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India's Struggle for Freedom (3rd Series) (click for stamp information)
India's Struggle for Freedom (3rd Series) (click for stamp information)

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India's Struggle for Freedom (3rd Series) (click for stamp information)
Issue Date
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22 July 1985
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50
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Jatindra Mohan Sengupta

 

Jatindra Mohan Sengupta was born at Barama, a village in Chittagong, now in Bangladesh. His father Jatra Mohan Sen was a leading lawyer and a member of the Bengal Legistative Council.

 

Educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, Jatindra Mohan went to England in 1904, from where he took his degree in Law and was called to the Bar. He returned to India but gave up legal practice in 1921, when he became actively involved in the Non-Cooperation movement. Jatindra Mohan started his political career in 1911 as a delegate from Chittagong to the Bengal Provincial Conference at Faridpur. Thereafter, he worked as Secretary of the Congress, Chairman of the Reception Committees and was elected to the Bengal Legislative Council in 1923. After the death of C. R. Das, he became in 1925, President  of the Bengal Swaraj Party, leader of the Congress Party in the Bengal Legislative Council and President of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee.

 

He was one of  the  earlier  leaders  of the trade union movement as President of the Burma Oil Labour Union  and  of the Assam-Bengal Railway Union. He played a leading role in municipal politics in Calcutta as leader of the Congress Municipal Association and Mayor of the city, for as many as five terms. Jatindra Mohan organised relief in all natural calamities and worked for the cause of peace and  harmony.

 

Jatindra Mohan's many sided contributions to the promotion of national consciousness were gratefully acknowledged by the people of Bengal who lovingly called  him  'Deshpriya'  (Beloved of the Country). He suffered  imprisonment for several terms and died as an internee at Ranchi on 23 July,  1933.

 

Nellie Sengupta

 

An English woman earnestly serving the cause of Indians and their Freedom, dignified and unassuming, courageous and ever prepared to take risks and suffer privations, Nellie Sengupta naturally won the love and esteem of  all Indians.

 

Daughter of Fredrick William and Edith Henrietta Gray, Nellie was born in 1886 at Cambridge, England.  In 1909 she married Jatindra Mohan Sengupta. who was then studying in England and came to settle down in Chittagong.

 

1921 saw Jatindra Mohan Sengupta actively participating in the National Movement and Nellie wholeheartedly participated in the struggle.  She  protested against the orders of the District authorities and was arrested in 1931. for four months for  addressing an unlawful assembly. In  the  early  thirties   Nellie  was  chosen to take  over  from  Madan  Mohan Malviya, at a "time when most of the Congress leaders were in jail.

 

The Calcutta Corporation elected her an Alderman and she was returned uncontested to the Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1940 and was re-elected in 1946.  After  partition  she  chose  to live in Pakistan and was returned unopposed to the East Pakistan Legislature in 1954.

 

Nellie Sengupta came to India for medical  treatment  and died  in  Calcutta in 1973.

 

The Department of Posts is proud to issue this special stamp in honour of Deshpriya Jatindra Mohan Sengupta and Nellie Sengupta, amongst the foremost of our freedom fighters and nationalists.

 

Source : Information Folder issued by Indian Posts & Telegraph Department, Government of India

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