| Name(s) |
MANMATH NATH GUPTA |
| Date of
Birth |
February 07, 1908 |
| Date of
Death |
October 26, 2000 |
|
Identity |
Indian
revolutionary writer and author of autobiographical, historical
and fictional books in Hindi, English and Bengali. |
|
Other Events &
Developments |
- He joined the Indian independence movement at the age of
13, and was an active member of the Hindustan Republican
Association.
- He participated in the famous Kakori train robbery in
1925 and was imprisoned for 14 years.
- On release from jail in 1937, he started writing against
the British government.
- He was sentenced again in 1939 and was released in 1946
just a year before the India's independence in 1947.
- He has written several books on the history of the
Indian struggle for independence from a revolutionary's
point of view, including They Lived Dangerously –
Reminiscences of a Revolutionary.
- He was also the editor of the Hindi literary magazine
Aajkal.
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