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Preface 7 Editorial Note 13

SECTION ONE: ON HIMSELF 1. An Autobiographical Note : 'Why I am an Atheist?' 21

SECTION TWO: IDEOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY 2. A Critique of the Indian Revolutionary Movement 43 3. What should a Revolutionary Party and its programme be like? : An address to the Young Political Workers 52 4. long Live Revolution' means change for the, better : Rejoinder to an Edit in the Modem Review 65 5. On Hari Kishan's Case : How not to defend Revolutionaries! 68 6. Death to Imperialism: To the Third International 73 SECTION THREE: ON FREEDOM STRUGGLE The Global Perspective 7. Anarchism (I) 77 8. Anarchism (II) 83 9. Anarchism (111) 88 10. Russian Nihilists 94

India: General 11. The Kuka Rebellion: The first battle of freedom in Punjab 103 12. The Peasant Agitation, Punjab, 1907 110 13. The Sacrifices of the BabbarAkalis 121 14. Our Young Leaders : Their thinking and World Views 128 India: The Revolutionaries 15. Sufi Amba Prasad 135 16. Khushi Ram 141 17. 143 18. Balwant Singh 151 19. Dr. Mathura Singh 160 20. Basant Kumar Biswas 166 21. The Young Ascetic: Dalip Singh 168 22. The Heroes of the Battle of Munder 171 23. The Martyrs of Kakori 175 24. The Martyrs of the Conspiracy Case 190 25. Madan Lai Dhingra 196 26. Mother of Revolutionaries: Mrs. Kshirodarashini Devi Sanyal 202 SECTION FOUR: ON NATIONAL PROBLEMS

27. Religion and National Politics 207 28. Students and Politics 212 29. Punjab: The Problem of Language and Script 215 30. Communal Problem and its Solution 227 31. The Problem of Untouchability 231 32. Universal Brotherhood : Indian Perspective 237 SECTION FIVE: THE CRY FOR FREEDOM The Delhi Bomb Case 33. 'To Make The Deaf Hear' : A Notice by the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association 245 34. Statement of Bhagat Singh and B.K. Ehitt in the Assembly Bomb Case 247 35. Statement before the Lahore High Court Bench 255 The Lahore Conspiracy Case 36. Beware Ye Bureaucracy 262 37. For the sake of Justice: Letter to the I.G. (Prisons), Punjab 264 38. Hunger Strikers' demands 265 39. Hunger-Strikers' Demands reiterated 268 40. Reasons for Refusing to Attend the Court 276 In the Court of the Special Tribunal 41. Regarding the Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance 279 42. Statement of the undefended Accused 283 43. Justice Hilton must also go 287 44. 'We claim to be shot dead': Letter to the Governor, Punjab 290 SECTION SIX: LETTERS 45. To his grandfather S.Arjun Singh 295 46. To his aunt Mrs. Hukam Kaur 295 47. To his grandfather S. Arjun Singh 296 48. To his father S.Kishan Singh 297 49. To his father S. Kishan Singh 297 50. To his father S. Kishan Singh 298 51. ToAmarChand 298 52. ToSukhdev 300 BHAGAT SINGH

53. To his father S. Kishan Singh 303 54. To Jaidev Gupta 304 55. To Promila Devi 305 56. To Jaidev Gupta 306 57. To his brother Kulbir Singh 307 58. To his brother Kulbir Singh 308 59. To Sukhdev 309 60. To B.K. Dutt 315 61. To his father S. Kishan Singh 316 62. To his brother Kulbir Singh 319 63. To his brother Kultar Singh 319 64. To the Lahore Conspiracy Case Associates 322 SECTION SEVEN: APPENDICES

1. Manifesto of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, Punjab 2. Manifesto of the Hindustan Republican Association (The Revolutionary), 1925 3. Manifesto of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association PPN: 25478450X Titel: The fragrance of freedom : writings of Bhagat Singh / ed. by K. C. Yadav; Babar Singh. - Gurgaon : Hope India Publ., 2006 ISBN: 81-7871-061-7 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund