Anushiland Samithi and the Revolutionary Movement

Anushiland Samithi literally means the discipline committee. It's because this is actually a network of these Akhara's where young men, sometimes women as well, would basically meet each other and these revolutionary ideas would spread. So that's my father's family. And they were then thrown out of Varanasi and all their properties were confiscated around about 1927 by the British. By the British as a result of the Karkori conspiracy. Sachin Anath Sanyal was sent off to Kalapani for the second time. To Salulajal. But what happens is that my branch of the family ends up in what is now Prayagraj but then called

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