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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Bhagat Ram Talwar<br />
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| relatives = Gurdas Mal Talwar (father; died 4 July, 1931), Mathura Devi Talwar (mother), Hari Kishan Talwar (elder brother)<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| known_for = Active role in India's freedom struggle<br />
| spouse = Ram Kaur<br />
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'''Bhagat Ram Talwar''' (1908-1983) played an active role in [[India's freedom struggle]], and was most known for his role as the friend and comrade of Netaji [[Subhas Chandra Bose]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mid-day.com/smd/2004/aug/90031.htm|accessdate=11 September 2012|title=A footnote in history<br />
|publisher=Mid-day}}</ref> Talwar helped Bose escape from house arrest in January, 1941. They made the dangerous journey from Calcutta to Kabul and Netaji eventually made it to Germany. Unknown to Bose, Talwar was a spy for at least four countries, namely, Germany, Japan, [[USSR]], Italy and British-ruled India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/netaji/purabi2.htm|title=The Enigma of Subhas Chandra Bose|accessdate=11 September 2012|publisher=Hindustan Times|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430041947/http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/netaji/purabi2.htm|archivedate=30 April 2013}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/the-spy-who-came-from-the-cold/|title=The Spy Who Came From the Cold|last=Tharakan|first=Hormis|date=2017-05-31|website=Open The Magazine|language=en-GB|url-status=live|access-date=2019-11-28}}</ref> Also known by the alias ''Silver'', he was a freedom fighter and a peasant leader from the [[North-West Frontier Province]] in present-day Pakistan, and thus identified himself as a "Hindu [[Pashtuns|Pathan]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://qz.com/india/948392/why-did-winston-churchill-hate-the-hindus-and-prefer-the-muslims/|title=Why did Winston Churchill hate the Hindus and prefer the Muslims?|work=Quartz India|first=Mihir|last=Bose|date=4 April 2017|accessdate=29 April 2020}}</ref> He was of [[Punjabi Hindus|Punjabi]] descent.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/SI6fMdzWdZCljhosiArPAK/Silver-The-man-who-betrayed-Subhas-Chandra-Bose.html|title=Silver: The man who betrayed Subhas Chandra Bose|work=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]]|date=27 May 2017|accessdate=2 June 2020|first=Manu S.|last=Pillai|authorlink=Manu S. Pillai|quote=It was, in fact, on the edge of this landscape, near Peshawar, that our morally agnostic protagonist was born in 1908, into a family of Punjabi descent.|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603092747/https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/SI6fMdzWdZCljhosiArPAK/Silver-The-man-who-betrayed-Subhas-Chandra-Bose.html|archivedate=3 June 2017}}</ref> He was an agent and prominent figure of the [[Kirti Kisan Party]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Talwars of Pathan Land and Subhash Chandra's Great Escape|last=Talwar|first=Bhagat Ram|publisher=People's Publishing House|year=1976}}</ref><br />
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Bhagat Ram Talwar's older brother, Hari Kishan Talwar (born 1904), was sentenced and hanged on 9 June, 1931 by the British for his assassination attempt on the British Governor of Punjab, [[Geoffrey Fitzhervey de Montmorency|Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/the-lost-letter/article5818600.ece|title=The Lost Letter|last=Lal|first=Chaman|date=22 March 2014|access-date=28 December 2016|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref><br />
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[[Mihir Bose]] wrote a book on Bhagat titled "The Indian Spy: The True Story of the Most Remarkable Secret Agent of World War II" published by [[Aleph Book Company|Aleph]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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