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- At the age of 15, he was arrested for participating in Gandhi’s movement and when asked for his name in the jail he promptly replied ‘Azad’ (the free). It is believed that since then he came to be known as Chandrashekhar Azad. But it was Gandhi’s suspension of the non-cooperation movement that prompted Azad to aggressively pursue his cause.
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He was involved in the Kakori Train Robbery of 1925, the shooting of John P. Saunders at Lahore in 1928 to avenge the killing of Lala Lajpat Rai, and at last, in the attempt to blow up the Viceroy of India's train in 1929. Azad got to read Karl Marx 's Manifesto of the Communist Party from his comrade Shiv Verma.
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- Chandra Shekhar Azad was popularly known as Azad.
- His mother wanted him to study and become a great Sanskrit scholar.
- The massacre of the Jallianwala Bagh which took place in 1919 was when he decided to join the Non-Cooperation movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920.
- Azad was only 15 years old when he was arrested for the first time for joining Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement.
- Chandrashekhar Azad
- Kakori Case
- February 27, 1931
The youngster who took the cane blows, was born Chandrashekar Sitaram Tiwari, on July 23, 1906 in the village of Bhabara, now located in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh. His father, Pandit Sita Ram Tiwari, hailed from the Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh and got a small job as a clerk in the forest department. Located in the midst of thick jung...
Faced with a funds crunch, HRA decided that the only way out now was to loot Government money.The location was Kakori, a small railway station near Lucknow, through which a train carrying the treasury money would pass. The idea to rob the train was conceived by Ram Prasad Bismil, who saw the security loop holes. On 10th August, 1925 the revolutiona...
Azad was sitting with his friend at Albert Park in Allahabad, planning his next course of action. However, an associate of Azad had turned informer and the police came to know of his whereabouts. Arriving with 80 sepoys, the police surrounded Azad and soon a gunfight broke out. One man against the whole police force, still Azad refused to surrender...
6 days ago · When apprehended by the police at age 15 while participating in Mohandas K. Gandhi’s noncooperation movement (1920–22) at Banares (now Varanasi), he gave his name as Azad (Urdu: “Free” or “Liberated”) and his address as “prison.” Although because of his age he was not imprisoned, he was given a severe flogging by the police.
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Feb 27, 2018 · Shaken by the incident, the colonial authorities arrested more than two dozen HRA members within a month of the attack. During the famous trial that followed, four of the revolutionaries were hanged, four were sent to the Andamans for life, and 17 were sentenced to long prison terms.
Police Superintendent James Scott ordered lathi strike to thwart the advancement of the march. Lalaji was severely injured in the process and died on November 17, 1928 as a result of the wounds. Azad and his peers held the police superintendent responsible for Lala’s death and they vowed to extract revenge.
INTERESTING FACTS. 1. Chandrasekhar Azad was born as Chandrasekhar Tiwari. During the Non-cooperation Movement, 15-year-old Chandrasekhar was arrested. When produced before a magistrate and asked...
