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{{short description|Bengali revolutionary (1914-1997)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Kamakhya Charan Ghosh
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| birth_date = {{birth date text| 19 April 1914}}
| birth_place = [[Midnapore]], Bengal Presidency, British India
| death_date = {{death date and age text| 19 April 1997|19 April 1913}}
| death_place =[[Midnapore]], India
| known =
| occupation = Revolutionary
| organization = [[Bengal Volunteers]]
| movement = [[Indian Freedom Movement]]
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''' Kamakhya Charan Ghosh ''' (19 April 1914 – 19 April 1997 ) was an Indian revolutionary and member of the [[Bengal Volunteers]] who carried out assassinations against British colonial officials in an attempt to secure Indian independence.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.literacyparadise.com/2020/08/List-of-Bengali-Freedom-Fighters-in-Cellular-Jail.html | title=আন্দামান সেলুলার জেলের ৩৯০ জন বাঙালি স্বাধীনতা সংগ্রামীর তালিকা }}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Kamakhya Ghosh was born in[[Midnapore]] in the year 1914. After passing the matriculation examination from [[Midnapore Town School]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Human Rights and Peace: Ideas, Laws, Institutions and Movements|last=Ujjwal Kumar Singh|date= 2009|publisher=SAGE Publishing India |isbn=9789352801626}}</ref> he admitted to Midnapur College for further studies. Later he joined the Bengal Volunteers, a revolutionary organisation of [[British India]].<ref name=Sengupta-Basu>{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last1=Sengupta |first1=Subodhchandra |last2=Basu |first2=Anjali |publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|volume=I|location=Kolkata|page=297}}</ref>[[ File:Andaman_Cellular_Jail_-_Port_Blair_2009-04-15_4150245.JPG |thumb|Kamakhya Charan Ghosh 's name in Andaman Cellular Jail list, Port Blair 2009]]

== Revolutionary activities ==
After the murders of two previous [[District Magistrate]]s James Peddy and Robert Douglas, no British officer was ready to take charge of [[Midnapore district]]. Former soldier Bernard E. J. Burge was then posted to [[Midnapore district]].<ref name=Sengupta-Basu/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sabyasachi |first1=Biplabi |title=Historic Day: আজ অত্যাচারী ব্রিটিশ জেলাশাসক বার্জ হত্যার সেই ঐতিহাসিক দিন |url=https://biplabisabyasachi.com/that-was-the-historic-day-of-the-assassination-of-the-oppressive-british-district-magistrate-burge/ |website=Biplabi Sabyasachi |access-date=2 March 2024 |date=2 September 2021}}</ref> Members of the Bengal Volunteers: [[Ramkrishna Roy]], [[Brajakishore Chakraborty]], [[Prabhanshu Sekhar Pal]], Kamakhya Charan Ghosh, Sonatan Roy, Nanda Dulal Singh, Sukumar Sen Gupta, Bijoy Krishna Ghose, Purnananda Sanyal, Manindra Nath Choudhury, Saroj Ranjan Das Kanungo, Santi Gopal Sen, Sailesh Chandra Ghose, [[Anath Bondhu Panja]] and [[Mrigendra Dutta]] decided to assassinate him.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hssXP1hBYscC&q=Bhattacharya+killed+magistrate+Douglas&pg=PA254|title=History of the Freedom Movement in India (1857–1947)|last=S. N. Sen|year=1997|publisher=New Age International |isbn=9788122410495|access-date=11 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=বেঙ্গল ভলান্টিয়ার |last= Madhumanti Sengupta |publisher= Ananda Publishers |date= 1 January 2016 |isbn=978-9389876772|location= Kolkata |pages=}}</ref> Roy, Chakraborty, [[Nirmal Jibon Ghosh]] and Dutta planned to shoot Burge dead while he was playing in a football match between Midnapore Mohammedan sporting Club (a fan club of [[Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)]]) and Midnapore Town Club([[Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt|Bradley-Birt football tournament]]) at the police grounds of [[Midnapore]]. On 2 September 1933 during the half time of the football match on the police parade ground, Burge was shot and killed by Panja and Dutta. Panja was killed instantly by one of Burges' bodyguards. Dutta was also shot and died in hospital on the next day.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Who's Who of Indian Martyrs|first=P. N. | last=Chopra|volume=1|year=1969|publisher=Ministry of Education and Youth Services, Government of India |isbn=9788123021805}}</ref> Anath Bondhu Panja and Mrigendra Dutta were acquitted of the murder of Magistrate Burge.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Rammanohar Lohia|last=Volume 9|year=1990|isbn=9788171002511}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wbcorrectionalservices.gov.in/history_heritage03.html|title=Midnapore Central Correctional Home|website=wbcorrectionalservices.gov.in|access-date=24 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Chronological Dictionary of India's Independence|last=Kali Charan Ghosh|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2012|isbn=978-81-86806-20-3|location=Kolkata|pages=87}}</ref><ref name="midnapore-volunteers">{{cite web |title=Bengal Volunteers of Midnapore |url=https://www.midnapore.in/bv.html |website=www.midnapore.in |access-date=28 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1Pclr-6w94C&q=Nirmal+Jiban+Ghosh&pg=PA44|title=Rammanohar Lohia|last=Volume 9|year=1990|publisher=Deep & Deep Publications |isbn=9788171002511|access-date=24 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y74pDwAAQBAJ&q=Bhattacharya+killed+magistrate+Douglas&pg=PA151|title=Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India|last=Durba Ghosh|date=20 July 2017|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107186668|access-date=11 March 2018}}</ref> After the shootout he was arrested from the Salbani Jungle. He was subjected to inhuman torture by the Superintendent of Police in police custody, which was acknowledged by the judge. .<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/600128/|title= Emperor vs Nirmal Jiban Ghose And Ors. on 30 August, 1934|access-date=28 October 2021}}</ref> On 10 February 1934, a special tribunal sentenced him and six others to life imprisonment and moved to the Andaman Islands. He release from prison in 1946. before independence he spend more then 13 years in jail

== Later life ==
After the [[Independence of India]], , he became a member of the Communist Party. After the party was outlawed, he was imprisoned again and spent a total of nineteen years in prison at various stages. He led the peasant-labor organization. From 1967 to 1991. Ghosh was elected to the Legislative Assembly six times as a member of the Communist Party i.e. 1967,1969, 1979 (Repolling after Bankim Bihari Pals death), 1982, 1987, 1991.<ref name=eciwb67>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL|website=Election Commission of India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317110615/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |archive-date=17 March 2014 |language=en-IN}}</ref> From 1969 to 1980 he was also the secretary of the party's Midnapore district committee. He was a member of Vidyasagar University and Midnapore College Committee<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.midnapore.in/freedomfighters/kamakhya_ghosh.html|title= Kamakhya Charan Ghosh|website= midnapore.in }}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Indian nationalism]]
[[Category:Indian people convicted of murder]]
[[Category:People from Paschim Medinipur district]]
[[Category:Revolutionaries from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Bengali politicians]]
[[Category:Indian independence activists from Bengal]]
[[Category:Communist Party of India politicians from West Bengal]]

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