{"id":89344,"date":"2019-11-23T15:35:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T10:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11846"},"modified":"2019-11-23T15:35:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T10:05:16","slug":"last-nails-in-the-coffin-of-british-rule-remembering-lala-lajpat-rai-on-his-death-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/last-nails-in-the-coffin-of-british-rule-remembering-lala-lajpat-rai-on-his-death-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Last nails in the coffin of British rule\u2019: Remembering Lala Lajpat Rai on his death anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently,November 17 was observed as the death anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai,the firebrand Indian nationalist leader affectionately called \u2018Punjab Kesari\u2019.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Lala Lajpat Rai:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lala Lajpat Rai was born at Dhudike near Ludhiana in Punjab in 1865.He studied law at the Government College, Lahore.<\/li><li>Early in life,he became a follower of Dayanand Saraswati,the founder of the Arya Samaj and went on to become one of the society\u2019s leaders.<\/li><li>In 1885, he established the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic School in Lahore and remained a committed educationist throughout his life.He also helped in the founding of the Punjab National Bank.<\/li><li>In 1881,he joined the Indian National Congress.Further,Rai, Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal (called Lal-Bal-Pal) advocated the use of Swadeshi goods and mass agitation in the aftermath of the controversial Partition of Bengal in 1905 by Lord Curzon.<\/li><li>In 1917,he founded the Indian Home Rule League of America in New York City.<\/li><li>In 1920,he was elected President of the Indian National Congress during its Special Session in Kolkata which saw the launch of Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s Non-cooperation Movement.<\/li><li>In 1928, he opposed the Simon Commission,a British-appointed group of lawmakers arrived in India to study the implementation of the Government of India Act, 1919 (the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms).<\/li><li>He was severely lathi-charged during a protest against Simon Commission in Lahore on October 30,1928.He died a few days later.<\/li><li>He also wrote extensively in English and Urdu.His important works include (a)\u2018The Arya Samaj\u2019 (b)\u2018Young India\u2019 (c)\u2018England\u2019s Debt to India\u2019, (d)\u2018Evolution of Japan\u2019 (e)\u2018India\u2019s Will to Freedom\u2019 (f)\u2018Message of the Bhagwat Gita\u2019 (g)\u2018Political Future of India\u2019 (h)\u2018Problem of National Education in India\u2019 (I)\u2018The Depressed Glasses\u2019 and the (j)travelogue \u2018United States of America\u2019.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently,November 17 was observed as the death anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai,the firebrand Indian nationalist leader affectionately called \u2018Punjab Kesari\u2019. Facts: About Lala Lajpat Rai: Lala Lajpat Rai was born at Dhudike near Ludhiana in Punjab in 1865.He studied law at the Government College, Lahore. Early in life,he became a follower of Dayanand Saraswati,the founder&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/last-nails-in-the-coffin-of-british-rule-remembering-lala-lajpat-rai-on-his-death-anniversary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last nails in the coffin of British rule\u2019: Remembering Lala Lajpat Rai on his death anniversary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[2025],"class_list":["post-89344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-lala-lajpat-rai","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701594274},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}