How 1925 Kakori train dacoity led India to a revolutionary path for Independence
Independence day, an event in Uttar Pradesh's Kakori reignited the fire of violent revolution against the Britishers. A small incident of dacoity at a sleepy railway station shook the might of British empire.
The use of physical force as a form of direct confrontation with and retaliation against the British began as a concerted attempt in the last decade of the 19th century in India. The anti-Partition agitation that began in 1905 further catalyzed the growth of extremist nationalism in India.
Several revolutionary associations and organizations, both clandestine and open, sprang up in Bengal, Maharashtra, Punjab, and so on. This was also the period when the culture of the bomb was absorbed and employed by the nationalists with assistance from the revolutionaries abroad.
In the background, the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) was formed in 1924, as a radical revolutionary organization under the aegis of Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Sachindra Nath Bakshi, Sachindranath Sanyal, and Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee, who were also the primary members.
The dacoity that rocked British Empire:
Within a year of formation, on the night of August 9, 1925, the members of the revolutionary and extremists, the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA), looted a train near Kakori.
The loot was for the revolutionaries to fund their movement towards a free country. The train during the night was carrying the money to the British Treasury. The revolutionaries required the funds to support their movement. After taking
