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Freedom fighter

Chandrashekhar Azad

Commander of the HSRA, never taken alive

1906—1931

23 July 1906 – 27 February 1931

Chandrashekhar Tiwari of Bhabhra took the name Azad, ‘free’, before a magistrate at fifteen and kept his vow never to be taken alive. He fell in Alfred Park, Allahabad, on 27 February 1931.

01Name: Azad

He was born at Bhabhra in the Alirajpur princely state (now Chandrashekhar Azad Nagar, Madhya Pradesh) and went to Kashi to study Sanskrit. In 1921, during Non-Cooperation, he was arrested. Before the magistrate he gave his name as Azad, his father’s as Swatantrata and his home as the jail, and was sentenced to fifteen lashes, shouting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ at each stroke. When Non-Cooperation was called off in 1922 he joined Ram Prasad Bismil’s Hindustan Republican Association and took part in the Kakori train action of 9 August 1925. Of the men tried for Kakori, he alone was never caught.

02Alfred Park

As commander-in-chief of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association from 1928 he directed its actions, covered the escape of Bhagat Singh and Rajguru after the Saunders shooting, and planned the bomb under the Viceroy’s train near Delhi on 23 December 1929. On 27 February 1931 police surrounded him in Alfred Park, Allahabad, after a tip-off. He fought from behind a tree, wounding several of them, and with his last bullet shot himself. The park is now Chandrashekhar Azad Park, and his pistol is kept in the Allahabad Museum.

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  • 27 February 1931

    Chandrashekhar Azad falls at Alfred ParkResistance

    Surrounded by police at Alfred Park in Allahabad, Azad fights alone and, keeping his vow never to be taken alive, uses his last bullet on himself. The park is now Chandrashekhar Azad Park.