Pravat Chakraborty was born in 1901, at Tipperah in colonial Eastern India. Coming from a middle-class Hindu upper-caste family, he was attracted by the Swadeshi Movement-generated anti-colonial political climate in Eastern Bengal. He joined Anushilan Samiti, one of the two principal revolutionary nationalist groups while in school. In 1921, at the peak of Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movements, which turned into a post-First World War upsurge against British imperialism, he responded to an appeal from Indian National Congress to boycott colonial education institutions and left college along with many Hindu and Muslim students. Subsequently, his engagement with AnushilanSamiti deepened. He briefly worked with other young revolutionary activists during the early 1920s to set up a commercial enterprise, âHouse of Labourersâ and saw himself and his friends as âLabourersâ.
Pravat Chakraborty was born in 1901, at Tipperah in colonial Eastern India. Coming from a middle-class Hindu upper-caste family, he was attracted by the Swadeshi Movement-generated anti-colonial political climate in Eastern Bengal. He joined Anushilan Samiti, one of the two principal revolutionary nationalist groups while in school. In 1921, at the peak of Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movements, which turned into a post-First World War upsurge against British imperialism, he responded to an appeal from Indian National Congress to boycott colonial education institutions and left college along with....
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