Jatindranath Mukherjee popularly known as Bagha Jatin was a revolutionary freedom fighter who died for the freedom of his motherland. He was a revolutionary since childhood and when he started going college he came into contact with other revolutionaries. Bagha Jatin was so much impressed by the philosophy of Swami Vivekanand especially for the political freedom of India. Bagha Jatin decided to carry out this philosophy in his freedom struggle.
Jatindranath Mukherjee was such a leader that he formed his own group of like-minded revolutionary people who can carry out the freedom struggle movements.
Ten Lines on Jatindranath Mukherjee
Set 1
1) Jatindranath Mukherjee was a great freedom fighter who died for her motherland.
2) People use to call Jatindranath Mukherjee as ‘Bagha Jatin’ i.e. ‘Jatin, the Tiger’.
3) Mukherjee was born on 8th December 1879 in Nadia district of erstwhile Bengal.
4) Mukherjee joined Krishnanagar Anglo-vernacular (A.V. School) school in 1895.
5) Mukherjee joined Calcutta central college to study fine arts after his schooling.
6) Jatindranath Mukherjee became one of the founders of ‘Anushilan Samiti’ in 1900.
7) In 1905 Mukherjee tried to capture the coach of the prince of wales, the future emperor.
8) In 1908 Mukherjee and other revolutionaries were arrested in Alipore conspiracy.
9) Jatindranath Mukherjee was once again arrested in Howrah-Shibpur conspiracy case.
10) Jatindranath died on 10th September 1915 in Balasore in an encounter with Britishers.
Set 2
1) Jatindranath Mukherjee was an eminent revolutionary freedom fighter who fought against the British rule in India till his last breath.
2) Jatindranath Mukherjee popularly known as ‘Bagha Jatin’ was an aspiration to “Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rahman” for the liberation of Bangladesh.
3) Bagha Jatin was born in ‘Kaya gram’ village in Kushtia division of Nadia district, his father was ‘Umesh Chandra Mukherjee’ and mother was ‘Sharatshashi’.
4) Bagha Jatin was very much influenced by the teachings of Swami Vivekananda especially the concept of politically independent India.
5) Fed up with the British system of education, Jatindranath Mukherjee left for Muzaffarpur in 1899 as a secretary of barrister ‘Pringle Kennedy’.
6) In 1906 Jatindranath Mukherjee fought with a royal Bengal tiger all alone for more than three hours and killed that tiger, then he got the name “Bagha Jatin”.
7) Bagha Jatin proudly took the path of violence and was fully involved in ‘Poorna Swaraj’, he sought Germany’s help with arms and funds for the freedom struggle.
8) When the consignment of arms was reaching to Balasore in Orissa’s coast, its information was somehow leaked and Britishers took action against it.
9) When Bagha Jatin and his colleagues reached the port to receive the consignment, a heavy encounter occurred between Bagha Jatin’s group and Britishers.
10) Both sides involved in the heavy exchange of fire in which heavy casualties happened where Bagha Jatin was killed in that encounter leaving other members injured.
Set 3
1) Jatindranath Mukherjee or Bagha Jatin was a revolutionary against British rule.
2) Due to his bravery, he killed a tiger and became famous as ‘Bagha Jatin’.
3) He was the main leader of the ‘Yugantar Party’.
4) At that time, the Yugantar Party was the main organization of revolutionaries in Bengal.
5) Jatindranath Mukherjee was born on 8th December 1879 in British India in Bengal.
6) In 1910, while working in a revolutionary organization, Jatindranath was arrested in the ‘Howrah Conspiracy Case’ and had to be jailed for a year.
7) On his release from prison, he became an active member of the ‘Anushilan Samiti’ and took up the task of ‘Yugantar’.
8) After the First World War in 1914, Jatin Mukherjee’s Yugantar Party played an important role in the formation of the Berlin Committee and the Indian Independence Party in Germany.
9) Jatin was seriously injured in an encounter between the revolutionaries and the British.
10) Bagha Jatin was taken to Balasore Hospital where he breathed his last on September 10, 1915.
Set 4
1) In the year 1895, Jatindranath Mukherjee joined the Calcutta Central College as a student of fine arts.
2) He learned steno typing, a prestigious course during his time.
3) During his college years, Jatindranath Mukherjee came in contact with Swami Vivekananda.
4) Swami Vivekananda realized his potential as a future revolutionary and sent him to the Gymnasium of Ambuguha to learn wrestling.
5) Jatindranath Mukherjee joined hands with Sri Aurobindo and in 1903 the group formulated a plan to win over the Indian troops in the British Regiment by revolution.
6) He stabbed and killed a leopard that was causing a lot of trouble for the people living in the area around the village of Kayagram.
7) For this act of bravery, Mukherjee was awarded by the Bengal Government and gained fame under the name of ‘Bagha Jatin’.
8) In the Howrah-Sibpur conspiracy case in 1910, Jatin was arrested and released in February 1911.
9) While the revolution plans of Indians against the British had the support of Germany, it was Bagha Jatin who provided coordination and leadership in this entire process.
10) An American preacher famously remarked that ‘if Bagha Jatin had been an Englishman, the people would have built a statue of him next to that of Nelson’s at Trafalgar Square London.
Jatindranath Mukherjee was such a nationalist that he did not hesitate to fight with the Britishers. He started an armed rebellion against British rule and to uproot them he also visited Germany for help and support of the German government in India’s freedom struggle. Although Jatindranath did not become successful in his mission he sacrificed his life and his sacrifice intensified the nature of the freedom struggle of India in the coming days.