Thakur Roshan Singh was hanged as one of the four Kakori revolutionaries. He never actually took part in the Kakori robbery itself.
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Thakur Roshan Singh
Hanged for Kakori, without taking part in the robbery
22 Jan 1892
Born in Nabada village, Shahjahanpur district.
1924
Joins the HRA, after release from jail for the Bareilly case.
Dec 1924
Tried for a murder linked to the Bamrauli dacoity.
19 Dec 1927
Hanged at Naini Jail, Allahabad.
Tried with Kakori, convicted for something else
Roshan Singh never took part in the Kakori train robbery. His death sentence rested on a separate case, the Bamrauli dacoity, bundled into the same trial.
Must Know
- Thakur Roshan Singh was born on 22 January 1892, in Nabada village, Shahjahanpur district.
- He came from a Rajput family.
- He was sentenced for the Bareilly shooting case, during the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1921-22.
- After his release from jail, he joined the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA), in 1924.
- He faced trial for a murder connected to the Bamrauli dacoity, in December 1924.
- He did not actually take part in the Kakori train robbery of August 1925.
- Despite this, he was tried alongside Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, and Rajendra Lahiri, in the same case.
- He was sentenced to death in January 1926, and hanged on 19 December 1927, at Allahabad’s Naini Jail.
Good to Know
- Three of the four Kakori revolutionaries, Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, and Roshan Singh, were executed on the same day.
- Rajendra Lahiri, the fourth, was hanged two days earlier, at a separate jail.
- After his execution, his family faced serious social and economic hardship. Finding matrimonial matches for his sisters became especially difficult.
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Great to Know
- Roshan Singh’s death sentence rested on the Bamrauli dacoity case, not on Kakori itself. This distinction is often lost in accounts that group all four Kakori revolutionaries as equally involved in the same robbery.
- At 35, he was noticeably older than his three co-accused. Bismil was 30, Lahiri was 26, and Ashfaqulla Khan was around 27.
- His case shows how the British bundled separate revolutionary activity into one high-profile trial and verdict.
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