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Lala Lajpat Rai was one of the outstanding leaders of modern India, a contemporary of Dadabhai Naroji, Tilak, Gokhale and Gandhi. His public life spanned the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century. He practiced law at the Lahore Chief Court and built up a lucrative practice, but was drawn very early into public activities pertaining to religious, educational and social reforms and then into nationalist politics. Lajpat Rai was one of the foremost leaders of the Indian National Congress. His arrest and deportation without trial to Burma in 1907 created a great sensation in India. He spent the war years (1914-18) in the United States propagat...
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On the life and works of Lala Lajpat Rai, 1865-1928, freedom fighter and nationalist who fought against the British during the Indian freedom struggle.
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Excerpt from Lala Lajpat Rai: The Man in His Word The publishers of this book need offer no apology for bringing to public notice the life and teachings of a man whose name is at present on everybody's lips and whose sufferings in the cause of his country have raised political agitation and the struggle for political liberty in India to the dignity of a Church. It is but proper that the meanest in the land no less than the highest should know Lala Lajpat Rai's claims to the people's good will and the Government's execration how the Lala wanted to serve the Nation and how the bureaucratic Government came to think him at last so dangerous to its very existence, that it thought fit to kidnap hi...