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The Red Pamphlet
The Red Pamphlet
impossible, is inevitable.
"Long Live the Revolution." [B]
Signed,
Balraj [C]
Commander-in-Chief
Transcriber's Notes
[A] This document was primarily written by Bhagat Singh. On April 8, 1929, Bhagat
Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt showered copies of the leaflet on the floor of Central
Assembly Hall in New Delhi after tossing two bombs into the Assembly Hall corridors.
[B] This phrase (translated from "Inquilab Zindabad!" became one of the most enduring
slogans of the Indian Independence Movement. Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutta
repeated the slogan at their June 1929 trial on charges related to the bomb-throwing
incident.
[C] "Balraj" was the pen name for the Commander-in-chief of the Hindustan Socialist
Republican Army, Chander Shekhar Azad.
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