Bengal's Last Wave

After Chittagong the fight moved to the heart of Calcutta and the district towns. Three young men walked into the seat of government in European dress; two schoolgirls shot a magistrate in Comilla; a graduate fired at the Governor at her own convocation.

Lessons in this chapter

• The Writers' Building Winter — Three young men in European dress walked into the Government of Bengal on 8 December 1930, and the wave that followed was the youngest Bengal had ever sent.
• Three Men in European Dress — The noon attack on the Inspector General of Prisons, the corridor they chose not to leave, and the ninety two letters one of them wrote from a condemned cell
• Convocation Day — A twenty year old graduand fired five shots at the Governor of Bengal on Convocation Day, missed with all five, and then explained herself in writing.
• Two Schoolgirls in Comilla — Fifteen and fourteen, they walked into the District Magistrate's room at Comilla with a letter about a swimming club, and spent the next eight years in jail for what they did there
• The Hunger Strike at Port Blair — A hunger strike in the Cellular Jail, three men killed by the tube meant to keep them alive, and the ship that finally brought the rest home
• Lebong Racecourse, 8 May 1934 — Two shots at a Governor, a suitcase carried up the mountain by a girl of nineteen, and the end of Bengal's armed wave

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