Question

'Bandi Jiwan', which served as a textbook to the revolutionary movement, was written by ______.
1. Ramprasad bismil
2. Jogesh Chatterjee
3. Sachindranath Sanyal
4. Rajendra lahiri

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Sachindranath Sanyal

• 'Bandi Jiwan', which served as a textbook to the revolutionary movement, was written by Sachindranath Sanyal.

• After the withdrawal of the Non-Cooperation Movement, the revolutionaries in northern India were the first to emerge out of the mood of frustration and reorganize under the leadership of the old veterans, Ramprasad Bismil, Jogesh Chatterjea and Sachindranath Sanyal whose Bandi Jiwan served as a textbook to the revolutionary movement.
• They met in Kanpur in October 1924 and founded the Hindustan Republican Association (or Army) to organize an armed revolution to overthrow colonial rule and establish in its place the Federal Republic of the United States of India whose basic principle would be an adult franchise.
• The HRA had also decided ‘to start labour and peasant organizations and to work for ‘an organized and armed revolution.’
• The Kakori conspiracy case, in which Ashfaqulla Khan, Ramprasad Bismil, Roshan Singh, and Rajendra Lahiri were hanged, four others were sent to the Andamans for life and seventeen others were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, was a major setback to the revolutionaries of northern India but it was not a fatal blow.
• Younger men such as Bejoy Kumar Sinha, Shiv Varma, and Jaidev Kapur in U.P.,- Bhagat Singh, Bhagwati Charan Vohra, and Sukhdev in Punjab set out to reorganize the HRA under the overall leadership of Chandrashekhar Azad. Simultaneously, they were being influenced by socialist ideas.
• Finally, nearly all the major young revolutionaries of northern India met at Ferozeshah Kotla Ground at Delhi on 9 and 10 September 1928, created a new collective leadership, adopted socialism as their official goal and changed the name of the party to the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (Army).