The East India Company (EIC) not only drained India’s wealth but also destroyed our rich culture and knowledge. Every section of Indian society revolted in its own way. One of the consistent movements was going in the Bengal province. Under these circumstances whence everyone was ready to sacrifice his/her life, a young boy - Suresh Chandra Sengupta – was born in the year 1916 at Barisal, a very remote village of Bengal (Undivided India).
As a student in Rangamati Madhyamik Vidyalaya Jhalkaathi in Barisal, Suresh Chandra Sengupta was a brilliant one and was known as Bidrohi among his mates because he always talked about the torture inflicted by the Britishers on Indians. He was a good communicator and believed that to make our Motherland free from the bondage of the British Raj, everyone must contribute his/her best. During this time, Sengupta got associated with the Anushilan Samiti, an Indian fitness club, which was actually used as an underground society for anti-British revolutionaries.
For more on Anushilan Samiti, read: https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/district-reopsitory-detail.htm?1860
Suresh Chandra Sengupta, at the young age of around 14 or 15 years, got involved as a messenger in the Samiti and supplied money along with arms and weapons from Calcutta to Barisal, Chittagong, and vice versa, uninterruptedly for many years. Surya Sen along with Sri Sengupta and others led a group of revolutionaries on 18 April 1930 to raid the armory of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armory. The plan was elaborate and included seizing of arms from the armory as well as the destruction of a communication system of the city (including telephone, telegraph, and railway), thereby isolating Chittagong from the rest of British Raj. However, although the group gained the arms, they failed to capture the ammunition. They hoisted the Indian National Flag on the premises of the armoury and therefore escaped.
A few days later, a large fraction of the revolutionary group was cornered in the nearby Jalalabad Hills by a British Indian Army detachment. In the ensuing fight, twelve revolutionaries died, while some managed to flee like Master Da. Many were arrested including Suresh Chandra Sengupta. Sri Sengupta was arrested and was kept in Berampore Jail for around eight years. Later on, Sri Sengupta was released.
Before independence, i.e. in the year 1947, Sri Sengupta came to Belgharia, Kolkata (North 24 Parganas), and settled over there with his three sons and a daughter. Even after Independence, Sengupta developed himself in a famous persona in the locality. For his revolutionary work against the British Raj, the Government of India in the year 1972 (when India was celebrating 25 years of Independence), the then Prime Minister of India Smt. Indira Gandhi awarded him with a TamraPatra to celebrate his work.