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Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
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Ram Prasad Bismil
Indian revolutionary, poet & writer (1897-1927)
Ram Prasad Bismil was an Indian poet, writer, and revolutionary who fought against British Raj, participating in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, and the Kakori Conspiracy of 1925. He composed in Urdu and Hindi under pen names Ram, Agyat अज्ञात (anonymous) and Bismil (wounded),…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Roshan Singh
Indian black man (1892–1927)
Thakur Roshan Singh was an Indian revolutionary, born in the village of Nabada in Shahjahanpur district of United Provinces in a Rajput family, who was sentenced in the Bareilly shooting case during the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1921–22. After release from Bareilly Central…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Ashfaqulla Khan
Indian revolutionary (1900–1927)
Ashfaqulla Khan was a freedom fighter and martyr in the Indian independence movement against British rule and the co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Association, later to become the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
British Raj
Colonial rule in India (1858–1947)
The British Raj was the colonial rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, lasting from 1858 to 1947. It is also called Crown rule in India, or direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Kakori conspiracy
1925 train robbery in Action (now in Uttar Pradesh, India)
The Kakori Train robbery was a train robbery that took place at Kakori, a village near Lucknow, on 9 August 1925, during the Indian independence movement against the British rule in India. It was organized by the Indian revolutionaries of Hindustan Republican Association (HRA).Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)