- Prafulla Kumar Sen
: "This article is on Prafulla Kumar Sen. For other individuals using the alias Satyananda Puri, see
Swami Satyananda Puri ." Prafulla Kumar Sen, also known as Swami Satyananda Puri, was an Indian revolutionary and philosopher. Puri, had in his youth taughtOriental philosophy at theUniversity of Calcutta and laterRabindranath Tagore 'sVisva-Bharati University atSantiniketan . Encouraged by Tagore, he arrived inThailand in1932 , and in 1939, he founded theThai-Bharat Lodge , a cultural forum.harvnb|Kratoska|2002|p=173-175] Arriving in Thailand, Puri was appointed a professor at theChulalongkorn University , lecturing in ancient Indian and Thai languages, and is said to have mastered theThai Language in six months and went on to translate a number of Indian philosophical works and biographies, including theRamayana and biographies ofGandhi to Thai.His literary work eventually was more than twenty volumes.At the onset of
World War II in1939 , Puri also came to form theIndian National Council that, along withGiani Pritam Singh 'sIndian Independence League , was instrumental in stimulating the evolving Japanese interest in supporting armed Indian resistance for theIndian freedom movement . Singh and Puri were amongst the first people to negotiate withFujiwara Iwaichi and theF Kikan regarding Japanese policies in an effort to obtain a commitment about the support of the movement that ultimately saw the foundation of theIndian Independence League and theIndian National Army . [ [http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/Netaji/indiannationalarmy.htm Indian National Army in East Asia. Hindustan Times] ] Both Puri and Pritam Singh were among the Indian delegates killed in a plane crash en route to theTokyo conference in March 1942. The Swami Satyananda Puri foundation was established by theThai-Bharat Cultural Lodge in1942 in his honour. The SSPF library today is a reference library that houses many old and rare Indian texts. The foundation is also involved in promoting work on Indian culture, especially on theRamayana .References
[http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/Netaji/indiannationalarmy.htm Indian National Army in East Asia. Hindustan Times]
* Harvard reference
Surname1 = Kratoska
Given1 = Paul H
Year = 2002
Title = Southeast Asian Minorities in the Wartime Japanese Empire.
URL =
Publisher = Routledge.
ISBN = 070071488X.
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