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#24 The Revolutionary who fought against The British Imperialism Forces : Ram Prasad Bismil.


Hey Infinities, in this article you will get to know briefly about one of the most noteworthy Indian freedom fighter who resisted British colonial forces till his last breath, he was the great Revolutionary of India - Ram Prasad Bismil on whom India is proud of.

He was born on 11th June, 1897, in a nondescript village in Uttar Pradesh Shahjahanpur district. His parents were Moolmati and Murlidhar.
His life tenure was not a long one, he only lived for 30 years, but did many great work for his country and countrymen.
He joined the Arya Samaj which was founded by Dayananda Saraswati in 1875. This had a esoteric influence on him, he often employed poetry as his weapon of choice in the fight against the imperialist forces.
The ideals of revolution first took root in his mind when he read the death sentence awarded to Bhai Parmanand, an Indian nationalist and Arya Samaj missionary.  Bismil was just 18 then and unleashed his anguish through his poem Mera Janm. His views were in austere contrast to Mahatma Gandhi's ideals of 'Ahimsa'.

Ram Prasad Bismil 

Major Cases
Bismil ji was involved in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918 in which police found a few young people including Bismil selling books that were not prescribed by the government. He published a pamphlet titled 'Deshwasiyo Ke Naam' and distributed it along with his poem 'Mainpuri Ki Pratigya'. To collect funds for the parties and they looted the government's treasury also. He jumped into the Yamuna River to escape the arrest and was successful.

Kakori Conspiracy Case
In 1925, Bismil and his companions, famous revolutionaries - Chandrashekhar Azad and Ashfaqulla Khan decided to loot a train in Kakori near Lucknow.. 
They made it in their attempt but were arrested alongside a dozen other HRA  members within a month of the Attack and tried under to the Kakori Conspiracy Case. The legal process lasted 18 months. And then an anti-nationalist decision by the British government took place when Bismil, Rajendranth Lahiri, Khan and Thakur Roshan Singh were awarded death sentences.

Ashfaqulla Khan

Thakur Roshan Singh

Rajendranath Lahiri 

Contributions
He formed organisation Matrivedi and got in touch with Genda Lal Dixit, a school teacher at Auraiya in the district of Etawah and was also a revolutionary. Both Bismil and Dixit shared revolutionary ideas and wanted to organise the youth of the country to fight against the British government. 
He was one of the chief founders of the Hindustan Republican Army(HRA) along with Sachindra Nath Sannyal and Jadugopal Mukherjee. Bismil drafted the constitution of HRA briefly (HRA was founded in 1924).

Some Facts
  • When Bismil was lodged in Gorakhpur Central Jail, he went on a hunger strike to be treated as a political priosner.
  • He attended the 1921 session of the Indian National Congress (INC) at Ahmedabad.
  • While his tenure in Lucknow Central Jail, Bismil wrote his autobiography - 'Musings from The Gallows'  which was considered as one of the finest works in Hindi literature and also penned the cult song 'Mera Rang De Basanti Chola'.
  • He immortalised the poem 'Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna' written by Bismil Azimabadi as an ode to young freedom fighters of the Indian Independence movement, he used it as a war cry during the British Raj period in India. It was first published in journal 'Sabah', published from Delhi.
  • Bismil was hanged at Gorakhpur Jail, Ashfaqulla Khan at the Faizabad Jail and Roshan Singh at Naini Central Jail, Prayagraj. Rajendranath Lahiri had been hanged two days earlier at Gonda Jail.
Death
Unfortunately, the end of his life came very earlier and he was hanged on 19th December, 1927 at Gorakhpur Jail with Jai Hind as his last words on lip. His body was taken to the Rapti River for a Hindu cremation and the site was rechristened as Raj Ghat later.

Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein hai, Dekhna ki zor kitna baazu-e-qatil mein hai. - Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil

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