Surendranath Banerjee
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Surendranath Banerjee
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| Born |
10 November 1848 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India) |
| Died | 6 August 1925 (aged 76) Barrackpore, Bengal Presidency, British India (now West Bengal, India) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Other names | Surrender Not Banerjee,Indian Gladstone,Indian Edmund Burke |
| Occupation | Professor |
Sir Surendranath Banerjee 
pronunciation (Bengali: সুরেন্দ্রনাথ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) (10 November 1848 – 6 August 1925) was one of the earliest Indian political leaders during the British Raj. He founded the Indian National Association, one of the earliest Indian political organizations, and later became a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He also organised two sessions of Indian National Conference in 1883 and 1885. Surendranath Banerjee and Anandamohan Bose were main architect of Indian National Conference. Surendranath also founded Indian National Liberation Federation. He was also known by the sobriquet Rashtraguru. He was editor of "The Bengali" newspaper.
Surendranath Banerjee was born in Calcutta (Kolkata), in the province of Bengal to a Bengali Brahmins family. He was deeply influenced in liberal, progressive thinking by his father Durga Charan Banerjee, a doctor. Banerjee was educated at the Parental Academic Institution and at the Hindu College. After graduating from the University of Calcutta, he traveled to England in 1868, along with Romesh Chunder Dutt and Behari Lal Gupta, to compete in the Indian Civil Service examinations. He cleared the competitive examination in 1869, but was barred owing to a dispute over his exact age. After clearing the matter in the courts, Banerjee cleared the exam again in 1871 and was posted as assistant magistrate in Sylhet.
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