Bipin Chandra Pal, an Indian nationalist, writer, orator, social reformer, and activist in the Indian independence movement, died in 1932.
Bipin Chandra Pal (7 November 1858 – 20 May 1932) was an Indian nationalist, writer, orator, social reformer, and freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement. He was one of three members of the "Lal Bal Pal" triumvirate. Pal, along with Sri Aurobindo, was a key architect of the Swadeshi movement. He also opposed the British colonial government's partition of Bengal.
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