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A Social Club for Fitness, operated as Underground Society for Revolutionaries

Kolkata, West Bengal

February 22, 2022

Pramathanath Mitra, the barrister was instrumental in setting up the Anushilan Samiti in 1902 in Calcutta. He was a proponent of Indian nationalism. While on the surface, the Anushilan Samiti functioned as a social club for fitness, it operated as an underground society for anti-British revolutionaries. Along with Mitra, Aurobindo Ghosh and his brother Barindra Kumar Ghosh were instrumental in helping the Anushilan Samiti to grow and spread throughout Bengal.

Source: IGNCA, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India

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