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Martyr's Memorial on a 1967 stamp of India. During the height of Quit India Movement [3] in 1942, eminent Gandhian freedom fighter Shri Krishna Sinha and Dr. Anugrah Narain was arrested while he was trying to unfurl the national flag in Patna, as a strong reaction, a group of seven young students decided to forcefully unfurl the national flag in Patna and were mercilessly shot dead by the British.
In 2022, the government of Bihar recognised 15 February as a Martyrs' Day (Shahid Diwas) in memory of 34 freedom fighters killed by the Indian Imperial Police in Tarapur during hosting Indian Flag on 15 February 1932.
Following are the martyrs whose names are engraved on Kargil Chowk war memorial. [3]Major Chandrabhushan Divedi; General Digambar Dixit, Palamu General Prabhakar Kumar Singh, Bhagalpur
What really happened during the Mutiny: A day by day account of the major events of 1857–1859 in India, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-564182-5; Basham A. L., The Wonder that was India, Picador, 1954, ISBN 0-330-43909-X; Nambisan Vijay, Bihar in the eye of the beholder, Penguin Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0-14-029449-1
Shri Krishna Singh (Sinha) (21 October 1887 – 31 January 1961), also known as Shri Babu, was the first chief minister of the Indian state of Bihar (1946–61). Except for the period of World War II, Sinha was the chief minister of Bihar from the time of the first Congress Ministry in 1937 until his death in 1961. [1]
The Bihar Regiment is an Indian Army infantry regiment. [3] It traces its origins back to the British Indian Army . [ 4 ] The Bihar Regiment was formed in 1941 by regularising the 11th (Territorial) Battalion, the 19th Hyderabad Regiment, and raising new battalions.
Chauri Chaura Martyrs Memorial. A memorial to the dead policemen was dedicated by the British colonial authorities in 1923. [12] Following independence, the words Jai Hind [13] were added to it, as well as a verse by poet Jagdamba Prasad Mishra which is made famous by revolutionary poet Ram Prasad Bismil.
Anugrah Narayan Sinha (18 June 1887 – 5 July 1957), known as Bihar Vibhuti, was an Indian nationalist politician, participant in Champaran Satyagraha, Gandhian & one [1] of the architects of modern Bihar, who was the first Deputy Chief Minister [2] and the Finance Minister of the Indian state of Bihar (1946–1957). [3]