Shaheed Madan Lal Dhingra: Freedom Fighter, a revolutionary
Madan Lal Dhingra was born on 18 September , 1883 in an affluent family of Amritsar.
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Madan Lal Dhingra was an freedom fighter, political activist and a revolutionary from Punjab. While studying in England, he assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a British official. It was hailed as one of the first acts of revolution. Dhingra was caught tried and sentenced to death on 17 August 1909.
Dhingra came into contact with noted Indian independence & political activists Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Shyamji Krishna Varma. Dhingra’s perseverance and intense patriotism impressed them and they turned his focus to the freedom struggle. Savarkar believed in revolution by any means, and supposedly gave Dhingra arms training. Also membership in a secretive society, the Abhinav Bharat Mandal. He was also a member of India House, the base for Indian student political activity in England run by Shyamji Krishna Varma.
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