Chittagong

On 18 April 1930 a schoolteacher named Surya Sen led sixty-odd young people to seize the armouries of Chittagong and hold the town for a night. This chapter follows the raid, the hill at Jalalabad, and the five people who paid for it over the next four years.

Lessons in this chapter

• Easter Week, 1930 — The board before the raid, the night of 18 April, the stand on Jalalabad hill, and the four years that followed
• Master da — The schoolteacher who spent twelve years building a network, one night spending it, and three years on the run keeping it alive
• The Man Who Held the Armoury — He took the police armoury in ten minutes, then spent five months running and sixteen years in prison
• The Surrender at Calcutta — The escape at Feni, the safe town on the Hooghly, and the day he walked back into British hands because the boys in the Chittagong cells could not
• Pahartali, September 1932 — The unfinished target from 1930, the fortnight of training, the night of 24 September 1932, and the leaflets found in her pocket
• The Girl Who Wrote It Down — Taken at nineteen, sentenced to life, and the one of the five who lived to write the raid down

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