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Bhagat Singh was an Indian revolutionary who fought against British colonial rule in the early 20th century and became a celebrated figure in India's independence movement. He is remembered as a symbol of resistance and sacrifice, having been executed by the British at age 23, which made him an iconic martyr in the struggle for Indian freedom.
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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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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Singh
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- British Raj
- Place of birth
- British Raj
- Place of death
- Lahore
- Occupation
- revolutionary
- Languages spoken
- Punjabi
- Native language
- Punjabi
- Religion
- atheism
- Movement
- Indian independence movement
- Image
- Bhagat Singh 1929.jpg
- Convicted of
- murder
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- Bhagat Singh
- date of birth
- 1907-09-27
- date of death
- 1931-03-23
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- member of
- Naujawan Bharat Sabha
- name in native language
- ਭਗਤ ਸਿੰਘ
- writing language
- English language
- facial hair
- handlebar moustache
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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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