19 Facts About Bipin Chandra Pal

Bipin Chandra Pal was an Indian nationalist, writer, orator, social reformer and Indian independence movement freedom fighter.

Bipin Chandra Pal opposed the partition of Bengal by the British colonial government.

Bipin Chandra Pal was born in the village of Poil, Habiganj, Sylhet District, Bengal Presidency of British India, in a Hindu Bengali Kayastha family.

Bipin Chandra Pal's father was Ramchandra Pal, a Persian scholar, and small landowner.

Bipin Chandra Pal studied and taught at the Church Mission Society College, an affiliated college of the University of Calcutta.

Bipin Chandra Pal studied comparative theology for a year at New Manchester College, Oxford in England but did not finish the course.

Bipin Chandra Pal is known as the Father of Revolutionary Thoughts in India.

Bipin Chandra Pal became a major leader of the Indian National Congress.

At the Madras session of Indian National Congress held in 1887, Bipin Chandra Pal made a strong plea for repeal of the Arms Act which was discriminatory in nature.

Sri Aurobindo Ghosh and Bipin Chandra Pal were recognised as the chief exponents of a new national movement revolving around the ideals of Purna Swaraj, Swadeshi, boycott and national education.

Bipin Chandra Pal's programme consisted of Swadeshi, boycott and national education.

Bipin Chandra Pal preached and encouraged the use of Swadeshi and the boycott of foreign goods to eradicate poverty and unemployment.

Bipin Chandra Pal wanted to remove social evils from the form and arouse the feelings of nationalism through national criticism.

Bipin Chandra Pal had no faith in mild protests in the form of non-cooperation with the British colonial government.

Bipin Chandra Pal made efforts to remove social and economic ills.

Bipin Chandra Pal opposed the caste system and advocated widow remarriage.

Bipin Chandra Pal advocated a 48 hour working week and demanded a hike in the wages of workers.

Bipin Chandra Pal wrote several articles warning India of the changes happening in China and other geopolitical situations.

In one of his writings, describing where the future danger for India would come from, Bipin Chandra Pal wrote under the title "Our Real Danger".