Son of Jadavchandra Maulik, Pareshchandra Maulik(1888-?) was born in the Magura village of Jessore in undivided Bengal. In the school, he was punished with a pecuniary penalty for shouting Vande Mataram inside the classroom. He refused to pay the fine and as such he was expelled from the school. He then shifted to Calcutta and took admission in the National School.
The national school environment further encouraged his nationalist zeal; and he started visiting Manicktala garden house, the hub of Yugantar boys at the time. Barindrakumar Ghosh, Ullaskar Datta, Upendranath Bandyopadhyay and a host others were then busy making preparations for the ensuing revolution with bombs, arms and ammunitions. Pareshchandra’s innocent look and receptive mind made him readily acceptable to the group.
Revolutionaries were then looking for an opportunity to target Mr. Kingsford, the dreaded judge; but were not getting an opportunity to pin him. Hence, they decided to send him a book bomb to his residence. Pareshchandra was selected for the job. Dressed as an orderly, he delivered the book to his bearer. Mr. Kingsford was not at home at the time; so the orderly put it on his reading table. With the bomb embedded, the book was looking unusually fat. The next morning, when Kingsford saw the book he did not open it but placed it on the bookshelf. Hence, the bomb inside did not work.
In course of the proceedings of the Alipore Bomb case, Pareshchandra was arrested along with thirty-five others; the special tribunal sentenced him to transportation with seven years imprisonment.
Source: Nihar Roy, Biplabi: Jader Mane Rakhini, 2021, in Bengali; Tarinishankar Chakraborty, Biplabi Bangla 1757-1912, not dated, in Bengali; Matilal Roy, Amar Dekha Biplab O Biplabi, 1957, in Bengali; Shubhendu Majumdar, Agniyuger Abhidhan, 2022, in Bengali.