Birendra Sutradhar (1937 - 19 May 1961) (Bengali: বীরেন্দ্র সূত্রধর) was an Indian carpenter who took part in the Bengali Language Movement in the Barak Valley in 1961. On 19 May 1961, while participating in a satyagraha demanding the official status for Bengali language in Barak Valley, he was shot by the paramilitary forces, dying in hospital twenty hours later, on 20 May 1961.
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1937
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19 May 1961 (aged 23)
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