Ananta Singh
| Ananta Singh | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 December 1903 Chittagong, Bengal, British Raj (now in Bangladesh) |
| Died | 25 January 1979 (aged 75) |
| Occupation | Independence Activist |
| Nationality | Indian |
Ananta Lal Singh (Bengali: অনন্তলাল সিংহ) (1 December 1903 - 25 January 1979) was an Indian revolutionary, who participated in the Chittagong armoury raid in 1930. Later, he founded a far-left radical communist group, the Revolutionary Communist Council of India.
In the 2010 Hindi film Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, actor Maninder Singh played his role and in the movie Chittagong, Jaideep Ahalawat ('GoW' fame) did it.
Ananta Singh was born in 1 December 1903 at Chittagong. His father's name was Golap Singh. Singh's ancestors were Punjabi Rajputs who migrated from Agra and settled in Chittagong. He met Surya Sen while he was studying in the Chittagong Municipal School and became his follower.
Singh's involvement in the Indian nationalist movement began with the Non-cooperation movement in 1921. Although, he motivated the his schoolmates to join the movement, he personally did not have much faith in the movement. On 14 December 1923, he and Nirmal Sen led the robbery at the treasury office of the Assam Bengal Railway according to the plan made by Surya Sen and clashed with the police after the robbery on 24 December. He fled from the scene after the robbery and reached Calcutta after a short stay at Sandwip. He was arrested in Calcutta but released soon. He was again arrested in 1924 and imprisoned for four years.
After his release, he founded a gymnasium and recruited many youths for the revolutionary movement led by Surya Sen. On 18 April 1930, he was one of the leaders of the Chittagong armoury raid. After the incident, he was able to flee to French territory Chandernagore. But, after hearing the news of the torture faced by his fellow revolutionaries who were already in jail, he surrendered to the police on 28 June 1930 in Calcutta and faced the trial. In the trial, he was sentenced to transportation for life and sent to the Cellular Jail in Port Blair. After, a long hunger strike in the Cellular Jail in 1932, he was brought back to a mainland jail along with a number of his fellow political prisoners due to an initiative undertakan by Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. After his final release in 1946, he joined the Communist Party of India.
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