FREEDOM FIGHTER
SHAHED BHAGAT
SINGH
PRESENTED BY:
MANHARPREET SINGH
• Bhagat Singh was born on 27 September
1907 in the village of Banga in the
Lyallpur district of the Punjab in what was
then British India and is today Pakistan.
• He was the second of seven children—
four sons, and three daughters—born to
Vidyavati and her husband Kishan Singh
Sandhu. Bhagat Singh's father and his
uncle Ajit Singh were active in progressive
politics, taking part in the
agitation around the Canal Colonization Bi
ll
in 1907, and later the Ghadar Movement
of 1914–1915
Movement: Indian Independence Movement
Favourite poet : Allama Iqbal(Muhammad Iqbal )
Organisations:
• Naujawan Bharat Sabha
• Hindustan Republican Association
• Kirti kissan party
• As a child, he was deeply affected by the
Jalianwal Bagh Massacre that took place in
Punjab in 1919. When Mahatma Gandhi
started the Non-Cooperation Movement in
1920, he became an active participant at the
age of 13. He had great hopes that Gandhi
would bring freedom in India. But he was
disappointed when Gandhi called off this
movement following the Chauri Chaura riot in
1922. At this point he had openly defied the
British and had followed Gandhi's wishes by
burning his government-school books and any
British-imported clothing.
BHAGAT TO JOIN THE
STRUGGLE AT TEEN AGE
THE EARLY SPARK
Born to a family which had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities
against the British Raj in India, Bhagat Singh, as a teenager, had studied
European revolutionary movements . He became involved in numerous
revolutionary organizations. He quickly rose in the ranks of the Hindustan
Republican Association (HRA) and became one of its leaders, converting it to the
HSRA . He was noticed by a majority people during his 63-days fast in the jail.
THE BEGINNING
• Bhagat ran from his house at an early age to avoid child
marriage
• He became a member of ‘Naujawan Bharat Sabha ‘.
• He also joined ‘Hindustan Republican Association’.
• Bhagat Singh was the secretary of the ing of various
revolutionaries from across India was called at Delhi .
…
The capture and hanging of the main HRA
Leaders also allowed him and Sukhdev to be
quickly promoted to higher ranks in the party.
When bhagat eyewitnessed Lala Lajpat Rais
death, he vowed revenge.
A act was passed by the britihish government
for the well being of their subjects against
Bhagat singh the revolutionary.But HSRA
opposed it and planned to bomb the assembly .
o SHORTLY AFTER HIS ARREST AND TRIAL FOR
THE ASSEMBLY BOMBING, THE BRITISH CAME
TO KNOW OF HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE
MURDER OF J. P. SAUNDERS. BHAGAT SINGH,
RAJGURU, AND SUKHDEV WERE CHARGED
WITH THE MURDER. BHAGAT SINGH DECIDED
TO USE THE COURT AS A TOOL TO PUBLICIZE
HIS CAUSE FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF INDIA.
It is believed that he had
knowledge of the Kakori trian
robbery.
One of the most popular ones is
that Mahatma Gandhi had an
opportunity to stop Singh's
execution but did not. A variation
on this theory is that Gandhi
actively conspired with the British
to have Singh executed. Gandhi's
FACTS
supporters say that Gandhi did not
have enough influence with the
British to stop the execution, much
less arrange it. Furthermore,
Gandhi's supporters assert that
Singh's role in the independence
movement was no threat to
Gandhi's role as its leader, and so
Gandhi would have no reason to
want him dead.
BHAGAT SINGH:-
• "The aim of life is no more to control the
mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to
achieve salvation here after, but to make the
best use of it here below; and not to realise
truth, beauty and good only in contemplation,
but also in the actual experience of daily life;
social progress depends not upon the
ennoblement of the few but on the
enrichment of democracy; universal
brotherhood can be achieved only when there
is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity
in the social, political and individual life." —
from Bhagat Singh's prison diary.
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