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Bhagat Singh

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Also known as Shaheed Bhagat Singh

Indian revolutionary (1907–1931)

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Bhagat Singh was a male person from India, born on 1907-09-28 or 1907-09-27, and died on 1931-03-23. He is associated with the musical genres ghazal and ग़ज़ल.

Singh is the subject of a Commons category and has been referenced by 821 other encyclopedia articles. He has five works listed in Crossref.

A quote attributed to him states, "Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail." On Last.fm, the name Bhagat Singh has 26 listeners and a playcount of 115.

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
India
Active from
1941-02-08
Active to
2011-10-10
ghazalग़ज़ल

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
26
Total plays
115

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Quotes

  • Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.
  • One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase.
  • Compromise is an essential weapon which has to be wielded every now and then as the struggle develops. But the thing that we must keep always before us is the idea of the movement. We must always maintain a clear notion as to the aim for the achievement of which we are fighting.
  • It is there that our leaders prefer a surrender to the British than to the peasantry. Can you point out any effort to organize the peasants or the labourers? No, they will not run the risk. There they lack. That is why I say they never meant a complete revolution. Through economic and administrative pressure they hoped to get a few more reforms, a few more concessions for the Indian capitalists.
  • Revolution means action. It means a change brought about deliberately by an organized and systematic work, as opposed to sudden and unorganised or spontaneous change or breakdown.
  • Revolution is a very difficult task. It is beyond the power of any man to make a revolution. Neither can it be brought about on any appointed date. It is brought about by special environments, social and economic. The function of an organized party is to utilise an such opportunity offered by these circumstances.

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Key facts

Born
( 1907-09-27 ) 27 September 1907 , Banga , Punjab , British Raj
Died
23 March 1931 (1931-03-23) (aged 23), Lahore Central Jail , Punjab, British Raj
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Monuments
Hussainiwala National Martyrs Memorial
Other name
Shaheed-e-Azam
Organization s
Naujawan Bharat Sabha , Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
Notable work
Why I Am an Atheist
Movement
Indian independence movement
Criminal charges
Murder of John P. Saunders and Channan Singh
Criminal penalty
Death
Criminal status
Executed

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Encyclopedic overview

Bhagat Singh (27 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was intended to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. He later took part in a largely symbolic bombing of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and a hunger strike in jail, which—on the back of sympathetic coverage in Indian-owned newspapers—turned him into a household name in the Punjab region, and, after his execution at age 23, a martyr and folk hero in Northern India. Borrowing ideas from Bolshevism and anarchism, the charismatic Bhagat Singh electrified a growing militancy in India in the 1930s and prompted urgent introspection within the Indian National Congress's nonviolent, and eventually successful, campaign for India's independence.

In December 1928, Bhagat Singh and an associate, Shivaram Rajguru, both members of a small revolutionary group, the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (also Army, or HSRA), shot dead a 21-year-old British police officer, John P. Saunders, in Lahore, Punjab, in what is today Pakistan, mistaking Saunders, who was still on probation, for the British senior police superintendent, James Scott, whom they had intended to assassinate. They held Scott responsible for the death of a popular Indian nationalist leader Lala Lajpat Rai for having ordered a lathi (baton) charge in which Rai was injured and two weeks thereafter died of a heart attack. As Saunders exited a police station on a motorcycle, he was felled by a single bullet fired from across the street by Rajguru, a marksman. As he lay injured, he was shot at close range several times by Singh, the postmortem report showing eight bullet wounds. Another associate of Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad, shot dead an Indian police head constable, Channan Singh, who attempted to give chase as Singh and Rajguru fled.

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