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While at Amritsar he was held and tortured at Amritsar's interrogation center, but released in 1975.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} | While at Amritsar he was held and tortured at Amritsar's interrogation center, but released in 1975.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} | ||
Approximately two years before his death, Mann married Paramjit Kaur, with whom he had a daughter. She was one week old when he was murdered while on his way to his village, Chinna Bagga, in Amritsar. <ref name="MannMurder">{{cite news|date=31 October 1986|title=Killing of communist leaders in Punjab makes Left parties more firm in opposing terrorism|work=India Today|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19861031-killing-of-communist-leaders-in-punjab-makes-left-parties-more-firm-in-opposing-terrorism-801383-1986-10-31|access-date=1 October 2018}}</ref><ref name="MannLetter">{{cite news | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030915/punjab1.htm | title=She wants to fight dark forces : 16-yr-old to fulfill papa’s dreams | work=Tribune News Service | date=14 September 2002 |access-date=1 October 2018}}</ref> | Approximately two years before his death, Mann married Paramjit Kaur, with whom he had a daughter. She was one week old when he was murdered while on his way to his village, Chinna Bagga, in Amritsar.<ref name="MannMurder">{{cite news|date=31 October 1986|title=Killing of communist leaders in Punjab makes Left parties more firm in opposing terrorism|work=India Today|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19861031-killing-of-communist-leaders-in-punjab-makes-left-parties-more-firm-in-opposing-terrorism-801383-1986-10-31|access-date=1 October 2018}}</ref><ref name="MannLetter">{{cite news | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030915/punjab1.htm | title=She wants to fight dark forces : 16-yr-old to fulfill papa’s dreams | work=Tribune News Service | date=14 September 2002 |access-date=1 October 2018}}</ref> | ||
==Ideals and opinions== | ==Ideals and opinions== | ||
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Baldev Singh Mann was killed while visiting his family. He had written her an emotional letter expressing his joy at becoming a proud parent and acknowledging the difficulties she would face in the social system into which she had been born. His letter expressed the duty he felt he had to perform in following his political and social beliefs. 'I am struggling for the birth of a social order in which the shackles that enslave human beings are broken to bits, where the oppressed can heave a sigh of relief.', he wrote. | Baldev Singh Mann was killed while visiting his family. He had written her an emotional letter expressing his joy at becoming a proud parent and acknowledging the difficulties she would face in the social system into which she had been born. His letter expressed the duty he felt he had to perform in following his political and social beliefs. 'I am struggling for the birth of a social order in which the shackles that enslave human beings are broken to bits, where the oppressed can heave a sigh of relief.', he wrote. | ||
He was prescient in foretelling of his own death during his struggle to help his people. He ended his letter as follows: "My darling daughter, these few words are my message to you in this moment of your birth. I hope you will accept them and try to act according to them. These few words are the foundation of your life, to build your dreams on. Your father."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sabrang.com/cc/comold/april99/ethos.htm | title=A Letter to daughter|access-date=15 June 2015}}</ref | He was prescient in foretelling of his own death during his struggle to help his people. He ended his letter as follows: "My darling daughter, these few words are my message to you in this moment of your birth. I hope you will accept them and try to act according to them. These few words are the foundation of your life, to build your dreams on. Your father."<ref name="MannLetter" /><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sabrang.com/cc/comold/april99/ethos.htm | title=A Letter to daughter|access-date=15 June 2015}}</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||