Benoy Krishna Basu ( bn, বিনয় কৃষ্ণ বসু ''Binôe Boshu'') or Benoy Basu or Benoy Bose (11 September 1908 – 13 December 1930) was an Indian revolutionary against

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, who launched an attack on the Secretariat Building; the

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at the

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, along with

Badal Gupta Badal Gupta ( bn, বাদল গুপ্ত ''Badol Gupto''), real name Sudhir Gupta (1912 – 8 December 1930), was an Indian revolutionary against British rule in India, who is noted for launching an attack on the Secretariat Building - t ...

and Dinesh Chandra Gupta.

Early life

Basu was born on 11 September 1908, in the village Rohitbhog in the

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, then in British India. His father, Rebatimohan Basu was an engineer.

References

Bibliography

* ''Hemendranath Dasgupta, Bharater Biplab Kahini'', II & III, Calcutta, 1948; *

Ramesh Chandra Majumdar Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (known as R. C. Majumdar; 4 December 1888 – 11 February 1980) was a historian and professor of Indian history. Majumdar is a noted historian of modern India. He was a former Sheriff of Kolkata. Early life and educati ...

, ''History of the Freedom Movement in India'', III, Calcutta 1963; * Ganganarayan Chandra, Abismaraniya, Calcutta, 1966. {{DEFAULTSORT:Basu, Benoy 1908 births 1930 deaths Revolutionary movement for Indian independence Revolutionaries of Bengal during British Rule Indian revolutionaries 20th-century Bengalis Bengali Hindus People from Munshiganj District People from Bikrampur Indian independence activists from West Bengal