Sachindra Nath Sanyal

Sachindra Nath Sanyal was born in 1893 in Varanasi and was a co-founder of the Hindustan Republican army. He was one of the towering figures of the revolutionary strand of India’s independence movement. Uniquely, he was a key part of virtually every generation of the movement from the early Anushilan Samiti phase, through the Ghadarite and Hindustan Republican association phases, and eventually to the revival during World War ii. He died in 1942 in Gorakhpur, unfortunately before India’s Independence. Sanyal was among the first to clearly articulate the vision that post- independence India would be a democratic republic based on universal franchise.