Bipin Chandra Pal

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Bipin Chandra Pal
November 7, 1858–May 20 1932

Place of birth:Habiganj District, (now in Bangladesh
Movement:Indian Independence movement
Major organizations:Indian National Congress, Brahmo Samaj


Bipin Chandra Pal (Bangla:বিপিন চন্দ্র পাল) was born on November 7, 1858 in Habiganj, (now in Bangladesh), in a wealthy Hindu Kayastha family. His father was Ramchandra Pal.

A teacher, journalist, orator, writer and librarian, Bipin Chandra was famous as one of the triumvirate of three Extremist patriots of the Congresses - the "Pal" of "Lal Bal Pal". The trio were responsible for initiating the first popular upsurge against British colonial policy in the 1905 partition of Bengal, much before the advent of Gandhi into Indian poltics. Pal was also the founder of the nationalistic journal Bande Mataram.

Even though he understood the positive aspects of Empire as a `great idea', the `Federal-idea is greater'.[1]. In both public and private life he was radical. He married a widow (he had to sever ties to his family for this). At the time of B. G. Tilak's ("Bal") arrest and government repression in 1907, he left for England, where he totally moved away from his 'extremist' phase and even nationalism, as he contemplated an association of free nations as the great federal-idea. His plea for a transcendence to a broader entity than nation derived from the notion of the sociability of human beings, which he thought would create a common bond between nations.[2][3][4] He was among the first to criticize Gandhi or the 'Gandhi cult' since it `sought to replace the present government by no government or by the priestly autocracy of the Mahatma.'[5] His criticism of Gandhi was persistent beginning with Gandhi's arrival in India and open in 1921 session of the Indian National Congress he delivered in his presidential speech a severe criticism of Gandhi's ideas as based on magic rather than logic, addressing Gandhi: 'You wanted magic. I tried to give you logic. But logic is in bad odour when the popular mind is excited. You wanted mantaram, I am not a Rishi and cannot give Mantaram...I have never spoken a half-truth when I know the truth...I have never tried to lead people in faith blind-folded'[6], for his 'priestly, potifical tendencies', his allience with pan-Islamism during the Khilafat movement, which led to Pal's eclipse from political life from 1922 till his death in 1932 under conditions of abject poverty. Comparing Gandhi with Tolstoy during the year he died, Pal noted that Tolstoy 'was an honest philosophical anarchist' while Gandhi remained in his eyes as 'a papal autocrat'[7][8][9] Firm and ethically grounded, not only did he perceive the 'Congress Babel' in terms of its shortsightedness in late 1920s or, Congress as an instance of repudiating debt's folly, composed of a generation 'that knows no Joseph', Pal's critical comments should be located in context, since nobody can jump out of his skin of time. An estimation of Bipin Chandra Pal's entire corpus and the depth of his published writing cannot produce a fair idea or provide due justice if that is produced with the benefit of post-independence hindsight. Though there are many articles and books written about him from India and Europe, most of which is not hagiographical, his 'pen played not an inconsiderable part in the political and social ferments that have stirred the aters of Indian life', as the Earl of Ronaldshay wrote in 1925, what Nehru said in a speech during Pal's birth centenary in 1958 surmises 'a great man who functioned on a high level on both religious and political planes'[10] opens a gate for enquiring this high-minded yet anomalous persona.

The trio had advocated extremist means to get their message across to the British, like boycotting British manufactured goods, burning Western clothes made in the mills of Manchester and strikes and lockouts of British owned businesses and industrial concerns.

He came under the influence of eminent Bengali leaders,not as a hero-worshipper or somebody looking for a guru for guidance, of his time such as Keshab Chandra Sen and Sibnath Sastri, as his family were in Brahmo Samaj. He was imprisoned for six months on the grounds of his refusal to give evidence against Sri Aurobindo in the Bande Mataram sedition case.

Pal died in 1932.

References

1. ^ B C Pal, Nationality and empire, Swaraj, April, 1909
2. ^ Territorial vs extra-territorial patriotism', The Bengali, Feb. 3, 1925
3. ^ Union of East and West, The Bengalee, October 22
4. ^ Suffergate Revolution, Hindu, April-May 1913
5. ^ The Hindu, English suppliment, March 5, 1932
6. ^ Magic preferred to Logic, The Statesman, March 29,1921
7. ^ Hindu, vol46, March 12, 1932, p.12
8. ^ Mr Gandhi : Politician or Prophet?, The Bengalee, September 17, Editorial, 1924
9. ^ Open letter to Gandhiji, The Englishman, May 7, 1924
10. ^ Hindustan Standard, November 8, 1958

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