Revolutionary Activities:
• The first political murder of a European was
committed in 1897 at Poona by the Chapekar brothers, Damodar and Balkishan.
Their target was Mr.Rand, President of the Plague Commission, but Lt.Ayerst was
accidentally shot.
• In 1908, Khudiram Bose and Prafulla chaki threw a bomb on the carriage of
kingford, the unpopular judge of Muzaffapur. Khudiram, Kanhaiyalal Dutt and
Satyendranath Bose were hanged. (Alipur Case).
• In 1909, M L Dhingra shot dead Col.William Curzon
Whyllie, the political advisor of “India Office” in London.
• In 1912, Rasbihari Bose and Sachindra Nath Sanyal
threw a bomb at Lord Hardinge at Delhi. (Delhi Conspiracy Case).
• In Oct, 1924, a meeting of revolutionaries from
all parts of India was called at Kanpur. They setup Hindustan Socialist
Republic Association/Army (HSRA).
• They carried out a dacoity on the Kakori bound
train on the Saharanpur-Lucknow railway line on Aug. 9, 1925.
• Bhagat Singh, with his colleagues, shot dead
Saunders (Asst. S.P. of Lahore, who ordered lathi charge on Lala Lajpat Rai) on
Dec.17, 1928.
• Then Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw a
bomb in the Central Assembly on Apr 8, 1929. Thus, he, Rajguru and Sukhdev were
hanged on March. 23,1931 at Lahore Jall (Lahore Conspiracy Case) and their
bodies cremated at Hussainiwala near Ferozepur.
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• In 1929 only Jatin Das died in Lahore jail after
63 days fast to protest against horrible conditions in jail.
• Surya Sen, a revolutionary of Bengal, formed the
Indian Republic Army in Bengal. In 1930, he masterminded the raid on Chittagong
armoury. He was hanged in 1933.
• In 1931, Chandrashekhar Azad shot himself at
Alfred Park in Allahabad.