Durga ‘Bhabhi’ and Maulvi Liaquat to get their due at the Allahabad Museum
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₹8 crore project for ‘one of its kind’ Azad Gallery will tell the story of revolutionaries in the Indian freedom movement.
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₹8 crore project for ‘one of its kind’ Azad Gallery will tell the story of revolutionaries in the Indian freedom movement. From the spirit of the Ghadarites to the sacrifice of Durga ‘Bhabhi’, a section of historians and the political class feel that the contribution of revolutionaries to the Indian freedom movement has not been well-documented. In a bid to strike a balance, the Allahabad Museum is in the process of creating a “one of its kind” Azad Gallery, where the story of the revolutionary struggle of the Indian freedom movement would be told through artefacts and interactive displays.
Recalling secular-egalitarian ideology of Kakori martyrs amidst Hindutva onslaught By Shamsul Islam. Dated: 12/22/2020 12:10:33 AM
“Unfortunately, India’s current rulers, the mainstream academia and the media have consciously seceded from this great philosophical heritage of the Kakori martyrs. The Hindutva onslaught today is the outcome of our ignorance about the sacrifices of the Kakori martyrs and ideals for which they laid down their lives.”
On August 9, 1925 a group of Indian revolutionaries affiliated to the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) which included Chandrashekhar Azad, Ashfaqullah Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil, RajenderLahiri, Roshan Singh, Manmath Nath Gupta and others waylaid the British Government treasury loaded on a passenger train at Kakori railway station (approximately 20 kilometers from Lucknow) and captured the same.
Remembering Rajendranath Lahiri, the Revolutionary Who Threw Away His Sacred Thread
Lahiri can be seen as an embodiment of the transition that the Indian revolutionary movement was going through in the late 1920s.
Rajendranath Lahiri.
History17/Dec/2020
Among the Kakori martyrs, the names of three â Ashfaqullah Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil and Roshan Singh â are well remembered by every Indian, mainly because they were hanged on the same date: December 19, 1927. However, the name of the fourth martyr, Rajendranath Lahiri, hanged two days before on December 17, 1927, largely remains forgotten.
Lahiri can be seen as an embodiment of the transition that the Indian revolutionary movement was going through in the late 1920s. In terms of ideology, the revolutionary movement witnessed a refinement from anti-British nationalism towards socialism; in matters of religious beliefs, there was a shift towards atheism.