Hemchandra Das Kanungo was born on 4 August 1871. He was an Indian nationalist and a member of the Anushulan Samiti.
Kanungo’s knowledge was disseminated throughout Indian nationalist organizations in the Raj and abroad. In 1908, Kanungo was one of the principal co-accused with Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore Bomb Case (1908–09). He was sentenced to transportation for life in the Andamans but was released in 1921.
Hemchandra returned from Europe with a trunk full of up-to-date technical literature, the most important item of which was a seventy-page manual on bomb-making, translated from Russian. Hemchandra had not intended to join forces with Barindra, but after a talk with Sri Aurobindo, agreed to cooperate.
