(1929-01-01)1 January 1929 Shillong, Assam, British India
Died
26 August 2020(2020-08-26) (aged 91) Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Awards
Bir Uttom[1]
Military service
Allegiance
Bangladesh
Pakistan (before 1971)
Branch/service
Pakistan Army
Bangladesh Army
Bangladesh Rifles
Years of service
1952-1974
Rank
Major General
Unit
Wilde's Rifles(PIF)(1952–1971) East Bengal Regiment (1971–1974)
Commands
Director General of BGB
Commander of 72nd Independent Infantry Brigade
Commander of Sector – IV
Battles/wars
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Bangladesh Liberation War
Chitta Ranjan Dutta Bir Uttom (1 January 1929 – 26 August 2020),[2] also known as C R Dutta, was a Bangladeshi war hero who served as major-general of the Bangladesh Army. He was a key sector commander of the Mukti Bahini during the Bangladesh Liberation War. After independence, he served as the armed forces commander in Rangpur and later went on to become the first director-general of the Bangladesh Rifles (present-day Border Guards Bangladesh) in 1973.
Dutta was a prominent minority rights advocate in Bangladesh. He was also the president of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council.
^Bangladesh Gazette of 15 December, 1973; Ministry of Liberation War Affairs
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aided by 9,000 regular freedom fighters. They were commanded by ChittaRanjanDutta, and later Mohammad Abdur Rab. The headquarters of Sector 4 was initially...
member of the Bengal Legislative Council. In 1925, after the death of ChittaRanjan Das, Sengupta was elected president of the Bengal Swaraj Party. He also...
Ajoy Kumar Dutta, Janata Party 1983: Munin Sarmah, Indian National Congress 1985: Biraj Kumar Sarma, Asom Gana Parishad. 1991: ChittaRanjan Patowari,...
(trans.). Retrieved 13 January 2016. De, Amalendu; Roy, Keka Dutta; Misra, ChittaRanjan (2009). Reflections in History: Essays in Honour of Professor...
Party of India Purulia ChittaRanjan Mahata Forward Bloc (Marxist) Raiganj Dr. Golam Yazdani Indian National Congress (I) Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi Indian National...
innocence. Basu's dedications made in her books show that Basu's father was ChittaRanjan Basu. She has two sisters, and two daughters. In 2024, for her contributions...
Dr Phulrenu Guha (née Dutta, Bengali:ফুলরেণু গুহ; born 13 August 1911) was an Indian activist, educationist and politician, belonging to the Indian National...
). Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad (সাহিত্য সংসদ). p. 190. ISBN 81-85626-65-0. Dutta-Ray, Sunanda K (4 June 2016). "WB Polls: Mamata's triumph, a victory of...
president of the Indian Youth Congress. Initially, he belonged to the Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi faction. However, in 1976 he first switched to the Somen Mitra...
During this period he also came in contact with Bhupendranath Dutta (brother of Narendranath Dutta, better known as Swami Vivekananda). According to his own...
faction led by anti-Communist leaders like Siddharta Shankar Ray & Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was stauchly opposed to it. The rivalry between these 2 groups...
Results". "Only Mamata Banerjee could defeat Somnath Chatterjee". Prabhash K Dutta. India Today. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018. "Comrades' (unsung)...
Mukherjee dies at 100". The Hindu. 18 July 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2017. Dutta, Ananya (8 November 2012). "Veteran CPI (M) leader turns 100". The Hindu...
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