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Amir Chand and
Avadh Bihari.
8 May 1915 is the martyrdom day of Amir Chand and Avadh Bihari.
The two freedom fighters, both students of St Stephen’s College Delhi, were hanged by the British, for allegedly being part of a conspiracy to kill the Viceroy, Lord Hardinge.
The failed assassination attempt took place on 23 December 1912, in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk. Lord Hardinge was in a ceremonial procession, riding on an elephant, to mark the transfer of the capital from Calcutta to New Delhi. Revolutionary nationalist leader Rash Behari Bose is believed to be the leader of the plot. At that time, Bose was working as a head clerk in the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun.
After the attempt failed, Bose returned to Dehradun by the night train, and joined the office the next day as though nothing had happened. Later Bose was part of organising the Gadar Mutiny, but he managed to evade the British intelligence and reached Japan in 1915.
In 1942, he established the Indian Independence League. Later, the Azad Hind Fauj / Indian National Army ( INA) became the military arm of the League under Nethaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
(adapted from an article by Suhash Borker).
– Joy Kallivayalil.
