Bhagat Singh, a Sandhu Jat,was born in 1907 to Kishan Singh and Vidyavati at Chak No. 105 GB, Banga village, Jaranwala Tehsil in the Lyallpur district of the Punjab Province of British India(present day Pakistan). His birth coincided with the release of his father and two uncles, Ajit Singh and Swaran Singh, from jail. His family members were Sikhs; some had been active in Indian Independence movements, others had served in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army. His ancestral village was Khatkar Kalan, near the town of Banga, India in Nawanshahr district (now renamed Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar) of the Punjab
When Jallianwalan Bagh massacre happened, Singh was only 12-year-old. The young boy reached the massacre spot and kept some blood-stained soil in a bottle. He used to worship that bottle that contained the blood of innocent lives. At a very early age Bhagat Singh made his mind about what he wanted from his life.
The famous slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad' was written by none other than Bhagat Singh during India's freedom struggle. After throwing the bomb in Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and his colleagues chanted the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad'. Till his last breath, the slogan was carried on by him.
He carried out hunger strike in jail for the pathetic condition that prevailed at that time. His hunger strike went for 116 days continuously.
He could speak 5 foreign languages fluently which include English, Arabic, Polish, French and Swedish apart from the Bharatiya languages. This shows his intellectual and intelligence skills.
The famous slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad' was written by none other than Bhagat Singh during India's freedom struggle. After throwing the bomb in Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and his colleagues chanted the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad'. Till his last breath, the slogan was carried on by him.
He carried out hunger strike in jail for the pathetic condition that prevailed at that time. His hunger strike went for 116 days continuously.
He could speak 5 foreign languages fluently which include English, Arabic, Polish, French and Swedish apart from the Bharatiya languages. This shows his intellectual and intelligence skills.
In December 1928, Bhagat Singh and an associate, Shivaram Rajguru, fatally shot a 21-year-old British police officer, John Saunders, in Lahore, British India, mistaking Saunders, who was still on probation, for the British police superintendent, James Scott, whom they had intended to assassinate. They believed Scott was responsible for the death of popular Indian nationalist leader Lala Lajpat Rai, by having ordered a lathi charge in which Rai was injured, and, two weeks after which, died of a heart attack. Saunders was felled by a single shot from Rajguru, a marksman. He was then shot several times by Singh, the postmortem report showing eight bullet wounds. Another associate of Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad, shot dead an Indian police constable, Chanan Singh, who attempted to pursue Singh and Rajguru as they fled.
After escaping, Singh and his associates, using pseudonyms, publicly owned to avenging Lajpat Rai's death, putting up prepared posters, which, however, they had altered to show Saunders as their intended target. Singh was thereafter on the run for many months, and no convictions resulted at the time. Surfacing again in April 1929, he and another associate,
After escaping, Singh and his associates, using pseudonyms, publicly owned to avenging Lajpat Rai's death, putting up prepared posters, which, however, they had altered to show Saunders as their intended target. Singh was thereafter on the run for many months, and no convictions resulted at the time. Surfacing again in April 1929, he and another associate,
Batukeshwar Dutt, exploded two improvised bombs inside the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi. They showered leaflets from the gallery on the legislators below, shouted slogans, and then allowed the authorities to arrest them. The arrest, and the resulting publicity, had the effect of bringing to light Singh's complicity in the John Saunders case.
Awaiting trial, Singh gained much public sympathy after he joined fellow defendant Jatin Das in a hunger strike, demanding better prison conditions for Indian prisoners, and ending in Das's death from starvation in September 1929. Singh was convicted and hanged in March 1931, aged 23. In prison, some of the last books he read were those written by Lenin.
Bhagat Singh became a popular folk hero after his death. In still later years, Singh, an atheist and socialist in life, won admirers in India from among a political spectrum that included both Communists and right-wing Hindu nationalists. Although many of Singh's associates, as well as many Indian anti-colonial revolutionaries, were also involved in daring acts, and were either executed or died violent deaths, few came to be lionised in popular art and literature to the same extent as Singh.
Bhagat Singh became a popular folk hero after his death. In still later years, Singh, an atheist and socialist in life, won admirers in India from among a political spectrum that included both Communists and right-wing Hindu nationalists. Although many of Singh's associates, as well as many Indian anti-colonial revolutionaries, were also involved in daring acts, and were either executed or died violent deaths, few came to be lionised in popular art and literature to the same extent as Singh.
