গুগল বুক্স থেকে যত টুকু পাওয়া গিয়েছে-
Another area on Midnapur active in the civil disobedience
movement was Contai. About 30 subcentres were at Contai subdivision on 26th
april 1930 under the direction pf Prafulla Chandra Sen. The centre at Contai
was directly under the control of civil disobedience committee. By the end of
the season about 60 centres were opted in the subdivision where thousands of
people gathered to manufacture and export salt. The civil disobedience
committee of the provincial Congress committee promised to help such centres
opened by the district Congress Committees. The movement in Contai was
strengthened by volunteers from other provinces. For example Satyagrahis from
landlocked regions like Ram Nagore in Bihar’s Jallesore thana participated in
the salt satyagraha in Contai. A remarkable feature of the salt satyagraha of
Contai was that here the people participated of their own violation, even when
there was no effort by the leaders to involve them. A committee comprising of J
N Bose, P Mukherjee, Member of the Legisletive Council, P R Sen, Professor of
Calcutta University, Khitish Neogy and B N Sasmal visited Contai in the midst
of the campaign. As the committee arrived, crowed of villagers gathered to make
salt. The committee also received registered letter from Behuna, Subarnadighi
and Pichaboni carrying the message of the people that they wished to break the
salt law.
Narendia Khal in Ramnagore had been centre of illicit salt
making for a long time. On 21 May, some volunteers arrived at Ramnagore and
gave a call to make salt openly. On 6 June, 1930, between 800 and 1,000men gathered on
bath the sides of the Narendia Khal to make salt. The sub-inspector who crossed
the canal where salt was being made, broke the salt chulas and handis and asked
the crowed to disperse. When the crowed refused to obey, he arrested a local
volunteer who was leading the protesters. The crowed immediately flew into
action trying to rescue him. They attacked the police with brickbats, stones,
clods of earth and lathis which they kept hidden in the canal. The Pratapdighi,
Contai subdivision, on 31 May some volunteers arrives at the Pratapdighi hat to
manufacture salt. The volunteers erected tin shed with the help of the
villagers. The daroga who appeared in the sceneexplein to the villagers the
illegality of this action and asked them to leave. Some relented but most
refused. As the sub-inspector was leading the volunteers away one villager,
Laksmi Narayan Das of Mazna, shouted ‘I have all along hid my opinions. I now
come out in the open to do…
From
Congress
Politics in Bengal 1919-1939 By
Srilata Chatterjee
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