Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh (28 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary, who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. He later took part in a largely symbolic bombing of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and a hunger strike in jail, which—on the back of sympathetic coverage in Indian-owned newspapers—turned him into a household name in the Punjab region, and after his execution at age 23 into a martyr and folk hero in Northern India. Borrowing ideas from Bolshevism and anarchism, the charismatic Singh electrified a growing militancy in India in the 1930s, and prompted urgent introspection within the Indian National Congress's nonviolent but eventually successful campaign for India's independence.In December 1928, Bhagat Singh and an associate, Shivaram Rajguru, both members of a small revolutionary group, the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (also Army, or HSRA), shot dead a 21-year-old British police officer, John Saunders, in Lahore, Punjab, in what is today Pakistan, mistaking Saunders, who was still on probation, for the British senior police superintendent, James Scott, whom they had intended to assassinate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bhagat Singh has received more than 17,744,215 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Bhagat Singh is the 68th most popular social activist (down from 59th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Social Activist.

Bhagat Singh was a revolutionary who fought for India's independence from the British Empire. He was a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association and is most famous for his involvement in the Lahore Conspiracy Case and the assassination of British police officer John Saunders.