An Indian Revolutionary and founder-president of the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti, Pulin Behari Das was born on January 24, 1877 in Faridpur in Bengal, former British India. He was born to Naba Kumar Das who belonged to a middle class Bengali Hindu family. He completed his education from Faridpur Zilla School in 1894. Later he got admitted to the Dhaka College. While he was still a student, Das worked as the laboratory assistant and demonstrator. In the year 1903, he opened an akhara at Tikatuli.
Pulin Behari Das was nominated to organize and administer the Dhaka division of the Anushilan Samiti and established the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti with 80 young participants. He appropriately organized the Samiti and formed around 500 branches in the province. He had also built the National School in Dhaka with the purpose of using the premise as a training ground for developing a revolutionary army. The students were trained with various weapons such as wooden swords, daggers, revolvers and pistols.
Pulin Behari worked out the plan to assassinate the former District Magistrate of Dhaka, Basil Copleston Allen. In the year 1908, he planned and carried out the Barrah Dacoity, which was organized in broad daylight by a group of revolutionaries at the Barrah zamindar`s residence in the district of Dhaka. Later in the same year, he was jailed by the British Indian Police, along with other revolutionaries namely Ashwini Dutta, Shyam Sundar Chakravarti, Subodh Mallick, Krishna Kumar Mitra and Bhupesh Chandra Nag. Pulin Behari Das was imprisoned in the Montgomery jail. He was released in the year 1910 and again started to renew the revolutionary activities to attain independence from the rule of the British Empire in India. He was again arrested in the same year along with 46 other Indian revolutionaries on charges of treason and agitation. In due course of time, another 44 revolutionaries were arrested by the British Indian Police and this event was known as the Dhaka Conspiracy Case.
Pulin Behari Das was transferred to the Cellular Jail where he met some of the eminent revolutionaries including Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Hem Chandra Das. Later in the year 1918, he was released but was kept under house arrest and in the year 1919, he was completely released. He again attempted to revive his revolutionary activities with support from the Samiti. But the association was banned and the members were scattered in different regions. He refused to accept the ideologies and leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and remained determined to continue the revolutionary activities. He then established the Bharat Sevak Sangh in the year 1920. Pulin Behari Das eventually published 2 periodicals titled Swaraj and Hak Katha under the patronage of S.R. Das, in order to propagate revolutionary ideas. Later in the year 1928, Das formed the Bangiya Byayam Samiti at Mechhuabazar in Calcutta. Pulin Behari Das died on 17 August 1949 at the age of 72 in Calcutta in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Pulin Behari Das was nominated to organize and administer the Dhaka division of the Anushilan Samiti and established the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti with 80 young participants. He appropriately organized the Samiti and formed around 500 branches in the province. He had also built the National School in Dhaka with the purpose of using the premise as a training ground for developing a revolutionary army. The students were trained with various weapons such as wooden swords, daggers, revolvers and pistols.
Pulin Behari worked out the plan to assassinate the former District Magistrate of Dhaka, Basil Copleston Allen. In the year 1908, he planned and carried out the Barrah Dacoity, which was organized in broad daylight by a group of revolutionaries at the Barrah zamindar`s residence in the district of Dhaka. Later in the same year, he was jailed by the British Indian Police, along with other revolutionaries namely Ashwini Dutta, Shyam Sundar Chakravarti, Subodh Mallick, Krishna Kumar Mitra and Bhupesh Chandra Nag. Pulin Behari Das was imprisoned in the Montgomery jail. He was released in the year 1910 and again started to renew the revolutionary activities to attain independence from the rule of the British Empire in India. He was again arrested in the same year along with 46 other Indian revolutionaries on charges of treason and agitation. In due course of time, another 44 revolutionaries were arrested by the British Indian Police and this event was known as the Dhaka Conspiracy Case.
Pulin Behari Das was transferred to the Cellular Jail where he met some of the eminent revolutionaries including Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Hem Chandra Das. Later in the year 1918, he was released but was kept under house arrest and in the year 1919, he was completely released. He again attempted to revive his revolutionary activities with support from the Samiti. But the association was banned and the members were scattered in different regions. He refused to accept the ideologies and leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and remained determined to continue the revolutionary activities. He then established the Bharat Sevak Sangh in the year 1920. Pulin Behari Das eventually published 2 periodicals titled Swaraj and Hak Katha under the patronage of S.R. Das, in order to propagate revolutionary ideas. Later in the year 1928, Das formed the Bangiya Byayam Samiti at Mechhuabazar in Calcutta. Pulin Behari Das died on 17 August 1949 at the age of 72 in Calcutta in the Indian state of West Bengal.