page_title: Pulin Behari Das
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Pulin Behari Das / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Faridpur Zilla School
context_page_description: Pulin Behari Das was an Indian revolutionary and the founder-president of the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti.
context_section_description: Pulin came from a middle class Bengali Hindu family. Though they held some landed property they were mostly employed in colonial jobs. His father was an advocate at the sub-divisional court in Madaripur. One of his uncles was a Deputy Magistrate while another was munsif. Pulin was born to Naba Kumar Das in the village of Lonesingh, in the district of Shariatpur in the year 1877.
  Pulin passed the Entrance examination from Faridpur Zilla School in 1894. He attended the Dhaka College and became the laboratory assistant and demonstrator while still a student at the college. From his childhood Pulin was attracted to physical culture. He was a very good lathial. Inspired by the success of Sarala Devi's akhada in Kolkata, he opened an akhara at Tikatuli in 1903. In 1905, he trained in fencing and lathi khela under Murtaza, the famous lathial.
caption: Faridpur Zilla School, where he studied
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