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Chittaranjan Das
1870Nov, 5

Chittaranjan Das

Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1925)
Chittaranjan Das (5 November 1870 – 16 June 1925), popularly called Deshbandhu (Friend of the Nation), was an Indian freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian independence movement and founder-leader of the Swaraj Party (Independence party) in Bengal during the period of British colonial rule in India. His name is abbreviated as C. R. Das.

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