Born: 18 September 1883
Died: 17 August 1909
Shri Madan Lal Dhingra who was an Indian revolutionary and pro-independence activist was born on 18th September 1883 in Amritsar, India. He pursued his studies from MB Intermediate College, Amritsar, and went to Lahore for his graduation at the Government College University where he became influenced by the beginning of the Nationalist Movement which was preferably about seeking Home Rule, not independence. Dhingra was chiefly concerned by the poverty of India. In literature, he studied the causes of India’s poverty and Deprivation considerably and admired that the main issues in finding solutions to the problems reside in Swaraj i.e. self-government and Swadeshi. Soon he found that the colonial government’s finance and industrial policies were favoring the purchase of British imports and were suppressing the local industry, and concluded this as a crucial reason for the lack of economic development in India. Dhingra passionately adopted the Swadeshi movement, which was to cheer up the Indian industry, entrepreneurship, and boycotting British & other foreign goods. In 1904, being a student in the MA program, he escorted a student protest in opposition to the principal’s order of the college blazers being made of imported British cloth, for which he was dismissed from the college. After rejecting his father’s advice to apologize for the college management he chose to not even go home and took upon a job as a clerk at Kalka to live on his own. He worked at low-level jobs and finally went to England to enroll in mechanical engineering. On 1st July 1909, in the evening Dhingra, along with a sizable Indians and Englishmen gathered at the Imperial Institute, where The annual ‘At Home’ function was being conducted. As the guests were leaving the event, Dhingra shot Sir Curzon-Wyllie, an India Office official, at close range. His bullets also hit Dr. Lalkaka, a Parsee doctor, who was killed, because he had come between them, and was arrested instantly by the police. During his trial, he represented himself and stated that his assassination was done in the name of a patriotic act and was revenge for the inhumane killings of Indian people by the British Government. He also stated that he had not intended to kill Carwash Lalkaka. He was found guilty and sentenced to death, and stated: “I am proud to have the honor of laying down my life for my country. But, we shall have our time in the days to come”. He was carried out at Pentonville Prison on 17 August 1909.
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Remembering the inspirational revolutionary #shrimadanlaldhingra on his Birth Anniversary.
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He was an Indian revolutionary and pro-independence activist and became influenced by the beginning of the Nationalist Movement. Dhingra was chiefly concerned by the poverty of India and adopted the Swadeshi movement, which was to cheer up the Indian industry, entrepreneurship, and boycotting British & other foreign goods. He shot Sir Curzon-Wyllie at the annual ‘At Home’ function as revenge for the inhumane killings of innocent Indians and was arrested.
