Jail Diary

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Jail Diary presents thoughts of Bhagat Singh drawn from his last imprisonment (1929–1931), reflecting on freedom, liberty, justice, human dignity, and the meaning of revolution. The preface describes the notebook’s physical details and its custody after his execution, and highlights key quotations on political ideas, systematic societal reconstruction, and the interconnectedness of one’s concerns with mankind.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

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Pages230

Reading Time5 h 54 min

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BHAGAT SINGH Jail Diary The Original Copy of Jail Diary of Shaheed-E-Azam Bhagat Singh‘‘They may kill me, but they can not kill my ideas’’ By Yadvinder Singh Sandhu (Grandson of Shaheed Bhagat Singh) Late Shri Babar Singh Sandhu (Nephew, Shaheed Bhagat Singh and S/o Shri Kulbir Singh) “In the beloved memory of my loving father Shri Babar Singh Sandhu, It was the dream of my father to bring out the sacrifice of Shaheed Bhagat Singh through the ‘Jail Diary’ of martyr”. I wish that his sacrifice will be relived again in the heart of the people. PREFACE W henever we read of Bhagat Singh, a question always comes up—from where did he get inspiration, courage and power to do all that he did at such a young age—he was yet to be 24 when he was hanged? The present work can help us to a large extent in finding an answer to this question. This book is an assimilation of thoughts, of great philosophers, thinkers, writers and leaders, such as freedom, justice, dignity and honour drawn from various different senses by Bhagat Singh during his last imprisonment (1929-1931) in theCentral Jail, Lahore (Punjab) . Bhagat Singh wrote these pages for Indians to tell them what is freedom, what is liberty and how to snatch these noble things from the soulless and ruthless Britishers who had reduced Indians into debased anddowntrodden citizens. These ‘ Jail Diary ’ are written in a beautiful cloth-bound (red) notebook. It consists of 202 leaves (404 pages) of a little over 21 cm x 16 cm size, tied together with a long tag. Each page is stamped in black with its number atthe upper right hand corner. In order to avoid any adverse effect of weather, dust, etc., the pages have been laminated. This has, unfortunately, affected the quality of our scanning. The following entry on page 1 of the ‘notebook’shows that it was handed over to Bhagat Singh by the jail authorities on 12th September, 1929. The Jail Diary was handed over, along with other belongings of Bhagat Singh, to his father, Sardar Kishan Singh after Bhagat Singh’s execution. After Sardar Kishan Singh’s death, the notebook (along with other papers of Bhagat Singh) waspassed on to his son, Shri Kubir Singh. After his death, it has passed to his son, Shri Babar Singh. It was the dream of Shri Babar Singh that the Indian masses also get to know through this jail diary what were the actual thoughts of Bhagat Singh and general people can also seethe original writings of Bhagat Singh because he is the hero of every caste, religion, poor, rich, farmers, labourers. Bhagat Singh’s deep thinking and vision, love for mankind can be seen by his these words,“Our political parties consist of men who have but one idea, [i.e. to](i.e. to) fight against the alien rulers. That idea is quite laudable, but cannot be termed a revolutionary idea. We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruct

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