The crack that had appeared in the Congress in 1905 had widened during the period Lalaji languished in Mandlay jail. The hardliners and the softliners in the party had hardened their stands. The hardline group was led by Tilak, Vipin Chandra Pal, Lalaji and Arvind Ghosh. It stood for throwing a direct challenge to the […]
Amid the state of unrest, the Punjab administration introduced Punjab Canal Settlement Bill and Land Transfer Bylaw in the year 1907 which greatly harmed the interests of the farmers. It was totally unjustified. The farmers were already in very bad economic state and sad. The farmers of Rawalpindi and Layalpur were agitated. In the wheat
In 1905, the Congress decided to take advantage of the British Parliamentary elections that were going to be held in the early half of the year. It was to send a delegation to England to take up the issue of the ‘Self Rule’ for India with the parliamentary candidates to make it an election issue.Mr.
The Congress party had come into existence only in 1885, just one year before he fought the municipal elections.In 1888, a prominent Congress leader, Ali Mohammad Bhimji visited Punjab as the representative of the party to feel the political waters of that area. The letters to Sir Sayyed Ahmad had made Lala Lajpat Rai a
In the beginning, Sir Sayyed Ahmad was a nationalist leader. Among the muslims and the educated people of other faiths he commanded a great respect. His popularity was immense.He was an authority on Islam and propagated liberal and tolerant kind of the religion. There was no place for narrow communalism in his Islam. He thought
Lajpat Rai knew the importance of the education. All the blind faiths in the Indian society were the direct results of ignorance bred by centuries of illiteracy. So, the education was the key and the most potent weapon against the social evils born out of ignorance. Hence, for every reformist the spread of education was
Lajpat Rai had started pleading cases right after he did his pleadership course in 1882. He worked in and around Jagraon.As a pleader he was making about Rs. 200/- a month which was not bad in the prevailing conditions around. His father was not earning even that much money after putting in so many years
During this period of studying for various courses, his allegiance to the reformist ‘Arya Samaj’ movement continued. He was too deeply committed to its ideals. During his Lahore education period he drew closer to Arya Samaj. He even considered the founder of it, Swami Dayananda Saraswati as his spiritual father.Many other reformist movements were also
Lajpat Rai arrived in Lahore with small amount of money in his pocket. The Government Arts College took him in as its student. He made concerted effort to stretch the money he had to go the longest distance possible. He ate to survive only. There were numerous meals he had to miss.He studied hard, so
When Lajpat appeared for his sixth class exams as a 13 year old, another kind of examination was forced on him in the form of early marriage. He didn’t want to marry. But the family pooh-poohed his protests and married him off to a child girl of Sirsa of a family of wealth. For Lajpat
Education during that period was not systematised and bound to strict procedures. The rich preferred to give their children primary education at home. A student needed to take a customary test to join any class sub-matriculation. The rules were very lax and the headmasters or the principals had many privileges and powers.So, master Radhakrishan also
In 1857, British rulers of India were able to brutally crush the first freedom struggle of India which for them was armed mutiny. The people were sad and demoralised.Birth and Early YearsOnly eight years later, a woman named Gulab Devi gave birth to a male child on 18th January, 1865 in Dodigram village of Ferozepur