Voice 9, News Desk: Sagar Kutir (a cottage named after the freedom fighter Sagarlala Hazra) was one of the independence movement's secret bases. Sagar Kutir is located in the village of Baradongal, on the banks of the Dwarkeshwar River. This area was completely covered with trees.
And from here, the revolutionaries' secret
letters would be delivered to various locations by the women and children of
the hamlet, with dust in the eyes of the British police. The men and women of
the community are reported to have lost blood in the conflict with the British
police while guarding this house, yet the Sagar Kutir of Baradongal village in
Arambagh is now mostly neglected. Many of the walls have cracked and, in other
cases, fallen.
Rare photographs of
academics were stolen. Because none of the Arambagh sub-division freedom
fighters are living now, history is being forgotten. Prafulla Chandra Sen, the
state's chief minister at the time, picked the location for flood relief
operations in 1921. Anukul Chakraborty is a name used by villagers.
They abandoned the area
to make it a safe sanctuary for freedom fighters. Despite the British police
raid, a home with a cemented wall and three doors on three sides was erected to
allow them to flee swiftly.
The Hooghly District
Conference was convened in 1930 in preparation for the civil disobedience
movement, according to history. The Kutir serves as the district's disobedience
movement's headquarters. During the same meeting, the district's cottage was
named for the late independence warrior Sagarlal Hazra.
The British government ruled the disobedience committee unlawful on February 27, 1931, and the British police took the Kutir the next day. To bring the cottage back, a women's organization was established in the neighborhood.
Famous freedom fighters such
as Prafulla Ghosh, Bijoy Modak, and Ramakrishna Mitra used to visit here at
various times. Members of the group and residents stated the cottage was
gradually deteriorating. The rectangular shape outside the cottage was being
repaired, but the main chamber was not. They want the area to be designated as
a heritage monument.
Source: HOOGHLY DISTRICT
