Freedom movement · Journalism · Public service
Life and work
1911–1980 · Freedom fighter, editor and legislator
Dasarathi Tah joined the Congress in 1930 and participated in the Salt Satyagraha and Quit India movements. His later political career included representing Raina in the West Bengal Assembly in the first general election after independence, and again in 1957 and 1967, first with the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party and later the Praja Socialist Party.[1]
Journalism was another lasting part of his work. He edited and published Damodar, which began as a weekly before independence and later became a daily. A Bengali local-history account also remembers his wife, freedom fighter Roma Tah, keeping the paper running while he worked underground. Their story connects the region’s freedom movement with the practical work of sustaining a newspaper.[1][2]
Achintya Kumar Dutta includes him in his discussion of Ugra Kshatriya figures in Explorations in Colonial Bengal (2023), p. 314. Spellings of names vary between publications.[3]