Swami Satyananda Puri
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Swami Satyanda Puri may refer to:
- Bhavabhushan MitraBhavabhushan MitraBhavabhushan Mitra, or Bhaba Bhusan Mitter, alias Swami Satyananda Puri was a Bengali Indian freedom fighter and an influential social worker....
- a Bengali Indian revolutionaryRevolutionary movement for Indian independenceThe Revolutionary movement for Indian independence is often a less-highlighted aspect of the Indian independence movement -- the underground revolutionary factions. The groups believing in armed revolution against the ruling British fall into this category. The revolutionary groups were...
intricately involved with the Jugantar Party and the Indo-German Conspiracy. - Prafulla Kumar SenPrafulla Kumar SenPrafulla Kumar Sen, also known as Swami Satyananda Puri, was an Indian revolutionary and philosopher. Puri, had in his youth taught Oriental philosophy at the University of Calcutta and later at Rabindranath Tagore's Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan. Encouraged by Tagore, he arrived in...
- A BengaliBengali peopleThe Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...
Indian philosopher who was involved with the Thai-Bharat Cultural LodgeThai-Bharat Cultural LodgeThe Thai-Bharat Cultural Lodge is one of the most prestigious Indian cultural organisation in Thailand that seeks to promote comparative studies and exchange between Thai and Indian history and culture. It was founded in 1940 in Bangkok by Swami Satyananda Puri with encouragement from the Indian...
and later was key in founding the Indian Independence LeagueIndian Independence LeagueThe Indian Independence League was a political organisation operated from the 1920s to the 1940s to organize those living outside of India into seeking the removal of British colonial rule over India...
in South-east Asia.