Harendranath Munshi

Harendranath Munshi (Bengali: হরেন্দ্রনাথ মুন্সী, died: 30 January, 1938) was an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter involved in the Indian independence movement during 1930s.

[6] In 1934, he was sentenced to 5 years of rigorous imprisonment in the inter-provincial conspiracy case and he was first transferred to Diamond Harbour and later to Dhaka Central Jail.

In the Dhaka Central Jail he started fatal hunger strike since 21 January, 1938, to exhibit his protest against inhuman treatments with the political prisoners and their classification as criminals.

[4][7] As a result of his fatal hunger strike, Munshi was courted the martyrdom on 30 January in 1938 during a brutal force feeding process.

After his martyrdom, The West Australian covered the news under the title "Young Man's Determined Protest".