Ullaskar : Ullāskar Datta (1885-I965), a member of the Yugantar group; in the Alipore Bomb Case he was sentenced to death, but on appeal the sentence was reduced to transportation for life in the Andamans. He was, however, granted amnesty after serving ten years. After his release he never actively participated in any kind of political work. Ullāskar was normally fun-loving & light-hearted. Ullas had a sweet singing voice & was a good ventriloquist & a caricaturist.
... Barindra and Ullaskar received death sentences; some were exiled to the Andamans for life, some were sentenced to transportation or rigorous imprisonment for several years; and some fifteen, including Nolini Kanta Gupta, were acquitted along with Sri Aurobindo. Presently, C.R. Das appealed to the High Court on behalf of those who had been convicted, and as a result Barindra and Ullaskar had their... sincere, and in a great measure chivalrous. Ullaskar, as a college student, had thrashed his professor, one Mr. Russell, for having spoken deprecatingly of the Bengalis. He had then joined the Manicktolla group and started making bombs. Love of the Motherland was a consuming passion with him, and nothing else mattered. Like Barin, Ullaskar too spent ten or more years in the Andamans, and ... He would have liked to get Sri Aurobindo at least out of the cage, but didn't know how. Everyday as the prison authorities escorted the accused in the prison van from the jail to the Court Room, Ullaskar Datta used to give a lead to the singing and shouting all along the Page 325 way. 43 Indifferent to the proceedings in the Court where legal wranglings and examination and c ...
... of innocent lambs! Page 3 But who was the culprit? It was Ullaskar Datta, one of our class-fellows. He was a boarder at the Eden Hindu Hostel. He had come to college with a slipper wrapped up in a newspaper sheet and had made good use of it as goon as he got a chance.... The life-story of this Ullaskar is a real drama, although its last stage is rather tragic. Soon after this... like a small laboratory at his residence. It was here that Ullaskar took his training in secret. To what extent he had finally succeeded in his efforts was proved one day when to the first of his bombs one of our own men had to fall a martyr— Prafulla Chakravarti. I too had been an associate of his in this enterprise. Ullaskar—"one who abounds in energy"—fully lived up to his name: he was ...
... bore fruit as subsequent events were to prove. The young boys faced the gallows calm and smiling. In 1909, Barin and Ullaskar were sentenced to death by hanging in the Alipore Bomb Case. 1 After the verdict, when they returned to the prison from the court, a European warder seeing Ullaskar laughing called an Irish friend and pointing to him said, "Look, look, the man is going to be hanged and he laughs... 29 "They Laugh at Death" "Barin was preparing bombs at my place at Baroda," Sri Aurobindo said with a reminiscent smile, "but I didn't know it. He got the formula from Ullaskar Dutt who was a very good chemist. He, Upen and Debabrata were very good writers too. They wrote in the Yugantar." Upen, or Upendranath Banerji (1879-1950), came from Chandernagore, then in... Rohini, and some eight kilometres from Deoghar. A desolate place. The house was set in open fields —amid the red and barren moorlands of Bihar. There they set up their laboratory, under the tutelage of Ullaskar Dutt. He had four assistants: Barin, Prafulla Chakravarti, 1 Bibhuti Bhusan Sarkar 2 and Nolini Kanto Gupta. So when a real live bomb was ready, they went to the top of the Dighariya hill for testing ...
... We were all a bunch of innocent lambs! But who was the culprit? It was Ullaskar Datta, one of our class-fellows. He was a boarder at the Eden Hindu Hostel. He had come to college with a slipper wrapped up in a newspaper sheet and had made good use of it as soon as he got a chance. The life-story of this Ullaskar is a real drama, although its last stage is rather tragic. Soon after this incident... like a small iaboratory at his residence. It was here that Ullaskar took his training in secret. To what extent he had finally succeeded in his efforts was proved one day when to the first of his bombs one of our own men had to fall a martyr – Prafulla Chakravarti. I too had been an associate of his in this enterprise. Ullaskar – "one who abounds in energy" – fully lived up to his name: he ...
... accused were charged with 'organising a gang for the purpose of waging war against the Government by criminal force', a grave offence under the Indian Penal Code. In the case of Barin, Hemchandra Das, Ullaskar Dutt and others, additional charges were framed, those of conspiracy, complicity in plots for assassination and other murderous acts, illegal manufacture of explosives, etc. etc., charges which if... on the day of the verdict. The prisoners were led into the courtroom, as usual, and at ten minutes to eleven, the Judge mounted the bench. Ten minutes later, he pronounced the sentence: Barin and Ullaskar were sentenced to death; ten others, including Hemchandra Das, were sentenced to transportation for life; seven others to transportation or imprisonment for varying periods. The remaining seventeen... whose names were not read out, were acquitted. Among them were Sri Aurobindo and Nolini Kanta Gupta. Despite the severity of the sentences on the others (upon appeal the sentences on Barin and Ullaskar were reduced to transportation for life), there was widespread rejoicing at Sri Aurobindo's release. Along with the others who had been acquitted, Sri Aurobindo was taken straight to the house of ...
... court was thus engaged till the 13th April 1909. On the 14th April the opinions of the Assessors were taken and judgment was delivered on the 6th May 1909. "Accused Barindra Kumar Ghose and Ullaskar Dutt were sentenced to be hanged under sections 121, 121A, and 122 I.P.C... The properties of all these accused were also forfeited to Government.... The rest of the accused, viz., Nalini K. Gupta160... proper context. Some of the co-accused of Sri Aurobindo in the Alipore Bomb Case appealed to the High Court and, in consequence, a few sentences were reduced and few rescinded. Barindra, Ullaskar, Upendra etc., were sentenced to transportation for life instead of being hanged. It is interesting to note that all the young accused, whose ages varied from sixteen to twenty, divided... Narendra Bakshi, Nolini Gupta, Bejoy Nag, Puma Sen etc. were also released. C.R. Das appealed to the High Court on behalf of the other accused, some of whom had been sentenced to death. Barin and Ullaskar had their death sentences commuted into transportation for life. After his release, Sri Aurobindo put up at the office of Sanjivani, the organ edited by his uncle, Krishna Kumar Mitra, who ...
... touched many here. Nolini-da, along with a few, was one among those who had been touched. The matri-mantra Vande Mataram moved Ullaskar, that same Ullaskar who by his own efforts and intelligence had managed to make bombs without taking anybody’s help. That same Ullaskar who came to college one day with a slipper wrapped in a newspaper and made good use of it on Professor Russell as soon as he got ...
... days when there was no court to attend, he would often spend the time with us, sometimes we played word making games for learning the Bengali language; sometimes there would be a mock court in which Ullaskar would be the judge and Sri Aurobindo himself would become the Public Prosecutor imitating the arguments of Norton. He would expound on subjects like the philosophy of British law and justice, the... threatened that if the case was not dealt with, either Bijoy Kanta would be annihilated or the sadhak himself would commit suicide! So a court was set up at two in the morning! At the orator’s request, Ullaskar was made the judge and Sri Aurobindo agreed to take upon himself the role of counsel for the defendant. The court began. The counsels for the accused were Upen Bandopadhyaya, Hemchandra Das and others... court assembled to decide the date of pronouncing judgment. We were all present. Sri Aurobindo opened his mouth and spoke. He was talking about his realisations and Sadhana to Upen Bandyopadhyaya, Ullaskar Dutt and Nolini Kanta Gupta. He said “Vasudev Narayan has spoken to me, saying, ‘I have much work still to be done through you. I will take you out of prison’.” We then, one after another, taking ...
... say that the man in his position is not only standing before the bar of this Court but before the bar of the High Court of History.’ 52 The judgement was pronounced on 6 May 1909. Barin and Ullaskar Dutt, the chief bomb maker, were condemned to death; ten others were sentenced to deportation for life; seven more were sentenced from ten years to one year of transportation or imprisonment. The... them some education and to act as their protector and elder brother. The convicted in the Alipore Bomb Case were tried again in appeal before the High Court from 9 August to 12 October. Barin and Ullaskar Dutt had their death sentences commuted into deportation for life to the Andaman Islands. They were to be accompanied by eight others, most of whose terms were reduced, as were the other sentences... jailer’s standing joke when addressing newly arrived prisoners was: ‘God does not come within three miles of Port Blair.’ The terrorists were picked out for especially harsh treatment, so unbearable that Ullaskar Dutt went mad. (The jail in Port Blair is now a national monument.) Aurobindo had been warned by Sister Nivedita that the government intended to deport him or to appeal Judge Beachcroft’s verdict ...
... attention and began to listen with undivided attention." It was Ullaskar singing a patriotic song by Rabindranath. Sri Aurobindo had left standing instructions with Barin and his group that they were not to admit anything immediately if they were caught by the police, reminisced Nolini, one of the arrested young men. But Barin, Upen, Ullaskar, and some other senior members of the group made a full confession... only standing before the bar of this Court but before the bar of the High Court of History." * * * Beachcroft delivered his judgment on 6 May 1909 at 11 o'clock. Barin and Ullaskar were sentenced to death, but could appeal within one week. The Appellate Court delivered its judgement on 23 November 1909, commuting their death sentences to life transportation. Their destination ...
... college life. The dramatis personae were (1) Barindra Kumar Ghose, (2) Ullaskar Dutt, (3) Prafulla Kumar Chakravarti, (4) Bibhuti Bhushan Sarkar, and (5) Nolini Kanta Gupta. The plot was to manufacture bombs. Hitherto, there had been only preliminary investigations and initial experiments and efforts. Now Ullaskar came out with his Eureka. "All is ready," he said, "now there is going to be ...
... college life. The dramatis personae were (1) Barindra Kumar Ghose, (2) Ullaskar Dutt, (3) Prafulla Kumar Chakravarti, (4) Bibhuti Bhushan Sarkar, and (5) Nolini Kanta Gupta. The plot was to manufacture bombs. Hitherto, there had been only preliminary investigations and initial experiments and efforts. Now Ullaskar came out with his Eureka. "All is ready," he said, "now there is going to ...
... , whose courage, devotion and sacrifice for Her have been unparalleled. Although just eighteen years of age, he became a trusted colleague of such notable revolutionaries as Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Ullaskar Dutt, Hemchandra Das, Profulla Chaki, Khudiram Bose, Kanailal Dutt and Satyendranath Bose. Thus was forged the link that shaped Sudhir’s destiny. Profile of Sudhir K. Sarkar on the eve... the wall, our legs, waists and hands in fetters. They would torment us in that fashion for long eight hours at a stretch, for days together. Although suspended in this way, our compatriot Ullas-da (Ullaskar Dutt) would break into songs and produce music by banging the shackles on the walls. His joyous outbursts would make us all forget our anguish. When the authorities observed this, they separated us ...
... the Mother’s birthday, 21st February 1943 [ ↩ ] Thinking that the police had come to know of the bombs Ullaskar, one of the conspirators, removed a package containing bombs to the house of his friend Nagendranath, who knew nothing about its contents. Later, to save his friend, Ullaskar made a confession, but the police did not release the brothers. [ ↩ ] …“It is for us, the living, rather ...
... chief instructors, he was also responsible for the raising of funds and the collection of arms, ammunition and material for making explosives. By the end of 1907 the society's self-taught chemist, Ullaskar Dutt, was producing powerful bombs. Barin decided to use them for the assassination of certain unpopular Government officials. This, h£ thought, was the "voice of the People". Later when asked why ...
... desolate political landscape. The other extremist leaders were in exile or doing long prison sentences, and the publication of their daily newspapers and weekly magazines was forbidden. Barin and Ullaskar Dutt were condemned to death by hanging, but their sentence was later commuted to lifelong exile in the infamous prison of Port Blair, on the Andaman Islands, now a national monument. (Only in 1920 ...
... The trial lasted a whole year and in May 1909, some were discharged by the court and others were convicted. Three among those convicted were sentenced to death; these were Barindra, HemDas and UllasKar. Their death sentences were quashed on appeal and they were given transportation for life. On his release from jail, Sri Aurobindo resumed with full force his work for the country and began ...
... Aurobindo. In 1920 Dr. Munje, the Congress leader, came to Pondicherry and stayed as Sri Aurobindo's guest. He had long talks with Sri Aurobindo on current Indian politics. Barin Ghose came in 1920 and Ullaskar Dutt, who had, like Barin, been sentenced to death by the sessions judge at Alipore, but later given life imprisonment and ultimately released, came in 1920 or 1921. Abinash Bhattacharya, Sri Aurobindo's ...
... godhead and gets the divine life - be it at my touch or at another's - this is what I want. It is such men that will raise the country. Yours Sejda 36 Barin came to Pondicherry. Ullaskar Datta, one of the revolutionaries and a fellow worker of Barin also came. Some of the revolutionaries were trying to seek inspiration and guidance from Sri Aurobindo, but since Sri Aurobindo had ...
... fact of the matter is that the Indo-British government was scared of Babu Arabindo Ghose. True, it was now able to breathe a little more easily, since most of the known 'terrorists' like Barin, Upen, Ullaskar etc., had been banished for life to the Andamans. Other 'troublemakers' had been safely put behind bars. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was rotting in a jail in Mandalay (Burma). Bepin Pal had left India. As ...
... trustingly leave the entire responsibility for his life on Sudhir-da showed how much faith and reliance he placed in him. It is amazing even to think of it. The government convicted Barin Ghosh, Ullaskar Dutt, Upen Bandopadhyaya and, along with these principal revolutionaries, Sudhir-da was also sent away to the Andamans. And there, in spite of the thousand and one tortures and pains, he did not ...
... already explained how the boys learned much about the science of bomb-making from people like Sister Nivedita and Jagadish Chandra Bose. Of those young men, one of the brightest and most intelligent was Ullaskar Datta. He was the first to succeed in making a bomb for the Indian Swadeshi Movement. When Barin was setting up the factory he had sent Nolini to me with an invitation to go and see it. But for some ...
... 64 Dass, Poushpa, 774 Datta, Aswini Kumar, 184, 269, 343 Datta, Bhupendranath, 199, 234, 245, 305 Datta (Dorothy Hodgson), 526, 540, 548, 549, 575 Datta, Ullaskar, 219, 325, 329ff Dattagupta, Birendranath, 365 David-Neel, Alexandra, 395, 396, 399, 525 Dayanand Saraswati, 15, 16, 19, 60,452 Defence of Indian Culture, A, ...
... evenings there were musical soirees. Only patriotic and religious songs were sung; we used to sit around and hear Ullas, Sachindra, Hemdas, who were accomplished singers; on some evenings, for amusement, Ullaskar sang comic songs or acted, ventriloquised, mimed, or told stories about hemp addicts… Nobody paid any attention to the trial but all passed the days in religious pursuits or in just being gay. This ...
... and college corridors - Bande Mataram was at once the salvo of defiance of authority and a dedication to the service of the Mother. Earlier, in 1905, a young student of the Presidency College, Ullaskar Datta, "had thrashed with his shoe the professor of philosophy, an Englishman, for making some disparaging remarks about the Bengalis. The thrashing had been followed by cries of Bande Mataram ...
... younger brother, Barindra, who had given the formula for bomb-making to Chhotalal Purani, came to stay with his brother in 1920, having first (as we saw) corresponded with him about politics and Yoga. Ullaskar Datta, another revolutionary and close associate of Barin, also came towards the close of 1920. Page 537 After the years in the Andamans, he wasn't now quite the same man who had ...
... to conduct a secret test-explosion of a bomb they had made at the Gardens. The bomb did explode among the hills, but also killed one of the young men, Prafulla Chakravarti, and injured another, Ullaskar Datta. They were shaken, and Barin could only say: "This is a field of battle. Our first soldier has given up his body in the battlefield, this is our first casualty." 11 The body was left where ...
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