুমার ঘোষ |url=http://onushilon.org/corita/barindro-kumar-ghosh.htm |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=onushilon.org}}</ref>

==Works==
The following are books by Barindra Ghosh:
* ''Dvipantarer Banshi''
* ''Pather Ingit''
* ''Amar Atmakatha''
* ''Agnijug''
* ''Rishi Rajnarayan''
* ''The Tale of My Exile''
* ''Sri Aurobindo''<ref>{{Cite web |last=সংকলক |first=◄ ঘবারীন্দ্রকুমার ঘোষ জীবনী উপাত্ত |title=বারীন্দ্রকুমার ঘোষ - উইকিসংকলন একটি মুক্ত পাঠাগার |url=https://bn.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%95:%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%98%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B7 |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=bn.wikisource.org |language=bn}}</ref>

Other books
* Barindrakumar Ghosh, ''Pather Ingit'', Calcutta, 1337 ([[Bengali calendar|Bengali year]]).
* Upendra Nath Bandyopadhyaya, ''Nirbasiter Atmakatha'', Calcutta, 1352 ([[Bengali calendars|Bengali year]]).
* RC Majumdar, ''History of the Freedom Movement in India'', II, Calcutta, 1963.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Barindra Kumar Ghosh}}

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