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| birth_date = 1869<br />
| birth_place = [[British India]] at Panchananpur village, [[Domkol subdivision]], [[Murshidabad district]]<br />
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| occupation = Politician, lawyer<br />
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| known_for = Active participation in the [[Indian freedom struggle]]<br />
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'''Braja Bhusan Gupta''' (1869–1940) was a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] nationalist politician, lawyer and active participant of the [[Indian freedom struggle]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Gupta was born in [[British India]] at Panchananpur village, in [[Domkol subdivision]], [[Murshidabad district]]. His father's name was Binodlal Gupta. He joined the anti [[Partition of Bengal (1905)]] movement in 1905.<ref name="Vol I 2002">{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol I|first=Subodh C. Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=370}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Gupta was a [[Gandhism|Gandhian]] politician and social worker. He was an eminent lawyer of his time, with immense knowledge of philosophy and [[English Literature]]. He established ''Jatiya Adarsha Vidyalaya'' in [[Baharampur]]. In 1921, District Congress Committee, Murshidabad was formed under his presidentship. Being the first president of the district committee of the [[Indian National Congress]] Gupta met top political leaders like [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], [[Sarojini Naidu]] and even [[Mahatma Gandhi]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W1QPWD0iBlQC&q=Braja+Bhusan+Gupta&pg=PA107|title=Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Indian Freedom Struggle|last=Ratna Ghosh|website=|year=2006|isbn=9788176298438|access-date=4 March 2018}}</ref> He hosted ''Desbandhu'' [[Chittaranjan Das]] in spite of the police threat in his home. He presided over the [[Krishnath College School]] first ''Jela Chatra Sammilani'' in 1927.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/166000/10/10_chapter%205.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305064512/http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/166000/10/10_chapter%205.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 March 2018|title=THE INTELLIGENTSIA OF MURSHIDABAD|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=4 March 2018}} </ref><ref name="Vol I 2002" /><br />
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[[Category:Indian independence activists from West Bengal]]<br />
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