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Kanaklata Barua
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Kanaklata Barua (22 December 1924 – 20 September 1942), also called Birbala and Shaheed (martyr), was an Indian independence activist and AISF leader who was shot dead by the Indian Imperial Police of the British Raj while leading a procession bearing the National Flag during the Quit India Movement of 1942.
Quotes
You can kill our human bodies but not our souls made of iron. O Britishers! Whatever measures you adopt to stop us will fail. We shall continue to proceed. None can stop us from hoisting our national flag at the police post.
— Kanaklata Barua. in Rawal M. S. & Rawal Y. S. (2019). Saffron swords. Garuda Prakashan.
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Category:1924 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:Indian independence movement