Chittaranjan Das

Chittaranjan Das (born November 5, 1870, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died June 16, 1925, Darjeeling ) was an Indian politician, a leader of the Indian National Congress, a lawyer, and a poet. He was an integral part of the Indian Independence Movement and the founder of the Swaraj (“Self-Rule”) Party in Bengal under British rule. The people of India honored him with the title Deshbandhu (“Friend of the Country”).