Bhagat Singh (1907–1931) was a revolutionary socialist from Punjab and a leader of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, known for the Saunders killing in 1928 and the Central Legislative Assembly bombing in 1929, who was hanged with Rajguru and Sukhdev on 23 March 1931.
Bhagat Singh grew up in a family of nationalists; his father Kishan Singh and uncle Ajit Singh were active in anti-colonial politics, and Ajit Singh had been deported for organising peasants in 1907. As a boy he was deeply affected by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919. He left school to join the Non-Cooperation Movement and studied at the National College in Lahore, founded by Lala Lajpat Rai, where he read widely on revolutions and socialism.
Gandhi's withdrawal of Non-Cooperation in 1922 disappointed many young people, and Bhagat Singh turned to revolutionary politics. He joined the Hindustan Republican Association, whose leaders, including Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla Khan, were tried in the Kakori case. In 1928, with Chandrashekhar Azad, Sukhdev and others, he reorganised it as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, adding socialism to its aims.
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