Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Socialist revolotionary | Inquilab Zindabad!
Here's a the time line of Shaheed Bhagat Singh's life:
- 1907- Bhagat Singh was born in Punjab, India (now Pakistan), on September 27, 1907, to a Sikh family deeply involved in political activities.
- 1920- By the time Bhagat Singh was 13, he was well familiar with this family’s revolutionary activities.
- 1926- Bhagat Singh founded the 'Naujavan Bharat Sabha (Youth Society of India) and joined the Hindustan Republican Association (later known as Hindustan Socialist Republican Association), where he met several prominent revolutionaries
- 1927- He was arrested for allegedly being involved in a bombing the previous October
- 1928- The British government held the Simon Commission to discuss autonomy for the Indian people. Several Indian political organizations boycotted the event because the Commission had no Indian representatives.
- 1929- Bhagat Singh and an associate bombed the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi to protest implementation of the Public Safety Bill.
- 1931- Eventually, Singh and his co-conspirators were tried and sentenced to hang. He was executed on March 23, 1931.
"We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary."
-- Shaheed Bhagat Singh