Jail Diary of Bhagat Singh
By Bhagat Singh
2014
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A portrait of man with an acute scholarly mind and a cheerful socialist heart.Between the years 1929 in September till March 1931 when he was sent to the gallowsa day before his actual hanging date, Bhagat Singh wrote extensively. He maintained adiary which was full of notes of daily usage, his own thoughts on freedom, poverty andclass struggle and thoughts of varied political thinkers and intellectuals like Lenin, Marx,Ummar Khayyam, Morozov, Rabindranath Tagore, Trotsky, Bertrand Russell, Dostoevsky,Wordsworth, Ghalib and many others.Through the pages of his jail diary, a real Bhagat Singh emerges—one who is withoutthe hat or a gun, one who had an acute scholarly mind and a robust socialist persona.
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Bhagat Singh was an Indian socialist considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. He is often referred to as "Shaheed Bhagat Singh", the word "Shaheed" meaning "martyr" in a number of South Asian and Middle Eastern languages. Born into a Sikh family which had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities against the British Raj, as a teenager Singh studied European revolutionary movements and was attracted to anarchist and Marxist ideologies. He became involved in numerous revolutionary organisations, and quickly rose through the ranks of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) to become one of its main leaders, eventually changing its name to the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) in 1928.
