Abinash Chandra Bhattacharya
Born in Chunta in the district of Tripura, India, Bhattacharya became involved with the works of the Anushilan Samiti in his youth.[3] In 1910, Abinash Bhattacharya went to Germany to study chemistry at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he obtained his PhD.[citation needed] While in Germany, Bhattacharya again became involved in the Indian nationalist movement there, reviving old acquaintances from his Anushilan days.He was at this time close to Virendranath Chattopadhyaya and Harish-Chandra and, through his acquaintance with the Interior Minister of Prussia, became a founding member of the Berlin Committee, which during the war was involved in a number of failed plans for nationalist revolution within India and mutiny in the Indian Army.[citation needed] Bhattacharya died in Rishra in Hooghly district in West Bengal.