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Purba Bardhaman, India
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South Damodar is a rural area south of the Damodar River, in the Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal. It consists of Khandaghosh, Raina I and Raina II community development blocks of Purba Bardhaman district. It is known as the birthplace of several stalwarts, including Indian revolutionaries like Rash Behari Bose and Batukeshwar Dutt.
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Batukeshwar Dutt (1910–1965) was a revolutionary and one of the four people associated with the 1929 Lahore bombing case, the other three were Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru. While the other three were hanged to death in 1931, Dutt was later released from the prison. He later passed away in a hospital in New Delhi in 1965.
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There are regular MEMU local trains between Bankura and Masagram and the route runs over this area.
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