Hrishikesh Kanjilal was a part of the revolutionary secret societies that formed the vanguard of India’s independence movement. Guided and aided by intellectuals and spiritual stalwarts like Aurobindo Ghose and Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the nationalist movement sounded the bugle for a colonized independence from oppressive British rule. Hrishikesh Kanjilal passed the entrance examination from the Baranagar Victoria School and F. A. from the General Assembly’s Institution in Calcutta. He went in for B.A. An examination from Duff College and failed. While he was at Duff College he was acquainted with Upendra Nath Banerjee of Chandernagore who became his friend. When he was in the fourth year class he thought of renouncing this world and leading the lives of sanyasis. He left college and went to Mayabatiin Almora, after the examination he went to Benaras and stayed with his brother and studied Hindu Philosophy and Yoga. When Lord Curzon trampled over the prayers and protests of the people and partitioned Bengal he decided to return to Bengal to serve the cause of his country instead of shutting himself up. He went to the Jugantar office at 20 Champa Lane and he was introduced to Barindra by Upendra therefore he became friends with Barindra. He was not a registered member but he was to join them soon. All the above statements of Hrishikesh Kanjilal, made before L. Birley, Magistrate of the 1st class at Alipore, on 11 May 1908, he was only 29 years old at that time. He played an important role in the Alipore Bomb Case.
Source : Indian Culture Portal