Madan Lal Dhingra Biography - Birth date, Achievements, Career, Family, Awards

Madan Lal Dhingra was born on 18 February 1883 in Amritsar (India). His father's name was Geeta Mal Dhingra. His father was a civil surgeon and was completely dyed in English. He was the sixth of seven children of his parents. He also had a sister.

Madan Lal Dhingra died on 17 August 1909 (aged 25 years) in London, England, United Kingdom, hanging in Pentonville Jail.

Madan Lal Dhingra studied at MB Intermediate College Amritsar till 1900. He then moved to Lahore to study at Government College University. Here, he was influenced by the radical nationalist movement that was demanding home rule rather than freedom at the time. In 1906, he went to England to pursue higher education, where he took admission in mechanical engineering at University College London. Where his elder brother paid his expenses.

Madan Lal was particularly troubled by India's poverty. He studied the literature in detail about the causes of Indian poverty and famine and realized that the key issues to address these problems are Swaraj (self-governance) and Swadeshi. He found that the industrial and finance policies of the colonial government were made in favor of suppressing local industry and procuring British imports, which he felt was a major reason for the lack of economic development in India. Dhingra particularly adopted the Swadeshi movement, which was about encouraging Indian industry and entrepreneurship while boycotting British (and other foreign) goods. This was the first political murder committed by an Indian in Britain by Madan Lal.

He gave the slogan - "The worship of the country is the worship of Rama." In 1904, as a student in the Master of Arts program, Dhingra led a student protest against the order of the principal, a college blazer made of cloth imported from Britain. He was expelled from the college for this. Thus, after his expulsion, Dhingra worked as a clerk at Kalka at the bottom of the Shimla hills, in a firm that ran tonga carriages to take British families to Shimla for the summer months. After being sacked for the rebellion, he worked as a factory laborer. Here, he attempted to organize a union, but was sacked for trying. He moved to Bombay and worked in lower level jobs there for some time.

By now, his family was seriously worried about him. On the evening of 1 July 1909, Dhingra, along with a large number of Indians and British gathered to attend the annual "At Home" ceremony organized by the Indian National Association at the Imperial Institute. Had happened.

His memorial is right in front of the railway station in Ajmer. In the film Veer Savarkar, actor Pankaj Berry portrayed Madan Lal Dhingra.