Syed Badrul Ahsan, Esteemed Journalist and Author, served as Minister (Press) at the Bangladesh High Commission, London, and senior member of the editorial board, Bangla Worldwide
A hundred years ago today, on 16 June 1925, the life of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das came to an end in Darjeeling. It was the passing of a political leader in whom burned the promise of an India that would, through achieving freedom from British colonial rule, take its place among sovereign nations. He was young, a mere fifty-five, when the end came.
Much has transpired in our part of the world since Deshbandhu’s death. Indeed, a hundred years after June 1925, we inhabit a world that might well have been different had he lived longer. As a politician whose integrity rested on his belief in an India being a large, wide tent for all its inhabitants, all its religions, Deshbandhu offered hope to a country which underpinned a diversity of cultures and faiths but which was home to unflinching patriotism across its expansive and varied geographical dimensions.
History, of course, is never a matter of what might have been. And yet there is the temptation in all of us to imagine, once a great man suddenly passes from the scene, the brave new world he might have given shape to had destiny been a little kinder to him and to his people. Would Deshbandhu have succeeded in keeping the communalism which rent India asunder in 1947 at bay? On his watch, would Bengal and Punjab bear the calamity of partition? Indeed, would a seventy-seven year-old Deshbandhu, the age he would have reached in 1947, be assertive enough to prevent the anarchy which was to push India into a bloody process of division?
These are the questions which assail us today. Or put it another way: it soothes the mind and soul, all these decades after partition, to imagine the world, our world, with Chittaranjan Das around in 1947. These questions and that imagination are a comfort for us, despite our knowing that Deshbandhu has been gone from our lives for a century. He nevertheless remains a significant point of reference in South Asian history. There are all the questions which arise with every remembrance of the man known as Deshbandhu to people across what are today the independent republics of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh but which once were a wholesome, united India. Would the hate and mistrust governing our lives since the subcontinent was fractured be there had illness not got the better of Chittaranjan Das? We will never know.
In these rather banal times when political tribalism, figuratively as well as literally, assails us every day, it is the electrifying, idealistic nature of Das' beliefs that is recalled, to jolt us into an awareness of the transcendental calling of politics as it used to be. Deshbandhu belonged to a generation of political figures that produced the likes of Surendranath Banerjea, Bepin Chandra Pal, Motilal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Aurobindo Ghosh.
In Das came together the best that education under British colonialism could offer, which was fundamentally an acknowledgement that India would need to catch up with the rest of world, that such a catching up entailed a calling forth of nationalism based on monumental patriotism among its leadership and its citizens across the varied parameters of thought.
The national cause mattered to Deshbandhu. He abandoned a lucrative legal practice to place his politics at the service of his people. That was how he scaled the heights of grandeur, through being honoured as the friend of the country by a grateful people. In Das, the urge for national freedom came not through a demonstration of bitterness towards the colonial administration but through the belief that constructive engagement with the British in the administration of India would lead to self-rule, to be followed in due course by full independence. That was his reasoning behind the formation of the Swarajya Party, despite his continuing association with the Indian National Congress, in 1923.
He spelt out his dreams at the conference of the All-India Swarajya Party in Calcutta in 1924: 'I have said elsewhere and repeat it today that Swaraj --- the right Swaraj ---is not to be confused with any particular system of government. . . What I want today is a clear declaration by the people of this country that we have got the right to establish our own system of government according to the temper and genius of our people . . . We must be true judges of what system of government is good for us and what system of government will not suit us. It is not for other people to constitute themselves as our judges.'
The renaissance spirit defined Deshbandhu. It was a reputation which came to him as a result of his wide experience of life’s different aspects. He appeared at the examinations of the Indian Civil Service, before veering off into law. He read profusely, was an enthusiast for poetry and indeed composed verses of his own.
Literature was his passion. Beyond and above all that, he was a man steeped in constitutional politics, conscious of the political realities, often coated in complexities, that underlined India. That Hindus and Muslims needed to find common ground was a thought he put into clear outline through the Lucknow Pact of 1916. And then came the Bengal Pact of 1923. He was one of the earliest of Indian politicians to realise that if Indians meant to have absolute liberty for themselves, they would first need to come together as a nation that defied communal differences, that considered India as a homeland for all. It was Gandhi who spoke for all after Deshbandhu's death:
'Deshbandhu was one of the greatest of men…He dreamed…His heart knew no difference between Hindus and Mussulmans'. And earlier, nearly two years before Deshbandhu’s death, Evelyn Thomas, writing in Britain's left-wing Labour Monthly in September 1923, eulogised C.R. Das thus: 'Mr. C.R. Das, late President of the All-Indian National Congress and founder of the Swaraj Party, is the acknowledged successor of Mr. Gandhi as an all-India leader. He has snatched the falling standard and is carrying it forward in the struggle between Indian bourgeois nationalism and British imperialism --- a struggle which is destined to be a long one.'
In Deshbandhu, passion underscored the practice of politics. And passion too was what defined his legal career, as his defence of Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore bomb case in 1908 was to demonstrate so well. In a trial that was to last 126 days with over two hundred witnesses examined, Deshbandhu's eloquence came alive in his closing arguments in court:
'My appeal to you, therefore, is that a man like this, who is being charged with the offence with which he has been charged, stands not only before the Bar of this court, but before the Bar of the High Court of history. My appeal to you is this: that long after this controversy will be hushed in silence, long after this turmoil, this agitation, will have ceased, long after he is dead and gone, he will be looked upon as the poet of patriotism, as the prophet of nationalism and a lover of humanity. Long after he is dead and gone, his words will be echoed and re-echoed not only in India but across distant seas and lands.'
A hundred years after Chittaranjan Das' life came to an unexpected end, his words are recalled, his patriotism remains the mast we nail our principles to. In his eulogy on Deshbandhu, Rabindranath Tagore spoke for all of India: ‘The best gift that Chittaranjan has left for his countrymen is not any particular political or social programme, but the creative force of a great aspiration that has taken a deathless form in the sacrifice which his life represented.’
Acknowledgement:
This article was originally published on Daily Sun and is republished here with the explicit permission of the author. All accompanying images have been sourced from publicly availabe content on the internet.
01:30:00 PM {"id":1864,"user_id":3,"title":"Deshbandhu: A Hundred Years after His Passing","slug":"deshbandhu-hundred-years-after-his-passing","excerpt":"A hundred years ago today, on 16 June 1925, the life of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das came to an end in Darjeeling. It was the passing of a political leader in whom burned the promise of an India that would, through achieving freedom from British colonial rule, take its place among sovereign nations. He was young, a mere fifty-five, when the end came.","content":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/commonwealth.sas.ac.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1_1_media_medium\/public\/2022-08\/SBA.jpeg?h=38acc2ef&itok=iIY-Nthi\" alt=\"Syed Badrul Ahsan | Institute of Commonwealth Studies\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Syed Badrul Ahsan, Esteemed Journalist and Author, served as Minister (Press) at the Bangladesh High Commission, London, and senior member of the editorial board, Bangla Worldwide<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<article>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A hundred years ago today, on 16 June 1925, the life of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das came to an end in Darjeeling. It was the passing of a political leader in whom burned the promise of an India that would, through achieving freedom from British colonial rule, take its place among sovereign nations. He was young, a mere fifty-five, when the end came.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Much has transpired in our part of the world since Deshbandhu’s death. Indeed, a hundred years after June 1925, we inhabit a world that might well have been different had he lived longer. As a politician whose integrity rested on his belief in an India being a large, wide tent for all its inhabitants, all its religions, Deshbandhu offered hope to a country which underpinned a diversity of cultures and faiths but which was home to unflinching patriotism across its expansive and varied geographical dimensions.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"\/storage\/app\/media\/aro%2020\/cropped-images\/WhatsApp%20Image%202025-06-16%20at%2012.42.10%20PM-0-0-0-0-1750149457.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">History, of course, is never a matter of what might have been. And yet there is the temptation in all of us to imagine, once a great man suddenly passes from the scene, the brave new world he might have given shape to had destiny been a little kinder to him and to his people. Would Deshbandhu have succeeded in keeping the communalism which rent India asunder in 1947 at bay? On his watch, would Bengal and Punjab bear the calamity of partition? Indeed, would a seventy-seven year-old Deshbandhu, the age he would have reached in 1947, be assertive enough to prevent the anarchy which was to push India into a bloody process of division?<\/p>\r\n<\/article>\r\n<article>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are the questions which assail us today. Or put it another way: it soothes the mind and soul, all these decades after partition, to imagine the world, our world, with Chittaranjan Das around in 1947. These questions and that imagination are a comfort for us, despite our knowing that Deshbandhu has been gone from our lives for a century. He nevertheless remains a significant point of reference in South Asian history. There are all the questions which arise with every remembrance of the man known as Deshbandhu to people across what are today the independent republics of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh but which once were a wholesome, united India. Would the hate and mistrust governing our lives since the subcontinent was fractured be there had illness not got the better of Chittaranjan Das? We will never know.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In these rather banal times when political tribalism, figuratively as well as literally, assails us every day, it is the electrifying, idealistic nature of Das' beliefs that is recalled, to jolt us into an awareness of the transcendental calling of politics as it used to be. Deshbandhu belonged to a generation of political figures that produced the likes of Surendranath Banerjea, Bepin Chandra Pal, Motilal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Aurobindo Ghosh.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Das came together the best that education under British colonialism could offer, which was fundamentally an acknowledgement that India would need to catch up with the rest of world, that such a catching up entailed a calling forth of nationalism based on monumental patriotism among its leadership and its citizens across the varied parameters of thought.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The national cause mattered to Deshbandhu. He abandoned a lucrative legal practice to place his politics at the service of his people. That was how he scaled the heights of grandeur, through being honoured as the friend of the country by a grateful people. In Das, the urge for national freedom came not through a demonstration of bitterness towards the colonial administration but through the belief that constructive engagement with the British in the administration of India would lead to self-rule, to be followed in due course by full independence. That was his reasoning behind the formation of the Swarajya Party, despite his continuing association with the Indian National Congress, in 1923. <\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"\/storage\/app\/media\/aro%2020\/cropped-images\/WhatsApp%20Image%202025-06-16%20at%2012.41.42%20PM-0-21-300-285-1750149499.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\r\n<\/article>\r\n<article>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He spelt out his dreams at the conference of the All-India Swarajya Party in Calcutta in 1924: 'I have said elsewhere and repeat it today that Swaraj --- the right Swaraj ---is not to be confused with any particular system of government. . . What I want today is a clear declaration by the people of this country that we have got the right to establish our own system of government according to the temper and genius of our people . . . We must be true judges of what system of government is good for us and what system of government will not suit us. It is not for other people to constitute themselves as our judges.'<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The renaissance spirit defined Deshbandhu. It was a reputation which came to him as a result of his wide experience of life’s different aspects. He appeared at the examinations of the Indian Civil Service, before veering off into law. He read profusely, was an enthusiast for poetry and indeed composed verses of his own.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Literature was his passion. Beyond and above all that, he was a man steeped in constitutional politics, conscious of the political realities, often coated in complexities, that underlined India. That Hindus and Muslims needed to find common ground was a thought he put into clear outline through the Lucknow Pact of 1916. And then came the Bengal Pact of 1923. He was one of the earliest of Indian politicians to realise that if Indians meant to have absolute liberty for themselves, they would first need to come together as a nation that defied communal differences, that considered India as a homeland for all. <br \/>It was Gandhi who spoke for all after Deshbandhu's death:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">'Deshbandhu was one of the greatest of men…He dreamed…His heart knew no difference between Hindus and Mussulmans'.<br \/>And earlier, nearly two years before Deshbandhu’s death, Evelyn Thomas, writing in Britain's left-wing Labour Monthly in September 1923, eulogised C.R. Das thus:<br \/>'Mr. C.R. Das, late President of the All-Indian National Congress and founder of the Swaraj Party, is the acknowledged successor of Mr. Gandhi as an all-India leader. He has snatched the falling standard and is carrying it forward in the struggle between Indian bourgeois nationalism and British imperialism --- a struggle which is destined to be a long one.' <\/p>\r\n<\/article>\r\n<article>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Deshbandhu, passion underscored the practice of politics. And passion too was what defined his legal career, as his defence of Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore bomb case in 1908 was to demonstrate so well. In a trial that was to last 126 days with over two hundred witnesses examined, Deshbandhu's eloquence came alive in his closing arguments in court:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">'My appeal to you, therefore, is that a man like this, who is being charged with the offence with which he has been charged, stands not only before the Bar of this court, but before the Bar of the High Court of history. My appeal to you is this: that long after this controversy will be hushed in silence, long after this turmoil, this agitation, will have ceased, long after he is dead and gone, he will be looked upon as the poet of patriotism, as the prophet of nationalism and a lover of humanity. Long after he is dead and gone, his words will be echoed and re-echoed not only in India but across distant seas and lands.'<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A hundred years after Chittaranjan Das' life came to an unexpected end, his words are recalled, his patriotism remains the mast we nail our principles to. In his eulogy on Deshbandhu, Rabindranath Tagore spoke for all of India: ‘The best gift that Chittaranjan has left for his countrymen is not any particular political or social programme, but the creative force of a great aspiration that has taken a deathless form in the sacrifice which his life represented.’ <\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Acknowledgement: <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\">This article was originally published on <em><strong>Daily Sun<\/strong><\/em> and is republished here with the explicit permission of the author. All accompanying images have been sourced from publicly availabe content on the internet.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/article>","content_html":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/commonwealth.sas.ac.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1_1_media_medium\/public\/2022-08\/SBA.jpeg?h=38acc2ef&itok=iIY-Nthi\" alt=\"Syed Badrul Ahsan | Institute of Commonwealth Studies\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Syed Badrul Ahsan, Esteemed Journalist and Author,\u00a0served as Minister (Press) at the Bangladesh High Commission, London, and senior member of the editorial board, Bangla Worldwide<\/strong><\/h4>\n<article><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A hundred years ago today, on 16 June 1925, the life of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das came to an end in Darjeeling. It was the passing of a political leader in whom burned the promise of an India that would, through achieving freedom from British colonial rule, take its place among sovereign nations. He was young, a mere fifty-five, when the end came.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Much has transpired in our part of the world since Deshbandhu\u2019s death. Indeed, a hundred years after June 1925, we inhabit a world that might well have been different had he lived longer.\u00a0 As a politician whose integrity rested on his belief in an India being a large, wide tent for all its inhabitants, all its religions, Deshbandhu offered hope to a country which underpinned a diversity of cultures and faiths but which was home to unflinching patriotism across its expansive and varied geographical dimensions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"\/storage\/app\/media\/aro%2020\/cropped-images\/WhatsApp%20Image%202025-06-16%20at%2012.42.10%20PM-0-0-0-0-1750149457.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">History, of course, is never a matter of what might have been. And yet there is the temptation in all of us to imagine, once a great man suddenly passes from the scene, the brave new world he might have given shape to had destiny been a little kinder to him and to his people. Would Deshbandhu have succeeded in keeping\u00a0the communalism which rent India asunder in 1947 at bay? On his watch, would Bengal and Punjab bear the calamity of partition? Indeed, would a seventy-seven year-old Deshbandhu, the age he would have reached in 1947, be assertive enough to prevent the anarchy which was to push India into a bloody process of division?<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are the questions which assail us today. Or put it another way: it soothes the mind and soul, all these decades after partition, to imagine the world, our world, with Chittaranjan Das around in 1947. These questions and that imagination are a comfort for us, despite our knowing that Deshbandhu has been gone from our lives for a century. He nevertheless remains a significant point of reference in South Asian history. There are all the questions which arise with every remembrance of the man known as Deshbandhu to people across what are today the independent republics of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh but which once were a wholesome, united India. Would the hate and mistrust governing our lives since the subcontinent was fractured be there had illness not got the better of Chittaranjan Das? We will never know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In these rather banal times when political tribalism, figuratively as well as literally, assails us every day, it is the electrifying, idealistic nature of Das' beliefs that is recalled, to jolt us into an awareness of the transcendental calling of politics as it used to be. Deshbandhu belonged to a generation of political figures that produced the likes of Surendranath Banerjea, Bepin Chandra Pal, Motilal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Aurobindo Ghosh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Das came together the best that education under British colonialism could offer, which was fundamentally an acknowledgement that India would need to catch up with the rest of world, that such a catching up entailed a calling forth of nationalism based on monumental patriotism among its leadership and its citizens across the varied parameters of thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The national cause mattered to Deshbandhu. He abandoned a lucrative legal practice to place his politics at the service of his people. That was how he scaled the heights of grandeur, through being honoured as the friend of the country by a grateful people. In Das, the urge for national freedom came not through a demonstration of bitterness towards the colonial administration but through the belief that constructive engagement with the British in the administration of India would lead to self-rule, to be followed in due course by full independence. That was his reasoning behind the formation of the Swarajya Party, despite his continuing association with the Indian National Congress, in 1923.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"\/storage\/app\/media\/aro%2020\/cropped-images\/WhatsApp%20Image%202025-06-16%20at%2012.41.42%20PM-0-21-300-285-1750149499.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He spelt out his dreams at the conference of the All-India Swarajya Party in Calcutta in 1924: 'I have said elsewhere and repeat it today that Swaraj --- the right Swaraj ---is not to be confused with any particular system of government. . . What I want today is a clear declaration by the people of this country that we have got the right to establish our own system of government according to the temper and genius of our people . . .\u00a0 We must be true judges of what system of government is good for us and what system of government will not suit us. It is not for other people to constitute themselves as our judges.'<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The renaissance spirit defined Deshbandhu. It was a reputation which came to him as a result of his wide experience of life\u2019s different aspects. He appeared at the examinations of the Indian Civil Service, before veering off into law. He read profusely, was an enthusiast for poetry and indeed composed verses of his own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Literature was his passion. Beyond and above all that, he was a man steeped in constitutional politics, conscious of the political realities, often coated in complexities, that underlined India. That Hindus and Muslims needed to find common ground was a thought he put into clear outline through the Lucknow Pact of 1916. And then came the Bengal Pact of 1923. He was one of the earliest of Indian politicians to realise that if Indians meant to have absolute liberty for themselves, they would first need to come together as a nation that defied communal differences, that considered India as a homeland for all.\u00a0<br>It was Gandhi who spoke for all after Deshbandhu's death:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">'Deshbandhu was one of the greatest of men\u2026He dreamed\u2026His heart knew no difference between Hindus and Mussulmans'.<br>And earlier, nearly two years before Deshbandhu\u2019s death, Evelyn Thomas, writing in Britain's left-wing Labour Monthly in September 1923, eulogised C.R. Das thus:<br>'Mr. C.R. Das, late President of the All-Indian National Congress and founder of the Swaraj Party, is the acknowledged successor of Mr. Gandhi as an all-India leader. He has snatched the falling standard and is carrying it forward in the struggle between Indian bourgeois nationalism and British imperialism --- a struggle which is destined to be a long one.'\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Deshbandhu, passion underscored the practice of politics. And passion too was what defined his legal career, as his defence of Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore bomb case in 1908 was to demonstrate so well. In a trial that was to last 126 days with over two hundred witnesses examined, Deshbandhu's eloquence came alive in his closing arguments in court:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">'My appeal to you, therefore, is that a man like this, who is being charged with the offence with which he has been charged, stands not only before the Bar of this court, but before the Bar of the High Court of history. My appeal to you is this: that long after this controversy will be hushed in silence, long after this turmoil, this agitation, will have ceased, long after he is dead and gone, he will be looked upon as the poet of patriotism, as the prophet of nationalism and a lover of humanity. Long after he is dead and gone, his words will be echoed and re-echoed not only in India but across distant seas and lands.'<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A hundred years after Chittaranjan Das' life came to an unexpected end, his words are recalled, his patriotism remains the mast we nail our principles to.\u00a0 In his eulogy on Deshbandhu, Rabindranath Tagore spoke for all of India: \u2018The best gift that Chittaranjan has left for his countrymen is not any particular political or social programme, but the creative force of a great aspiration that has taken a deathless form in the sacrifice which his life represented.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Acknowledgement:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\">This article was originally published on <em><strong>Daily Sun<\/strong><\/em> and is republished here with the explicit permission of the author. All accompanying images have been sourced from publicly availabe content on the internet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/article>","published_at":"2025-06-17 13:30:00","published":1,"created_at":"2025-06-17 14:04:34","updated_at":"2025-06-17 15:26:17","metadata":null,"ginopane_blogtaxonomy_series_id":null,"seo_title":null,"seo_description":null,"seo_keywords":null,"canonical_url":null,"redirect_url":null,"robot_index":null,"robot_follow":null,"summary":"A hundred years ago today, on 16 June 1925, the life of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das came to an end in Darjeeling. It was the passing of a political leader in whom burned the promise of an India that would, through achieving freedom from British colonial rule, take its place among sovereign nations. 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