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Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav India@75
Captain Abbas Ali
BRAVEHEART WHO SHOOK THE
FOUNDATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
BORN: 3 JANUARY 1920, DEATH: 11 OCTOBER 2014
aptain Abbas Ali was born on 3 January
1920 in a Muslim-Rajput family in Khurja,
CBulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh. He
belonged to a family of freedom fighters and his
grandfather Rustam Ali Khan was hanged after
the first freedom struggle in 1857 in Bulandshahr,
Uttar Pradesh. Abbas Ali was just 11 years
old when the British hanged Shaheed-e-Azam
Bhagat Singh on 23 March 1931. Despite this, he
continued to participate in the protests and joined
the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, which was founded
by Bhagat Singh and his associates. Later, while
studying at Aligarh Muslim University, he became
a member of the All India Student Federation and
in 1939 he joined the British Indian Army with
proposed to fight the case of Colonel Dhillon the intention of revolt. Captain Abbas Ali was a
while Muslim League, came forward to help commissioned officer in the British Army and in
General Shahnawaz Khan with the legal 1940 he was sent to the South-East Asia front
case, but these military officers rejected to fight Japan. However, when Netaji Subhash
Chandra Bose led the armed revolution from
that proposal. And at that time this slogan Singapore in 1944, Captain Abbas Ali left the job
became very popular- 'the voice came from of the British Army and joined the Azad Hind Fauj.
the Red Fort - Sehgal, Dhillon, Shahnawaz.' Later he fought with the British army in Arakan,
The slogan 'Jai Hind' given by Subhash the present-day province of Rakhine in Myanmar,
Chandra Bose, whom Gandhiji gave the title but when the Japanese surrendered to the Allied
of 'Netaji', has become the national slogan forces, more than 60 thousand soldiers of the
today. In this series of Amrit Mahotsav of Azad Hind Fauj were arrested along with Abbas
Azadi, we throw light on the lives of Captain Ali. Subsequently, he was kept at the Multan fort
Abbas Ali, Ras Behari Bose, Gurbaksh Singh along with three of his companions and was later
Dhillon, and Col Nizamuddin, who were close put on a trial. Abbas Ali was court-martialed and
associates of Subhas Chandra Bose, and finally sentenced to death in 1946. Even as he
soldiers of Azad Hind Fauj. They not only was waiting to be martyred for the cause of the
fought against the British imperialism but on motherland the country became independent on
15 August 1947, after which he was released. He
the Netaji call also sacrificed everything for became socially active and engaged in building a
the Maa Bharati. new nation post-independence.
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