Shahid e azam bhagat singh biography

Indian revolutionary (1907–1931)

This article is about the Indian socialist revolutionary. For the Indian-American civil rights activist, see Bhagat Singh Thind.

Bhagat Singh (27 September 1907^[1][b] – 23 March 1931) was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary,^[6] who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928^[7] in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist.^[8] 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.^[9] Borrowing ideas from Bolshevism and anarchism,^[10] the charismatic Bhagat Singh^[11] electrified a growing militancy in India in th