Chapter 09 · Correspondence

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Chapter 02

Early Life

Shahjahanpur, family, schooling, the Arya Samaj and the political atmosphere of the United Provinces.

Chapter 03

The Poet

Pen names, two literatures, the bibliography, and the truth about Sarfaroshi ki Tamanna.

Chapter 04

The Revolutionary

The rupture of 1922, the Hindustan Republican Association and its 1925 manifesto.

Chapter 05

Kakori

9 August 1925 — the context, the sequence, the arrests and the consequences.

Chapter 06

Trial & Final Days

The Kakori Conspiracy Case, the sentences, the appeals and Gorakhpur.

Chapter 07

Legacy

The autobiography's afterlife, Ashfaqulla Khan, the memorials and public memory.