   chittaranjan das  (c. r. das) ( chittorÃ´njon dash) (popularly called deshbandhu "friend of the country") (5 november 1870 â 16 june 1925) was an indian politician and founder-leader of the swaraj (independence) party in bengal under british rule. ==personal life== he belonged to the famous das family of telirbagh (vaidya-brahmin), in bikrampur, dhaka (now in bangladesh). he was the son of bhuban mohan das, and nephew of the brahmo social reformer durga mohan das. some of his cousins were satish ranjan das, sudhi ranjan das, sarala roy and lady abala bose. his eldest grandson was siddhartha shankar ray and his granddaughter is justice manjula bose. ==career== educated in england, where he became a barrister, his public career began in 1909 when he successfully defended aurobindo ghosh on charges of involvement in the previous year's alipore bomb case. he was a leading figure in bengal during the non-cooperation movement of 1919-1922, and initiated the ban on british clothes, setting an example by burning his own european clothes and wearing khadi clothes. at one time, his clothes were tailored and washed in paris and he maintained a permanent laundry in paris to ship his clothes to calcutta. he sacrificed all this luxury when he became attached to the freedom movement. he brought out a newspaper called forward and later changed its name to liberty to fight the british raj. when the calcutta municipal corporat
1870_births 1925_deaths Bengali_people Brahmos Das_family_of_Telirbagh Indian_barristers Indian_independence_activists People_from_Bikrampur People_from_Kolkata Presidents_of_the_Indian_National_Congress