Born in 1889 in a small village in Midnapore district (now in West Bengal), Khudiram Bose was drawn towards revolutionary activities from a rather young age after being inspired by public lectures delivered by Sri Aurobindo and sister Nivedita.
After actively participating in protests following the partition of Bengal, Bose joined organisations behind revolutionary activities and learnt how to make bombs.
Along with another revolutionary, Prafulla Chaki, Bose was tasked with the assassination of a British judge, Douglas Kingsford. Kingsford had earned the ire of the revolutionaries following his clamping down on revolutionaries.
In April 1908, Bose and Chaki threw a bomb on a carriage that they suspected carried Kingsford. Kingsford, however, was not in the carriage. Those in the carriage – the wife and daughter of another barrister named Pringley Kennedy – died.
Bose was arrested in a railway station called Waini, a place he had reached by walking 40 km. While Chaki killed himself to avoid being arrested, Bose went through a trial before being eventually executed in August 1908.
Did you know?
As a teenager who was executed, Khudiram Bose is among the youngest revolutionary freedom fighters to have been executed.
Unaware that Prafulla Chaki had shot himself, Bose initially tried to take the entire responsibility for the incident himself in the hope that he could protect Chaki. Only after realising that Chaki had died that Bose revealed that both of them were involved in the event.
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