GUWAHATI – Twelve-year-old Tileswari Barua, the country’s youngest martyr from a remote village in Assam, who took a bullet from the colonial police and died for the country, has finally got ...

The body of Tileswari Barua, Assam’s youngest martyr who died during the Quit India movement, was never found; she was among the 17 gunned down by the police in Dhekiajuli, now a town in ...

NEW DELHI: What price did a 12-year-old boy — Tileswari Barua — from the nondescript Dhekiajuli in Sonitpur of Assam pay for the freedom of the country is not known to many, especially to ...

The body of Tileswari Barua, Assam’s youngest martyr during the 1942 Quit India Movement, was never found unlike those of the other 16 whom the police had gunned down in Dhekiajuli.

The memorial, built at a cost of approximately Rs 11.93 crore, features a statue commemorating ten martyrs, including Manbar Nath, Kumoli Devi and the youngest martyr, 12-year-old Tileswari Barua.

While many in Assam see Tileswari as a martyr “whom India forgot”, another teenage martyr of Gohpur further east is recognised as one of India’s youngest to sacrifice her life for the ...