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    Early Life and Involvement in The Freedom Movement: 7. Khudiram Bose

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    Matangini Hazra was an Indian revolutionary who participated in the independence movement until her death in 1942. She was affectionately known as "Gandhi buri." Hazra was born in 1869 in a small village near Tamluk and did not receive a formal education. She became actively involved in the independence movement in 1905 as a follower of Gandhi. Hazra took part in the Civil Disobedience movement in 1932 and was arrested for violating the Salt Act. As part of the Quit India Movement in 1942, the 71-year-old Hazra led 6,000 supporters toward the Tamluk police station but was shot and killed after refusing police orders to disband. She continued chanting patriotic slogans

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    Matangini Hazra was an Indian revolutionary who participated in the independence movement until her death in 1942. She was affectionately known as "Gandhi buri." Hazra was born in 1869 in a small village near Tamluk and did not receive a formal education. She became actively involved in the independence movement in 1905 as a follower of Gandhi. Hazra took part in the Civil Disobedience movement in 1932 and was arrested for violating the Salt Act. As part of the Quit India Movement in 1942, the 71-year-old Hazra led 6,000 supporters toward the Tamluk police station but was shot and killed after refusing police orders to disband. She continued chanting patriotic slogans

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    Matangini Hazra was an Indian revolutionary who participated in the independence movement until her death in 1942. She was affectionately known as "Gandhi buri." Hazra was born in 1869 in a small village near Tamluk and did not receive a formal education. She became actively involved in the independence movement in 1905 as a follower of Gandhi. Hazra took part in the Civil Disobedience movement in 1932 and was arrested for violating the Salt Act. As part of the Quit India Movement in 1942, the 71-year-old Hazra led 6,000 supporters toward the Tamluk police station but was shot and killed after refusing police orders to disband. She continued chanting patriotic slogans

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    Matangini Hazra (19 October 1870 [1] 29 September 1942[2]) was an Indian revolutionary who

    participated in the Indian independence movement until she was shot dead by the British
    Indian police in front of the Tamluk Police Station (of erstwhile Midnapore District) on 29 September
    1942. She was affectionately known as Gandhi buri, Bengali for old lady Gandhi.[3]

    Early life and involvement in the freedom movement[edit]


    Not much is known of Matangini Hazra's early life apart from that she was born in the small village of
    Hogla, near Tamluk in 1869, and that because she was the daughter of a poor peasant, she did not
    receive a formal education.[4]She was married early and became widowed at the age of eighteen
    without bearing any offspring[3]
    In 1905, she became actively interested in the Indian independence movement as a Gandhian.[4] A
    notable feature of the freedom struggle in Midnapore was the participation of women. [5] In 1932, she
    took part in the Civil Disobedience movement and was arrested for breaking the Salt Act. She was
    promptly released, but protested for the abolition of the tax. Arrested again, she was incarcerated for
    six months at Baharampur.[3] After being released, she became an active member of the Indian
    National Congress and took to spinning her own Khadi. In 1933, she attended the subdivisional
    Congress conference at Serampore and was injured in the ensuing baton charge by the police.[3]

    Involvement in the Quit India Movement


    As part of the Quit India Movement, members of the Congress planned to take over the various
    police stations of Medinipore district and other government offices.[3]This was to be a step in
    overthrowing the British government in the district and establishing an independent Indian state.
    Hazra, who was 71 years at the time, led a procession of six thousand supporters, mostly women
    volunteers, with the purpose of taking over the Tamluk police station.[4][5] When the procession
    reached the outskirts of the town, they were ordered to disband under Section 144 of the Indian
    Penal Code by the Crown police.[4] As she stepped forward, Hazra was shot once.[4] Apparently, she
    had stepped forward and appealed to the police not to open fire at the crowd. [3]
    The Biplabi newspaper of the parallel Tamluk National Government commented:
    Matangini led one procession from the north of the criminal court building; even after the firing
    commenced, she continued to advance with the tri-colour flag, leaving all the volunteers behind. The
    police shot her three times. She continued marching despite wounds to the forehead and both
    hands.[5]
    As she was repeatedly shot, she kept chanting Vande Mataram, "hail to the Motherland". She died
    with the flag of the Indian National Congress held high and still flying

    7. Khudiram Bose:

    One of the youngest freedom fighters ever, Khudiram Bose became a martyr
    at the age of 18. Most youngsters of the day at this age cant even tell the
    difference between January 26 and August 15.

    Under the pseudonym of Haren Sarkar, Khudiram Bose worked for the
    Indian Independence Movement. He was only 16 years when he had created
    mayhem by planting bombs near police stations and other Government
    offices.
    He is associated with the famous Muzaffarpur bombing.

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