The British government had taken the Kakori Train Robbery as a direct challenge to it just as Ashfaq had predicted. The police and the secret police at once sprang into action. A wide dragnet was spread. Entire administration had swung into alert mood. It had become a prestige issue. The loss of treasury hurt bad. […]
Ramprasad Bismil was looking for an opportune moment and place to strike at to put the plan of robbing government money in action. It could solve the financial problem which was crippling the organisation. He was the one who was the most worried over the issue. Others were merely looking up to him as if
Soon after joining Hindustan Republican Association Ramprasad Bismil found that the organisation was facing the same old problem of the finance. It had no funds. There were great revolutionary programmes and plans to upset the apple cart of the British but no money to fund those grandiose projects. The revolutionaries needed guns, bombs and other
After getting general amnesty from the government and no more under the police harassment Bismil paid attention to his own needs. He was getting on well with the job he had and was now financially stabilising. He life was reasonable good.During this period some people contacted him and revealed that they were carrying on revolutionary
Ramprasad Bismil had come into the notice of the police in Mainpuri Conspiracy case. So, his home town Shahjahanpur was no more a safe place for him. He stayed back at Gwalior after attending the marriage of his sister.The family had some ancestral farm land there. Bismil decided to become a farmer and cultivate that
When Ramprasad had taken a pledge to work for the liberation of the country by fighting against the British he had also taken a vow to remain celibate all his life. He remained true to his vow and never even once considered starting a family or getting entangled in a love affair. He firmly believed
Ramprasad Bismil had deep respect seasoned in love for his mother. For him she was nothing short of a goddess.There was personal problem and matters Bismil found impossible to talk about with anyone. But he felt no hesitation in confiding those things to his mother. She always provided helpful guidance. More often than not his
The plan to move to Allahabad was okayed after a discussion between Ramprasad Bismil and his three close associates namely Rajaram, Devnarain and Ganga Singh. All the four went to Allahabad and put up in a Dharamshala.The four discussed the ways to reorganise the outfit and strengthen it in the room where they stayed for
After absconding from Mainpuri area Ramprasad moved towards Delhi where Congress Annual Session was scheduled to be held. From Shahjahanpur he drove for Delhi in ambulance as local member of Congress Sewa Samiti.He was carrying along his book ‘How America Win Freedom.’ A large numbers of copies of which were still with him unsold. He
When Ramprasad Bismil attended the Congress Session he happened to come across some youth who had a revolutionary bend of mind. All of them had unanimous opinion that British were responsible for the miserable state of the country and there was no hope for Indians unless the aliens were driven away. Ramprasad agreed fully with
The association of Ramprasad with Arya Samaj inevitably led to the freedom struggle. Samaj was full of the leaders who fiercely advocated political freedom from the British. Most of those leaders also belonged to the Congress, the political party that was engaging the British on the political front.Swami Somdev of Arya Samaj was instrumental in
After learning Hindi Ramprasad was admitted to a Madarsa to learn Urdu language which still held sway in the courts, lower level government offices and literature. Even the Hindi writers preferred to write in Urdu script. By the time he crossed fourth class of Madarsa he had gained good knowledge of Urdu.Urdu was a language
Pandit Ramprasad Bismil was born in 1897 in Shahjahanpur (UP) exactly forty years after the unsuccessful 1857 revolt against the British rule.The countrymen had gone through a long period of abject frustration, hopelessness and demoralisation. The people had lost self belief.The aliens had spread the canard that the Indians were worthless people who on their
The news of the dismissal of 19 Regiment sepoys reached to all the garrisons and cantonments of the company army including Meerut where 34 Infantry Regiment of Mangal Pandey was now stationed. The British did not want to keep it a secret. Infact they wanted it known to all native sepoys as a warning against
The drill officer had to report the matter to the Commanding Officer of Bahrampur, Michael, who was a strict disciplinarian. To add to it he was a racial bigot who believed in the white superiority. He looked down upon Indians and everything connected to them. He talked to Indian subordinates in a manner of a