Happened on August 9, 1925 at Kakori, a village near Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
About the Kakori Incident
- Incident: Involved the robbery of the Number 8 down-train travelling from Shahjahanpur to Lucknow of its official cash to be used for revolutionary activities against the British state.
- Key Personalities Involved: Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan, Chandrashekhar Azad, Manmathnath Gupta, Rajendra Lahiri (Revolutionaries of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA)).
- Reaction of the British Government
- Quick and Hard: Arrested a large number of revolutionaries and tried them in the Kakori Conspiracy Case (1925).
- Led to the hanging of Ashfaqulla Khan, Ramprasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Rajendra Lahiri.
- Quick and Hard: Arrested a large number of revolutionaries and tried them in the Kakori Conspiracy Case (1925).
- Aftermath of the Incident
- Caused a setback to the revolutionaries of northern India but not a fatal blow.
- Reorganisation of the HRA to Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA).
About HRA and HSRA
- HRA was formed in Kanpur in 1924 .
- Key Personalities Associated: Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Sachindra Nath Bakshi, Sachindranath Sanyal, and Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee.
- Basic Principle: Establishment of a Federal Republic of the United States of India where the basic principle would be adult suffrage.
- HSRA was formed in Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi in 1928.
- Key Personalities Associated: Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Shiv Verma, Chandra Shekhar Azad and Vijay Kumar Sinha
- Basic Principle: Goal of establishing a Socialist Republic.