Most of you are unaware who this gentleman is, some of you have read his name in your school history textbook and forgot about it.
Madanlal Dhingra‘s last words were, “ My wish is that I should be born again of the same mother and that I should die the same death for her again.”
He said to the judge, “Thank you, my Lord, for my country, I thank you. I am proud to have the honour of laying down my humble life for my country. Poor in wealth and intellect, a son like myself has nothing else to offer to the mother but his own blood, and so, I have sacrificed the same on her altar.”
Lala Hardayal wrote in Bande Mataram, “In the times to come, when British in India shall have been reduced to dust and ashes, Dhingra’s monuments shall adorn the squares of our chief towns, recalling to the memory of our children the noble life and noble death of one who laid down life in a far off land for a cause he loved so very well.”
Dhingra was the inspiration for future patriots like Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekar Azad. He was the member of Savarkar’s ‘Abhinav Bharat’ and an ardent follower of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
Ireland paid glowing tributes to Madanlal Dhingra… huge placards from Irish papers read “Ireland honours Madanlal Dhingra who was proud to lay down his life for the sake of his country.”
On July 1st 1909 Dhingra, shot dead the man who was the eye and brain of the Indian office Sir Curzon Wylie.
“Just as the Germans have no right to occupy this country, so the English people have no right to occupy India; and its is terribly justifiable on our part to kill the Englishman who is polluting our sacred land. I am surprised at the terrible hypocracy, the farce and mockery of English people.”—Madanlal Dhingra
Dingra embraced the gallows on August 17, 1909. He was just 22 when he was hanged.
