Sachindranath Sanyal

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Written by Shriya Dasgupta and Oyeshi Ganguly, Sep 18, 2026: The Indian Express

The inheritance of revolution

Sachindranath Sanyal was another prominent revolutionary of the period. Born in Varanasi into a Bengali family, he founded a branch of the revolutionary Anushilan Samiti in Patna in 1913 and took part in the Delhi Conspiracy against Viceroy Hardinge. He later played a role in planning the 1915 Ghadar Mutiny. After Bose fled to Japan, Sachindranath emerged as one of the movement’s senior figures, mentoring younger revolutionaries including Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh.

The mutiny formed part of the broader Indo-German Conspiracy, which saw members of the Ghadar Party return from North America to Punjab to foment an anti-British uprising. The revolutionaries sought to coordinate a pan-Indian mutiny within the British-Indian Army in February 1915. Sachindranath played a key role in connecting revolutionary networks in eastern India with those in the north.

In 1924, he co-founded the Hindustan Republican Association (later HSRA) to pursue armed resistance against British rule. Convicted in the Banaras Conspiracy case (1917) and Kakori Conspiracy case (1925), Sachindranath was one of the few revolutionaries to be transported twice to the Cellular Jail in the Andamans, where he wrote his memoir, Bandi Jeevan. He died of tuberculosis in Gorakhpur jail in 1942.

Recalling Sachindranath’s role in the freedom struggle, his nephew Surajit Sanyal says their family home in Madanpura, Uttar Pradesh, was often frequented by revolutionaries like Sri Aurobindo even in the early years of armed struggle.

Sachindranath travelled to Calcutta to hand over money looted during the Kakori Robbery to barrister-politician and freedom fighter Chittaranjan Das, to support the then-young Subhas Chandra Bose’s dream of raising an army against the British.

Emphasising how the networks of secret societies operated across generations and regions, Surajit says Sachindranath not only inspired his brothers, all of whom became revolutionaries, but also helped raise Bhagat Singh as his political protégé.

Humanising the heroes

More than a century later, the stories of these revolutionaries reveal a dimension of India’s freedom struggle that is often overshadowed by better-known narratives of the nationalist movement.

Their lives demonstrate that the revolutionary struggle was not limited to isolated acts of violence or individual heroism. It was sustained by extensive networks of families, friends, sympathisers and ordinary people who took enormous personal risks.

As The Revolutionaries brings some of these forgotten figures back into public conversation, their descendants offer another way of understanding that history: through ordinary people who transcended extraordinary obstacles, and through the families who continued to live with the personal costs of the struggle for India’s freedom.