| Name(s) |
ASHFAQULLA KHAN
(Pen name: Hasrat) |
| Date of
Birth |
October 22, 1900
– Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. |
| Date of
Death |
December 19, 1927
– Faizabad (Jail), Uttar Ptradesh, India. |
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Identity |
Freedom Fighter in
the Indian Independence Movement |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1922: When Mahatma Gandhi
withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement after the Chauri
Chaura incident in 1922, so many Indian youths were left
dejected and Ashfaq was also one of them. This event
resulted into unification of the revolutionaries scattered
throughout the country.
- August 09, 1925: · On
this day, Ashfaqulla Khan and eight other revolutionaries
looted the train under the leadership of Pandit Ram Prasad
Bismil. This event came to be known as Kakori Train Robbery.
- September 26, 1925: Pandit
Ram Prasad Bismil and the other revolutionaries from
Shahjahanpur were arrested by the police but Ashfaq was the
only one untraced by the police. Ashfaq went into hiding and
moved to Bihar where he worked in an engineering company for
about ten months. But soon thereafter, Ashfaq was also
arrested.
- December 18/19/20, 1927:
After long trial for almost a year and a half he, along with
Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Thakur Roshan Singh, Rajendra Nath
Lahiri, was sentenced to death. Rajendra Lahiri attained
martyrdom on 18th of December 1927 followed by Ramaprasad
and Ashfaqullah on the 19th and Roshan Singh on the 20th.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- Both Ashfaqulla and Ram Prasad Bismil were close friends
and Urdu poets.
- Bismil was the pen name or Takhallus of Ram Prasad
whereas Ashfaq used to write poetry with the pen name of
'Hasrat'.
- Both were hanged on the same day, date and time but in
different jails (Faizabad and Gorakhpur).
- He felt that India should become free as soon as
possible and so he decided to join the revolutionaries.
- Ashfaq and Bismil had the common objective of a free and
united India.
- Bismil decided to loot the government money and utilise
it against the same government who had been continuously
looting India for more than 300 years.
- This was a beginning of the Kakori train robbery.
- The actions of Ashfaq Ullah Khan and his compatriots
have recently been depicted in an Amir Khan starrer hit
Bollywood movie Rang De Basanti, where his character role
was played by the film actor Kunal Kapoor.
- A Hindi poet Agnivesh Shukla had written a very good
poem titled Ashfaq ki aakhiri raat (last night of Ashfaq) in
which he had depicted the real sentiments of this great son
of India. The original poem has been given in Hindi
Wikipedia whereas its English translation by an Indian poet
laureate Krant M. L. Verma is reproduced hereunder along
with its original Hindi version in Devnagri script:
- "I will go empty-handed, but this woe will accompany
me; Independent my country Hindostan would ever be.
Bismil is Hindu he utters- "Time again I will come, O
Motherland! you don't worry, I will bestow you freedom."
Me too prevails but religious binding are preventing me,
Being Muslim for a rebirth may not think ever I. In case
if I got God face to face then certainly, In place of
heaven I will beg rebirth in this country."
- "जाऊँगा खाली हाथ मगर ये दर्द साथ ही जायेगा, जाने किस
दिन हिन्दोस्तान आज़ाद वतन कहलायेगा? बिस्मिल हिन्दू हैं
कहते हैं "फिर आऊँगा,फिर आऊँगा,फिर आकर के ऐ भारत माँ
तुझको आज़ाद कराऊँगा". जी करता है मैं भी कह दूँ पर मजहब
से बंध जाता हूँ,मैं मुसलमान हूँ पुनर्जन्म की बात नहीं कर
पाता हूँ; हाँ खुदा अगर मिल गया कहीं अपनी झोली फैला
दूँगा, और जन्नत के बदले उससे एक पुनर्जन्म ही माँगूंगा."
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