Barada Charan Gupta

As a Gandhian, Barada Gupta learned to use the charkha spinning wheel to make bundles of thread, which his wife Nanibala Gupta also practiced. According to his sons and daughters, when the family went shopping for Puja clothes, he insisted on khādī and he would sweep aside the imported colourful, soft, shimmering, fabrics.^{[citation needed]}

He was awarded the Rai Saheb Title from the British Government for visionary leadership and exemplary service to the nation. But Gupta declined the title and discouraged people from even mentioning him.^{[citation needed]}

Gupta was part of a movement that aimed to disprove the label of effeminacy that the British had imposed upon the Bengalis. Centres of physical training, wrestling and yoga had come up all over Bengal, with the militant Swadeshi movement often operating out of these. Gupta was part of a group that claimed that the regeneration of masculinity was critical to the spirit of anti-colonial nationalism.^[3] He also promoted youth sports. Along with his hectic work schedule which involved an average of 6 months of touring per year, he initiated and organized an annual football event, the Tarini Charan Memorial Shield, where players from adjoining states would travel to Rangpur. Tarini Charan, whose name the shield bore, had sponsored his school education when Gupta lost his father at a young age.

Gupta was a member of the Sabujpatra group.^[4][5] He wrote in the Cholitobhasha, or Standard Colloquial Bengali dialect that was showcased and promoted by Sabujpatra and which is today the standard Bengali writing style. Gupta authored the essay 'Samajik Sahitya'^[6] which appeared in Volume V, Issue 12 of Sabujpatra (1918).^[7] His contributions to the different volumes of Sabujpatra and some new prose was collected and published as Shashwata Tarun, to which Pramatha Chowdhury wrote the Introduction and Rabindranath Tagore the foreword. Gupta authored a second book which is preserved in its manuscript form.^{[citation needed]}

Barada Charan Gupta died on 20 December 1955, at the early age of 62 due to a sudden cardiac failure while taking his regular early morning walk.^{[citation needed]}