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| native_name_lang = Punjabi | | native_name_lang = Punjabi | ||
| other_names = ''Shaheed-e-Azam'' | | other_names = ''Shaheed-e-Azam'' | ||
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1907|09|27}}<ref name=combined-birth-date-27-9> | | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1907|09|27}}/28<ref name=combined-birth-date-27-9> | ||
*{{Cite ODNB|id=73519|last=Deol|first=Jeevan Singh|title=Singh, Bhagat [known as Bhagat Singh Sandhu|year=2004}} | *{{Cite ODNB|id=73519|last=Deol|first=Jeevan Singh|title=Singh, Bhagat [known as Bhagat Singh Sandhu|year=2004}} | ||
*{{citation|year=2021|chapter= Bhagat Singh|title=Encyclopedia Britannica|chapter-url= https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bhagat-Singh}} | *{{citation|year=2021|chapter= Bhagat Singh|title=Encyclopedia Britannica|chapter-url= https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bhagat-Singh}} | ||
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'''Bhagat Singh''' (27 September 1907<ref name=combined-birth-date-27-9 /> – 23 March 1931) was a [[charismatic]] Indian revolutionary<ref>{{citation|last=Jeffrey|first=Craig|title=Modern India: A Very Short Introduction|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=30|year=2017|isbn=978-0-19-876934-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R3w7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30|quote=Congress was often split on the question of the extent to which all protests should be non-violent. Gandhi, though highly influential, had opponents. It is particularly important to recognize the existence of a socialist, radical wing within the nationalist movement. Historians often discuss this wing with reference to Bhagat Singh, a charismatic Indian revolutionary executed by the British with two other revolutionaries in 1931 for murdering a British police officer.}}</ref> who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer<ref name=assassination-cimbined> | '''Bhagat Singh''' (27/28 September 1907<ref name=combined-birth-date-27-9 /> – 23 March 1931) was a [[charismatic]] Indian revolutionary<ref>{{citation|last=Jeffrey|first=Craig|title=Modern India: A Very Short Introduction|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=30|year=2017|isbn=978-0-19-876934-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R3w7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30|quote=Congress was often split on the question of the extent to which all protests should be non-violent. Gandhi, though highly influential, had opponents. It is particularly important to recognize the existence of a socialist, radical wing within the nationalist movement. Historians often discuss this wing with reference to Bhagat Singh, a charismatic Indian revolutionary executed by the British with two other revolutionaries in 1931 for murdering a British police officer.}}</ref> who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer<ref name=assassination-cimbined> | ||
*{{citation|last=Raza|first=Ali|title=Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2020|isbn=978-1-108-48184-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=snzUDwAAQBAJ|pages=106–107|quote=Bhagat Singh's life epitomized the political journeys of many disaffected youths who took to revolutionary and militant activism. Involved in a (mistaken) high-profile assassination of John Saunders, ...}} | *{{citation|last=Raza|first=Ali|title=Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2020|isbn=978-1-108-48184-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=snzUDwAAQBAJ|pages=106–107|quote=Bhagat Singh's life epitomized the political journeys of many disaffected youths who took to revolutionary and militant activism. Involved in a (mistaken) high-profile assassination of John Saunders, ...}} | ||
*{{citation|last=Moffat|first=Chris|title=India's Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh|publisher =Cambridge University Press|year = 2019|pages=78–79|isbn=978-1-108-75005-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9sqCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA78|quote=One month after Lajpat Rai's death, at 4:30 pm on 17 December 1928, members of the HSRA ambushed Assistant Superintendent of Police J. P. Saunders as he was leaving the police station on Lahore's College Road. He was shot once by Shivaram Rajguru, and then again by Bhagat Singh." As the two fled through the gates of the DAV College located opposite the station, their comrade Chandrashekhar Azad fired at the pursuing officer, Constable Chanan Singh. Both Singh and Saunders died from their wounds. Amid the chaos, there was some room for farce. Saunders was not the primary target; the HSRA's Jaigopal mistook the assistant for his boss, Mr. Scott, the man who had ordered police to charge the Simon Commission protestors two months earlier. Once it was clear this was a subordinate and not Scott, the revolutionaries scrambled to amend posters prepared in advance to announce the act.}}</ref> in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist.<ref name=combined-misplaced> | *{{citation|last=Moffat|first=Chris|title=India's Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh|publisher =Cambridge University Press|year = 2019|pages=78–79|isbn=978-1-108-75005-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9sqCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA78|quote=One month after Lajpat Rai's death, at 4:30 pm on 17 December 1928, members of the HSRA ambushed Assistant Superintendent of Police J. P. Saunders as he was leaving the police station on Lahore's College Road. He was shot once by Shivaram Rajguru, and then again by Bhagat Singh." As the two fled through the gates of the DAV College located opposite the station, their comrade Chandrashekhar Azad fired at the pursuing officer, Constable Chanan Singh. Both Singh and Saunders died from their wounds. Amid the chaos, there was some room for farce. Saunders was not the primary target; the HSRA's Jaigopal mistook the assistant for his boss, Mr. Scott, the man who had ordered police to charge the Simon Commission protestors two months earlier. Once it was clear this was a subordinate and not Scott, the revolutionaries scrambled to amend posters prepared in advance to announce the act.}}</ref> in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist.<ref name=combined-misplaced> | ||