Khudiram Bose (also spelled Khudiram Basu), born on 3 December 1889, in Midnapore, Bengal
Presidency, British India (now Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India, was an
Indian nationalist from Bengal Presidency who opposed British
rule of India. For his role in the Muzaffarpur Conspiracy Case,
along with Prafulla Chaki, he was sentenced to death, for the attempted
assassination of a British judge, Magistrate Douglas Kingsford, by throwing
bombs on the carriage they suspected the man was in. Magistrate Kingsford,
however, was seated in a different carriage, and the throwing of bombs resulted
in the deaths of two British women. Prafulla fatally shot himself before the
arrest. Khudiram was arrested and tried for the murder of the two women,
ultimately being sentenced to death. He was one of the first Indian
revolutionaries in Bengal to be executed by the British.
