Author: D.N. Gupta
Translator(s)/ Edito: D.N. Gupta
Publisher: National Book Trust
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 152
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788123749406
Description
Bhagat Singh was not only a great patriot and revolutionary socialist,
but also one of India’s early Marxist thinkers and ideologues. A
voracious reader right from his boyhood, he brought upon his thinking
and writings the tremendous influence of his varied reading.
His several statements before courts, his passionate letters to his father and other comrades, his insights on revolution and communalism and his atheistic faith, all reveal a mind that is at once original and mature in understanding.
Contents
Forword
Introduction’
SPEECHES & WITINGS:
Blood Sprinkled on the Day of Holi:
Babbar Akalis on the Crucifix
Beware, Ye Bureaucracy: Notice of Hindustan
Socialist Republican association (Army)
To Make the Deaf Hear: Notice of Hindustan
Socialist Republican association (Army)
On the slogan of Long Live revolution
Statement in the Sessions Court
(Read out by Mr. Asaf Ali)
On the LCC Ordinance (Appointment of the
Special Tribunal)
Statement before the High Court
Reasons for Boycott of the Court Proceedings
Message to Punjab students Conference
Message to Young Political Workers
Why I Am an Atheist
Introduction to ‘Dreamland’
LETTERS:
Letter to Father
Letter to I.G. (Prisons), Punjab: On the Demand for a
Better Treatment for Political Prisoners
Letter to Home Member, Government of India: on
Hunger Strikers’ Demands for a Better Treatment
Letter to the Home Member, Government of India:
Hunger Strikers’ Demands Reiterated
Letter to Punjab Governor: "No Hanging,
Please Shoot Us"
Letter to Batukeshwar Dutt: Advice to Those Comrades
Who had Escaped Capital Punishment?
Letter to Convicts of the Second Lahore Conspiracy Case
Letter to Sukhdev Contemplating suicide
Letter to Father
Appendices:
1. Manifesto of the Hindustan Republican
Association
2. Constitution of the Hindustan Republican
Association
3. Manifesto of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, Punjab
4. Manifesto of the Hindustan Socialist
Republican Association (Army)
5. Philosophy of the Bomb