debadatt2003
★★★★★5.0Wrote on 28 Nov 2022
Lovely Netaji Memorial in a wonderful setting
This is a very well maintained house ( owned by Shri Sarat Chandra Bose), which has now been turned into a small Museum. Located apposite the Giddapahar viewpoint, approx 15 mins drive from the Kurseong town centre, this landmark, set in the lap of nature is usually covered as part of the Kurseong local sight seeing tours. This houses multiple photographs of the Bose family as well as a few letters and other interesting artifacts of Netaji. Definitely worth a visit in fond remembrance of our forgotten Hero. Entry is free.
MrNoNameIND
★★★★4.0Wrote on 22 Sept 2021
Visit , if you got time to spare
Small Town . Has few locations to visit and hence this became a important spot for local tourism. Must Visit if you are a history buff . Can be skipped , if you are not!
samisekharc
★★★3.0Wrote on 30 Jan 2021
Memories of Bose family in Kurseong.
This is located near the Giddhapahar view point. The road towards the main entrance is quite steep. So elderly people with knee problem would find it difficult to negotiate. There are many photographs about Netaji and furnitures used by the family.
sumonm651
★★★★4.0Wrote on 28 Dec 2019
Well maintained and provides a nice piece of history
The house of the often forgotten hero is a lovely setting in Kurseong. A wooden house with very well maintained rooms, furnitures and artifacts. Scrolling through the displays transports you back to a different time.. Surely worth a visit if you are in Kurseong
ajapetrus
★★★★4.0Wrote on 27 Sept 2019
A Memorial Museum of Sarat Chandra Bose and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
Netaji Museum and the Centre for Studies in Himalayan Languages, Society and Culture, housed in the majestic bungalow at Giddhapahar on the Hill Cart Road, is about three and a half kilometres southeast of the Kurseong DHR station. For historians and academicians, in general, as well as to those interested in the glorious memories of Indian independence, it is a ‘must-visit’ memorial. Sarat Chandra Bose is said to have purchased this historic bungalow from one Mr. Rowley Lascelles Ward in the year 1922. Between 1933 and 1935 Sarat Chandra Bose has been interned in this house for two years and later, after his release from the prison in 1945 also, Sarat Chandra and his family are reported to have stayed in this house. Even in the 1950s Bibhabati Devi, wife of Sarat Chandra, had spent her holidays in Giddapahar along with her family members until about 1954. Thereafter, for more than three decades the house is claimed to have remained unused, neglected and unattended. A couple of weeks before his death in 1925 Deshbandhu Chittranjan Das, along with his wife Basanti Devi, had spent a day with Sarat Chandra Bose in this house. Netaji himself has been interned in Giddhapahar for seven months in 1936 and has again lived a few days in this house in October 1937. An interesting aspect of his stay at Giddhapahar was his correspondence with Rabindranath Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru on the controversy that had then developed over the song, Vande Mataram. Out of the twenty-six letters that Subhas Chandra Bose had written from Giddhapahar in 1936, eleven have been to Emilie Schenkl. The Government of West Bengal has restored and renovated this mansion and handed it over to the Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata. The present Netaji Museum and Centre for Studies in Himalayan Languages, Society and Culture is functioning here since 23rd April 2000. The 4-room museum was designed and developed by the Indian Museum, Kolkata, and its picture galleries are made available to the public since 20th May, 2005. The first room contains visual glimpses of Giddapahar, its surroundings, local inhabitants and the DHR of olden days, in addition to selections from the album of the Bose family at Giddapahar during the 1930s and also of Emilie with Subhas. Another room showcases the role of Bose brothers in the Freedom Struggle, highlighting the Haripura Congress and the correspondences of Subhas with Rabindranath Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru. The next one is concerned with the Indian National Army and the role of the Darjeeling Hill people in the Indian National Movement. In the fourth room, the personal belongings of the Bose family used at Giddapahar are displayed.
