Aurobindo Ghose

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Sarala Ghosal

Sister Nibedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble)

Peter Kroptokin

Kakuzo Okakura

The Leaders

1. Barindra Kumar Ghose: Aurobindo’s brother, became leader of a revolutionary secret society in 1906

2. Upendra Nath Bannerjee: was responsible for society’s religious instruction

3. Ullas Kar Das: was the group’s principal bomb maker until Hem Chandra returned from Paris

4. Hem Chandra Das was so committed to the cause of kicking the British out of India that he sold his house in Kolkata for his trip to Paris for learning political theory and bomb making. In Paris Hem learned political theory and explosive chemistry from the Russian Nicholas Safranski and others.

The Scorpions

The members of the secret society organized by Barin Ghose. From top left clockwise: 1.    Indu Bhusan Ray 2. Birendra Nath Ghose 3. Bibuti Bhusan Sarkar 4. Sudhir Kumar Sarkar 5. Indra Nath Nandi 6. Bijoy Kumar Nag 7. Sailendra Nath Basu 8. Kristo Jiban Sanyal 9. Abinash Chandra Bhattacharya.

The Maniktola Garden: headquarter of the secret society