In 1922 there was a violent outrage at Chauri Chaura, a village in Uttar Pradesh. Rabindranath Tagore renounced the Knighthood as a protest. The Jallianwalabagh massacre shocked the entire nation. The anti-Rowlatt Act agitation brought Gandhiji to the fore of the National Freedom Movement with a new technique. An intense agitation against this legislation rocked the entire country. The bills were designed to restrict the liberties of the people of India. The full report of the Rowlatt Committee was published on Januand the bills were introduced in the Supreme Legislative Council by William Vincent on February 6 of the same year. The year 1919 was an eventful one in the history of India's freedom movement. His poems also had started appearing into different literary journals. Nazrul's first novel titled Bandhan-Hara (Free from Bonds) had started appearing from the first issue of the Moslem Bharat. After the Regiment was disbanded, he came back to Calcutta and was lodged with Muzaffar Ahmed on the first floor of a house at 32, College Street where the offices of the Moslem Bharat and Musalman Sahitya Samiti were situated. Earlier he had visited Calcutta and Churulia, his village home.

At the end of the First World War, the Bengali Regiment was demolished in 1920. He was immediately despatched to Naushera (North-West Frontier) and then to Karachi along with his regiment. In 1917 he left his studies and enlisted himself in the regiment called 'Double Company'. But he could not complete his primary education although he got an opportunity to continue his study at a high school at Mathrun where Kumudranjan Mullick, a noted poet, was its head master. He passed his lower primary examination at the age of ten. He learnt Persian and Arabic from Maulavi Kazi Fazle Ahmed.

Nazrul had his primary education at a Madrasa. He was by nature and conviction a people's poet and believed all through his literary career that 'art is for the people'. He is eminent both as a writer and musician- a rare combination not to be found in any celebrity of his age other than, of course, Rabindranath himself. Kazi Nazrul Islam, better known as the rebel Bengali poet, is considered as the second poet of the Rabindra period, at least in its later phase.

Vridhori poem by kazi nurzul islam