Module 2: Revolutionary Movement and Heroes of the Independence Struggle
Concept
Subtopic 2.1: Muzaffarpur, the HSRA, and Champaran
- The Muzaffarpur bomb incident of 30 April 1908 brought Bihar's revolutionary phase into view. Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki targeted the carriage of the harsh district judge Kingsford. Chaki took his own life to avoid capture. Khudiram was arrested at Pusa Road railway station in Samastipur, tried, and martyred at the age of eighteen.
- Under the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, Yogendra Shukla of Vaishali linked revolutionaries in Bihar, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Rajendra Lahiri and Sachindra Nath Bakshi visited him several times at Hajipur to plan logistics and weapons.
- Batukeshwar Dutt was born on 2 November 1910 and lived in Patna. On 8 April 1929 he and Bhagat Singh threw harmless smoke bombs and leaflets in the Central Legislative Assembly, Delhi, against the Public Safety Bill and the Trade Disputes Bill. Both surrendered. Dutt was sentenced to transportation for life in the Cellular Jail, Andaman. He died in Delhi in 1965. By his last wish he was cremated at Hussainiwala, beside Bhagat Singh's samadhi.
- Pandit Rajkumar Shukla was born in Satbarwa village in West Champaran. At the 1916 Lucknow Congress he persuaded Gandhi to visit Champaran. That visit became the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 against the European indigo planters.
- By his last wish, Batukeshwar Dutt was cremated beside Bhagat Singh's samadhi at Hussainiwala.
- Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and other revolutionaries frequently visited Yogendra Shukla at Hajipur.
- Batukeshwar Dutt lived in Patna and was sentenced to transportation for life for the 1929 Delhi Assembly bomb protest.
- Khudiram Bose was arrested at Pusa Road station in Samastipur.
- Pandit Rajkumar Shukla was born in Satbarwa village in West Champaran.
- Question: Which great revolutionary leader of Bihar was cremated beside the memorial of Bhagat Singh? Answer: Batukeshwar Dutt.
- Question: Which nationalist revolutionary leader of Bihar did Bhagat Singh visit several times in Hajipur? Answer: Yogendra Shukla.
- Question: Batukeshwar Dutt, who threw bombs in the Delhi Central Legislative Assembly with Bhagat Singh in 1929, was a resident of where? Answer: Patna, Bihar.
- Question: Where was the nationalist revolutionary Khudiram Bose arrested following the Muzaffarpur bomb incident? Answer: Pusa Road station, Samastipur.
- Question: Where was Pandit Rajkumar Shukla, associate of Gandhiji in the Champaran Satyagraha, born? Answer: Satbarwa.
MCQs
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Question 12: Which great revolutionary leader of Bihar was cremated beside the memorial of Bhagat Singh?
Question 24: Which nationalist revolutionary leader of Bihar did Bhagat Singh visit several times in Hajipur?
Question 25: Batukeshwar Dutt, who threw bombs in the Delhi Central Legislative Assembly with Bhagat Singh in 1929, was a resident of where?
Question 38: Where was the nationalist revolutionary Khudiram Bose arrested following the Muzaffarpur bomb incident?
Question 45: Where was Pandit Rajkumar Shukla, associate of Gandhiji in the Champaran Satyagraha, born?
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Which great revolutionary leader of Bihar was cremated beside the memorial of Bhagat Singh?
Batukeshwar Dutt.Which nationalist revolutionary leader of Bihar did Bhagat Singh visit several times in Hajipur?
Yogendra Shukla.Batukeshwar Dutt, who threw bombs in the Delhi Central Legislative Assembly with Bhagat Singh in 1929, was a resident of where?
Patna, Bihar.Where was the nationalist revolutionary Khudiram Bose arrested following the Muzaffarpur bomb incident?
Pusa Road station, Samastipur.Where was Pandit Rajkumar Shukla, associate of Gandhiji in the Champaran Satyagraha, born?
Satbarwa.