Gopinath Saha
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Gopinath Saha was a Bengali Indian freedom fighter who attempted to assassinate Charles Tegart, the then head of the Detective Department of Calcutta Police. On 12 January 1924 Saha attempted to kill Tegart, but erroneously killed Ernest day, a British civilian. Saha was arrested and executed by the government.
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- Amit Kumar Gupta. Defying Death: Nationalist Revolutionism in India, 1897-1938. Social Scientist, Vol. 25, No. 9/10 (Sep. - Oct., 1997), pp. 3-27 .
- Movement in India during 1920s and 1930s Revolutionary Movement in India during 1920s and 1930s. Retrieved on 25 May 2008.
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