Federation Hall, Kolkata
{{Short description|Nationalist organization of India}}
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Federation Hall is a historical heritage building and nationalist institution of British India, situated at APC Road in Kolkata, West Bengal. The Federation Hall society was founded in 1905. Sister Nivedita proposed the name of the hall as Milan Mandir.{{Cite news |date=2022-10-08 |title=West Bengal: Heritage plaque for Banga Bhanga protest library |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/heritage-plaque-for-banga-bhanga-protest-library/articleshow/94716044.cms |access-date=2024-09-13 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}
History
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While Lord Curzon proposed the Partition of Bengal in 1905, Bengali nationalist figure like Surendra Nath Banerjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Taraknath Palit, Ananda Mohan Bose formed this educational, cultural and socio-political organisation.{{Cite book |last1=Chakrabarti |first1=Kunal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVOFAAAAQBAJ&dq=federation+hall+kolkata&pg=PA77 |title=Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis |last2=Chakrabarti |first2=Shubhra |date=2013-08-22 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-8024-5 |language=en}} It was founded on 16 October 1905 in Kolkata on Raksha Bandhan ceremony.{{Cite book |last=Laxmi |first=Jina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M1VmEAAAQBAJ&dq=federation+hall+kolkata&pg=PA180 |title=SELF-HELP TO I.C.S.E. HISTORY & CIVICS 10 (FOR 2022-23 EXAMINATIONS) |publisher=Ravinder Singh and sons |language=en}} Anti partition movement was vastly organised by the society in all over the Bengal.{{Cite book |last=Basu |first=Vipu; Singh, Jasmine Dhillon, Gita Shanmugavel, Sucharita |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lZ0npHsht_MC&dq=federation+hall+kolkata&pg=PA52 |title=History And Civics |publisher=Pearson Education India |isbn=978-81-317-6318-6 |language=en}} Acharya P.C. Ray, Rashbehari Ghosh, Bipin Chandra Pal, Manindra Chandra Nandi, Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, Bhupendra Nath Basu, Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Krishna Kumar Mitra, Brahmabandhav Upadhyay, Khwaja Atiqullah of Dacca, Abdul Halim Gaznavi, Dr. Nilratan Sircar were also associated with the philanthropist society.{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://thefederationhall.org/history#dots |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=thefederationhall.org}}{{Cite news |title=কলকাতা কড়চা: অখণ্ড বাংলার প্রতীক |newspaper=The Times of India |date=8 October 2022 |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/heritage-plaque-for-banga-bhanga-protest-library/articleshow/94716044.cms |access-date=13 September 2024}}
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