"Magistrate: What is your name? Chandrashekhar Tiwari: Azad (Free). Magistrate: Your father’s name? Chandrashekhar Tiwari: Swatantrata (Independence). This was the conversation between the court magistrate and Chandrashekhar Tiwari after the latter was arrested for his participation in the non-cooperation movement in December 1921. He was then only 15 years old."
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Chandra Shekhar Azad in Rawal M. S. & Rawal Y. S. (2019). Saffron swords. Garuda Prakashan.
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Chandra Shekhar Azad
Chandra Shekhar Tiwari ( 23 July 1906 – 27 February 1931), popularly known as Chandra Shekhar Azad, was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) after the death of its founder, Ram Prasad Bismil, and three other prominent party leaders, Roshan Singh, Rajendra Nath Lahiri and Ashfaqulla Khan. He hailed from Bardarka village in Unnao district of United Provinces and his parents were Si
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