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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Dinesh Gupta<br />
| image = Freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta.tif<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|12|06|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Munshiganj|Bikrampur]], [[Eastern Bengal and Assam]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1931|07|07|1911|12|06|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Alipore Jail]], [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
| death_cause = Execution by hanging<br />
| other_names =<br />
| alma_mater = [[Dhaka College]]<br />
| occupation =<br />
| known_for = [[Writers' Building]] attack<br />
| mother =Binodini Devi<br />
| father =Satish Chandra Gupta<br />
| relatives =<br />
}}<br />
{{Benoy Badal Dinesh}}<br />
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'''Dinesh Chandra Gupta''' ({{langx|bn|দীনেশচন্দ্র গুপ্ত}} ''Dinesh Chôndro Gupto'') or '''Dinesh Gupta''' (6 December 1911 – 7 July 1931) 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 [[Calcutta]], along with [[Badal Gupta]] and [[Benoy Basu]].<br />
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[[Rabindrasangeet]] exponent and trainer Maya Sen (maiden name Gupta) was his niece. Even he suggested his sister-in-law Ashalata Gupta to let Maya learn Rabindrasangeet. His nephew and Maya's brother, Tapan Gupta, was a doctor and established 'the Tagoreans' in London. Mr. Gupta's daughter is an MBE, [[Tanika Gupta]], a playwright and regularly works for BBC and the stage in England.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}<br />
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==Early activities==<br />
Dinesh Gupta was born on 6 December 1911 in Josholong in [[Munshiganj District]], now in [[Bangladesh]].<ref name="bp">{{cite book |last=Mohanta |first=Sambaru Chandra |year=2012 |chapter=Gupta, Dinesh Chandra |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Gupta,_Dinesh_Chandra |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> While he was studying in [[Dhaka College]], Dinesh joined [[Bengal Volunteers]] - a group organized by [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] in 1928, on the occasion of the Calcutta session of the [[Indian National Congress]]. Soon, the Bengal Volunteers transformed itself to a more active revolutionary association and planned to assassinate certain [[Indian Imperial Police]] officers. For a short while, Dinesh Gupta was in [[Midnapore]] training local revolutionaries in the use of firearms. Revolutionaries trained by him were responsible for the assassination of three District Magistrates in succession, Douglas, Burge, and Peddy.<br />
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==The battle of Writers' Building==<br />
The association targeted Lt Col NS Simpson, the Inspector General of Prisons, who was infamous for his mistreatment of the prisoners in the jails.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} The revolutionaries decided not only to murder him, but also to strike terror in British colonial circles by launching an attack on the Secretariat Building - the [[Writers' Building]] in the [[Dalhousie Square]] in [[Kolkata]].<br />
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On 8 December 1930, Dinesh, along with [[Benoy Basu]] and [[Badal Gupta]], dressed in European costume, entered the Writers' Building and shot dead Simpson. Nearby police 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 />
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Soon, police overpowered them. However, the three did not wish to be arrested. [[Badal Gupta]] took Potassium cyanide, while Benoy and Dinesh shot themselves with their own revolvers. Benoy was taken to the hospital, where he died on 13 December 1930.<br />
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==The trial and hanging==<br />
However, Dinesh survived the near-fatal injury. He was convicted and sentenced to death.<br />
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While in [[Alipore Jail]], he wrote letters to his sister. He was hanged on 7 July 1931 at Alipore Jail. Soon after that, [[Kanailal Bhattacharjee]] took revenge for the hanging by killing Judge Ralph Reynolds Garlick (the judge of the Dinesh Gupta case) on 27 July 1931.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=Shahid Dinesh (Bengali) |last=Prithwish C. Gupta |publisher=Shrayan |year=2016 |isbn=978-81-926712-6-0 |location=Kolkata |pages=81}}</ref><br />
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== Writings ==<br />
Dinesh Gupta translated a short story by [[Anton Chekhov]], which was published in ''[[Prabasi]]'' Magazine. He also wrote 92 letters from the condemned cell of the Alipore Central Jail. A few to his sister in law ({{lang|bn-Latn|boudi}}) Ashalata Gupta.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1080615/jsp/frontpage/story_9414008.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619025659/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080615/jsp/frontpage/story_9414008.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 June 2008 |title=Hanged Bengali icon's great-niece bags MBE |first=Amit |last=Roy |date=15 June 2008 |work=The Telegraph |location=India |access-date=2 August 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Significance==<br />
Benoy, Badal, and Dinesh were treated as martyrs by supporters in Bengal and other parts of India. After [[Partition of India|independence]], Dalhousie Square was named [[B. B. D. Bagh]] - after the Benoy-Badal-Dinesh trio. In memory of their writers' attack, a plate was engraved in the wall of the Writers' Building, first floor.<br />
[[File:Memory of martyrdom.jpg|thumb|Memory of martyrdom]]<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 />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Gupta,_Dinesh_Chandra<br />
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