Keshab Chakravarthy

Keshab Chakravarthy (Keshab Chakravarty) was an Indian freedom fighter and one of the youth involved in the Kakori train robbery.[1]

Freedom struggle and Kakori Train Robbery

Also see Kakori Train Robbery

Keshab was a prominent Indian revolutionary belonging to Hindustan Republican Association (HRA, became the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association or HSRA in 1928) that was created to carry out revolutionary activities against the British Empire in India.[2]

Keshab was a part of a group of young freedom fighters, along with Chandrashekhar Azad, Ashfaqullah Khan and Ram Prasad Bismil. To fund their need to buy guns for the revolution, they decided to rob the money belonging to the erstwhile British Indian government and transported by the guards compartment in trains.[3]

On 9 August 1925, a group of 10 of them, including Keshab robbed a train at the railway station of Kakori, Uttar Pradesh.[4] Though they escaped, they were arrested after an 18 month police investigation involving a total of 40 arrests followed by a mock colonial British trial.[5]

Life imprisonment

In 1928, during the Kakori trial, the Court under the British rule gave its judgment. Ramaprasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Rajendra Lahiri and Roshan Singh were to be put to death; the others including Keshab Chakravarthy were given life imprisonment.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Azad (Tewari), Chandrashekhar (1925). Kakori ke veeron se parichay. Banaras.
  2. ↑ Shrikrishan Saral (1999). Indian revolutionaries: a comprehensive study, 1757-1961. Ocean Books. pp. 103–. ISBN 978-81-87100-19-5.
  3. ↑ The Revolutionary. UP, India. 1925. Retrieved 7 January 2015. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
  4. ↑ "Kakori Train Robbery December 19, 1927 : the Story of Real Freedom Fighters". http://www.ibtl.in. IBTL. Retrieved 7 January 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  5. ↑ Rana, Bhawan Singh (2004). Chandra Shekhar Azad (An Immortal Revolutionary of India) (1st ed.). New Delhi, India: Diamond Pocket Books. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
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