01Khudiram’s district
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was born in 1820 at Birsingha in this district. Khudiram Bose was born in a village of Midnapore on 3 December 1889, lost his parents young, and was raised by his elder sister. At school in Midnapore town his teacher Satyendranath Bose drew him into the revolutionary circle during the Swadeshi agitation, and he was arrested in 1906 for handing out seditious pamphlets. In 1908 he went to Muzaffarpur with Prafulla Chaki, and was hanged there in August at eighteen.
02Three magistrates and a free government
In the early 1930s the Bengal Volunteers made Midnapore the hardest district in India for a British officer. District Magistrate James Peddie was shot in April 1931, Robert Douglas in April 1932 and Bernard Burge, at a football match, in September 1933. In the Quit India movement the Tamluk subdivision set up the Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar, which ran its own administration from December 1942 into 1944. On 29 September 1942 Matangini Hazra, a widow of seventy-three, led a march on the Tamluk police station holding the tricolour and was shot dead still holding it.
The life of this place
- 3 December 1889Khudiram Bose is born in Midnapore district.
- 1931–33Three district magistrates, Peddie, Douglas and Burge, are killed.
- 29 September 1942Matangini Hazra is shot at Tamluk.
- December 1942The Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar is proclaimed.
