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The editor’s dedication and compilation note explain the editor’s longstanding interest in Indian revolutionaries, the shift from studying actions and patriotism to studying revolutionary ideas, and the importance of physical records. 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Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh, who gave up their lives in their effort to create the India ofBhagat Singh ’s dreams  \nCONTENTS  \nA Note on Compilation and Editing Introduction  \nSection – 1  \nLetters/Telegrams  \nLetters from School Letter from College  \nLetters from Revolutionary Life  \nLetters to the Colonial Administration/Judiciary from Jail Political Letters from Jail  \nPersonal Letters from Jail Telegrams from Jail  \nSection – 2  \nPosters/Notices/Leaflets  \nSection – 3  \nCourt Statements  \nSection – 4  \nEssays, Articles and Sketches  \nEssays, Articles and Sketches in Various Journals  \nSketches of Indian Revolutionaries in Kirti, Maharathi, Pratap and Prabha  \nThirty-five Sketches from Phansi Ank of Chand  \nSection – 5  \nThe Jail Notebook  \nA Short History of the Publication of the Jail Notebook  \nA Martyr’s Notebook The Jail Notebook References  \nAppendices  \nManifestos Drafted in Consultation with Bhagat Singh Manifesto ofNaujawan Bharat Sabha  \nManifesto of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association Language-wise Details ofBhagat Singh ’s Writings  \nLife Events ofBhagat Singh Genealogy  \nOrdinance by Viceroy  \nLahore Conspiracy Case Judgement Privy Council Judgement  \nNewly Found Material  \nNotes Bibliography  \nAcknowledgments and Sources ofDocuments Photographic Inserts  \nAbout the Book  \nAbout the Author Copyright  \nA NOTE ON COMPILATION AND EDITING  \nMy interest in Bhagat Singh and other Indian revolutionaries began even before I was twenty years old. My interest was first aroused by Manmath Nath Gupta, a convicted revolutionary in the Kakori Case, who later turned into a historian of the Indian revolutionary movement during the freedom struggle and wrote the Hindi book Bharat Ke Krantikari (Revolutionaries of India) (Reference 1) . I translated the book into Punjabi in the early 70s, and from there my interest was further piqued – even though I was a student of Hindi literature and worked mainly in Hindi literature and translation, revolutionary movements and the lives of revolutionaries were always on my mind. In 1985-86, Bhagat Singh aur Unke Sathiyon ke Dastavez, co-edited by me, was published by Rajkamal Prakashan, one of Delhi’s eminent publishers. The book was an instant hit and continues tobe so even today (Reference 2) . Moroever, I narrowed my interest in India’s revolutionaries and started searching and focussing on documents of Bhagat Singh. I found Bhagat Singh to be the most organised in his thinking about the revolution and the means to achieve it. Bhagat Singh went beyond the tradition of the early revolutionaries and gave an ideological direction to the whole movement, which had been missing earlier. After a profound study of revolutionary movements from around the world, Bhagat Singh realized that the goal of the Indian revolution should be a socialist revolution, which aims at ending not just colonial rule but class rule as well.  \nBefore Bhagat Singh, the revolutionary movement was the study of the bravery, fearlessness, and patriotism of the revolutionaries. With Bhagat Singh, it took an entirely different turn and became a study of the ideas of the revolutionaries, and not just about their brave actions.  \nTo study ideas, one needs documents and physical records of their thoughtsand actions. Bhagat Singh became the first such Indian revolutionary, who like the socialist revolutionaries from around the world, would write and record his thoughts. Bhagat Singh was just sixteen when he wrote his first essay available to  \nus, apart from the few letters he had written earlier to family members. His first published essay, ‘The Problem of Language and Script in Punjab’, was published ten years later in a Hindi journal Hindi Sandesh in 1933. He wrote it for a competition and won the first prize of Rs 50, which in those days would be close to Rs 5000 of today. 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