Surendranath Banerjea

Surendranath was a popular journalist,nationalist leader and dedicated educationist.He successfully competed for the indian civil service in 1869 but on technical grounds he was disqualified.After a court judgement in his favour, he was inducted into yhe civil services,but was soon dismissed on flimsy grounds.After dismissal,he plunged into the role of public agitator fighting to erdress the grievances of all those who had suffered.he mooted the idea of holding a national conference of representatives from political associations all over the country.Published the paper Bengali.One of the founders of the INC,he walked out of the Congress in 1918,after the emergence of Mahatma Gandhi on the I... For pictures, videos and lots more, go to Surendranath Banerjea's Profile