{"id":51014,"date":"2025-08-11T19:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=51014"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:18:40","slug":"100th-anniversary-of-kakori-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/11-08-2025\/100th-anniversary-of-kakori-incident","title":{"rendered":"100th Anniversary of Kakori Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS1\/Modern History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Kakori Train Action was carried out by <strong>members of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA)<\/strong> on 9 August 1925 near Kakori, a village in present-day Uttar Pradesh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Kakori Incident<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Background: <\/strong>HRA was founded in <strong>1924 <\/strong>by Ram Prasad Bismil, Sachindra Nath Sanyal, and others, aimed to <strong>overthrow British colonial rule through armed revolution.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It <strong>needed funds<\/strong> for revolutionary activities, therefore decided to target government money being transported by train.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The<strong> Revolutionaries include <\/strong>Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan, Thakur Roshan Singh, Rajendranath Lahiri and Sachindranath Sanyal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 1927, Ram Prasad &#8216;Bismil&#8217;, Ashfaqulla Khan and Thakur Roshan Singh were hanged to death by the British government for their involvement in the incident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Significance of the Kakori Incident<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Symbol of Revolutionary Sacrifice: <\/strong>The executions inspired a generation of young Indians.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Unity Beyond Religion: <\/strong>The friendship between Bismil and Ashfaqullah became a symbol of Hindu\u2013Muslim unity in the freedom struggle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Strategic Shift: <\/strong>Post-Kakori, revolutionaries moved from armed robberies to more targeted political actions (e.g., Assembly Bombing, 1929).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>British Fear of Underground Networks: <\/strong>Intensified surveillance and intelligence gathering by colonial authorities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fff2cc\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>About Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (1928)<\/strong><br>&#8211; <strong>Founded: <\/strong>Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, 1928.<br>&#8211; <strong>Key Leaders:<\/strong> Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Shiv Verma, Chandrashekhar Azad, Vijay Kumar Sinha.<br>&#8211; <strong>Core Principle:<\/strong> Building a Socialist Republic of India; combining political liberation with socio-economic transformation.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/pm-modi-pays-tribute-to-kakori-heroes-on-100th-anniversary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AIR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h3>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">The Kakori Train Action was carried out by members of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) on 9 August 1925 near Kakori, a village in present-day Uttar Pradesh.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><strong>About Kakori Incident<\/strong><\/h3>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Background: HRA was founded in 1924 by Ram Prasad Bismil, Sachindra Nath Sanyal, and others, aimed to overthrow British colonial rule through armed revolution.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">It needed funds for revolutionary activities, therefore decided to target government money being transported by train.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">The Revolutionaries include Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan, Thakur Roshan Singh, Rajendranath Lahiri and Sachindranath Sanyal.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">In 1927, Ram Prasad &#8216;Bismil&#8217;, Ashfaqulla Khan and Thakur Roshan Singh were hanged to death by the British government for their involvement in the incident.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/11-08-2025\/100th-anniversary-of-kakori-incident\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read\u00a0More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":51049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/08\/100th-anniversary-of-kakori-incident.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51030,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51014\/revisions\/51030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}