Madan Lal Dhingra was an Indian revolutionary and pro-independence activist. While studying in England, he assassinated William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a British official. He had planned to kill George Curzon, Viceroy of India, but was late for a meeting and could not carry out his plan. He was disowned for his political activities by his father, who was the Chief Medical Officer in Amritsar.
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Madan Lal Dhingra was an Indian revolutionary and pro-independence activist. While studying in England, he assassinated William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a British official. He had planned to kill George Curzon, Viceroy of India, but was late for a meeting and could not carry out his plan. He was disowned for his political activities by his father Gitta Mall, who was the Chief Medical Officer in Amritsar, who went so far as to publish his decision in newspaper advertisements. Several weeks before assassinating Curzon Wylie, he also tried to kill Bampfylde Fuller, the ex-Governor of Bengal, who had tried to assassinate him as well. He rose to the highest rank of Political Aide-de-Camp for India and was also the head of the Secret Police and had been trying to obtain information about Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his fellow activists. He died of a heart attack at the age of 40. He is buried in the village of Arora in Rajputana, Rajasthan, on the banks of the River Ganges, where he grew up with his mother and five siblings. He also had a son, Bihari Lal, who died in a car crash in the Himalayan foothills in the 1970s. He has been described as the ‘father of the Indian independence movement’ and the ‘greatest man of our time’ by his family and friends. He wrote a biography of his father, Dr.
Geeta Mal Dhinga, which has been published by the University of California, Los Angeles, and has also been translated into English and Hindi. The biography also includes a foreword written by his brother, Dr Bihar Lal, and an extract from the first edition of the second edition of his book, which is published by The Indian National Institute of History and Science, University of London. The second edition is available in English and in the third edition by the Indian National University Press. The third edition of this book is published in English by The University of India Press, and is available on request from the British National Institute for Historical Research, London, priced £15.99. The fourth edition is a collection of the first two volumes of the book, published by The Indian National Institutes of History, University and University of Lahore, priced between £10.99 and £16.99, and includes an extract of the fourth volume, ‘The Making of a Revolutionary’. The fifth and final volume of the collection, “The Making Of A Revolutionary,” is published on November 14, 2013, by the British Institute of Historians, University & University Press, London. It is available at the British Museum for £15, £10, £5, £6, £7, £8, £9 and £8.
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