Surya Sen

Bengali revolutionary who led the 1930 Chittagong Armory Raid against British rule using guerrilla warfare tactics

Known as Masterda, Surya Sen (1894-1934) engineered India's first coordinated military-style assault on British colonial infrastructure. His 1930 raid simultaneously cut telegraph lines, seized armories, and paralyzed railway networks - tactics later studied by global resistance movements.

Sen's greatest innovation was creating jungle training camps for teenage revolutionaries, predating modern guerrilla warfare schools by decades. Despite capture and execution, his 'Indian Republican Army' concept directly inspired Subhas Chandra Bose's later armed resistance.

Modern Bangladesh honors Sen through augmented reality memorials at Chittagong Circuit House, where he was hanged. Recent declassified files reveal British officers feared his potential to unite Hindu-Muslim rebels - a legacy explored in the 2021 Kolkata Biennale.