SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE

A PRIDE OF ODISHA, BORN TO PRABHAVATI BOSE AND JANAKINATH BOSE ON 23 JAN 1897 IN CUTTACK.  HE WAS THE NINTH CHILD OF HIS FAMILY AND THE 6^TH BOY. FIRST CHILD WAS BORN TO PRABHAVATI BOSE AT THE AGE OF 14 AND 13 CHILD AFTER WARD. JANAKINATH BOSE WAS A SUCCESSFUL LAWYER AND A GOVERNMENT PLEADER.  BOSE STARTED HIS SCHOOL LIFE BY 1902 IN THE BAPIST MISSION PROTESTANT EUROPEAN SCHOOL IN CUTTACK. IT WAS AN ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOL WHERE NO INDIAN LANGUAGE WERE TAUGHT.JANAKINATH CHOSED THE ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOLS FOR HIS BOYS SO THAT HIS SONS SPEAK ENGLISH FLAWLESSLY.

IN 1909 THE 12 YEARS HERO FOLLOWED TO RAVENSHAW COLLEGE WITH HIS FIVE ELDER BROTHER .IN 1912 HE SECURED THE SECOND POSITION IN THE MATRICULATION EXAM CONDUCTED BY UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA. HE AGAIN FOLLOWED HIS BROTHERS TO PRESIDENCY COLLEGE ,CALCUTTA IN 1913. HE CHOSED TO STUDY PHILOSOPHY. HIS READINGS INCLUDES KANT, BERGSON, AND OTHER WESTERN PHILOSOPHISTS.  DUE TO AN INCIDENT WITH E.FOATER PROFESSER OF HISTORY AT PRESIDENCY COLLEGE, HE WAS RUSTRICATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY AND TRANSFERRED BACK TO CUTTACK.  AS BOSE’S FAMILY WAS FAMILIAR WITH THE BRITISH RAJ GOVERNMENT, SO THEY PRESSURISED VICE CHANCELOR OF UNVERSITY OF CULCATTA. THEN IN 20 JULY 1917 SYNDICATE OF CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY GRANTED HIM PERMISSION TO RETURN, BUT TO JOIN ANOTHER COLLEGE. SO BOSE NEXT JOINED THE SCOTTISH CHURCH COLLEGE, AND RECEIVED HIS BA IN 1918 IN THE FIRST CLASS WITH HONOURS IN PHILOSOPHY AND PLACING SECOND AMONG CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY.  

NEXT FOR HIS FATHERS SAKE , BOSE AGREED TO TRAVEL TO ENGLAND TO PREPARE AND APPEAR THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICES EXAM  IN 1919. BUT FROM HALF HE RETURNED INDIA. AND IN 1921 , 24 AGED BOSE STEPS IN POLITICS. IN 1923 BOSE WAS ELECTED AS THE PRESIDENT OF ALL INDIA YOUTH CONGRESS AND ALSO THE SECETARY OF BENGAL STATE CONGRESS . AFTER ALL HE WAS ALSO THE EDITOR OF THE NEWS PAPER ‘FORWARD’ FOUNDED BY CHITTARANJAN DAS. NEXT ,IN 1924 BOSE WORKED AS THE CEO OF CALCUTTA MUNICIPAL  CORPORATION AND ALSO ELECTED AS MAYOR OF CALCUTTA.  AS IN POLITICS , IN 1925 BOSE WAS ARRESTED DUE TO ROUNDUP OF NATIONALIST AND SENT TO JAIL IN MANDALAY. IN THE JAIL HE SUFFERED WITH TUBERCULOSIS. IN 1927 , AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM PRISON , BOSE BECAME GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE CONGRESS PARTY AND WORKED WITH JAWAHARLAL NEHERU FOR INDEPENDENCE.

 

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