Chandrashekhar Azad hailed from Badarka in Uttar Pradesh and his parents were Sitaram Tiwari and Jagrani Devi.
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18 Facts About Chandrashekhar Azad
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Chandrashekhar Azad often used the pseudonym "Balraj" when signing pamphlets issued as the commander-in-chief of the HSRA.
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Chandra Shekhar Chandrashekhar Azad was born on 23 July 1906 in Bhabhra village as Chandra Shekhar Tiwari, in a Brahmin family, in the princely-state of Alirajpur.
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Chandrashekhar Azad's forefathers were from Badarka village of Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh.
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Chandrashekhar Azad's mother wanted her son to be a great Sanskrit scholar and persuaded his father to send him to Kashi Vidyapeeth, Banaras, to study.
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Chandrashekhar Azad met a young revolutionary, Manmath Nath Gupta, who introduced him to Ram Prasad Bismil who had formed the Hindustan Republican Association, a revolutionary organization.
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Chandrashekhar Azad then became an active member of the HRA and started to collect funds for HRA.
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Chandrashekhar Azad was involved in the Kakori Train Robbery of 1925, the shooting of John P Saunders at Lahore in 1928 to avenge the killing of Lala Lajpat Rai, and at last, in the attempt to blow up the Viceroy of India's train in 1929.
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Chandrashekhar Azad got to read the Communist Manifesto from his comrade Shiv Verma.
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When Chandrashekhar Azad was the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary party, he often use to borrow a book called ABC of Communism from writer Satyabhakta to teach socialism to his cadres.
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Chandrashekhar Azad built a hut near to a Hanuman temple on the banks of the Satar River and lived there under the alias of Pandit Harishankar Bramhachari for a long period.
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Chandrashekhar Azad taught children from the nearby village of Dhimarpura and thus managed to establish a good rapport with the local residents.
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Chandrashekhar Azad stayed for some time in the house of Rudra Narayan Singh at Nai Basti, as well as Bhagwat's house in Nagra.
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Chandrashekhar Azad later reorganized the HRA with the help of fellow revolutionaries like Shiv Verma and Mahabir Singh.
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Chandrashekhar Azad asked Raj to move out in order to carry on his legacy and work in the party, Chandrashekhar Azad gave him cover fire and Raj moved out safely.
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Chandrashekhar Azad hid behind a tree to save himself and began to fire from behind it.
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Jawaharlal Nehru in his autobiography wrote that Chandrashekhar Azad met him a few weeks before his death, inquiring about the possibility of not being considered an outlaw as a result of Gandhi-Irwin pact.
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Nehru wrote that Chandrashekhar Azad saw the 'futility' of his methods and so did many of his associates, though was not completely convinced that 'peaceful methods' would work either.
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