Anusilan Samiti
Anusilan Samiti, established in 1902 or 1903, was a group of social clubs in Bengal, opposed to British colonization of India. Sister Nivedita, “an Anglo-Irish transplant”, introduced anarchism to the group; on her way to India, she discovered Kropotkin, whose work “confirm[ed] me in my determination towards Anarchy”. The group carried out targeted assassinations, bombings, sabotage and banditry.[1]
At their headquarters in the outskirts of Calcutta, Upen Babu taught callses in “explosives, mechanics and anarchism,” according to the historian Peter Heech. Other classes focused on the Bhagavad Gita, economics, history, geography and revolution.[2]
Arusilan Samiti published two papers, one in English and oen in Bengali. The English-language paper did advocate the taking of state power.
- ↑ Maria Ramnath, Decolonizing Anarchism: An Anti-Authoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle (Oakland: AK Press, 2011), 48-9. http://libcom.org/files/Maia%20Ramnath%20-%20Decolonizing%20Anarchism.pdf.
- ↑ Ramnath, Decolonizing Anarchism, 50.
