Indian revolutionary (1907–1931)
Indian anti-colonial revolutionary who botched a 1928 police killing, bombed the Central Legislative Assembly, then starved himself in jail—turning a regional agitator into a national martyr after his execution at 23.
Bhagat Singh was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was intended to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. He later took part in a largely symbolic bombing of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and a hunger strike in jail, which—on the back of sympathetic coverage in Indian-owned newspapers—turned him into a household name in the Punjab region, and, after his execution at age 23, a martyr and folk hero in Northern India. Borrowing ideas from Bolshevism and anarchism, th…
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