Kakori train robbery

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The Kakori train robbery was a 1925 armed raid on a British government train in Uttar Pradesh, India, carried out by Indian revolutionaries as a high-profile act of resistance against colonial rule.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf armed robbery
event in the Indian independence movement
revolutionary action
alsoKnownAs Kakori train robbery
surface form: Kakori conspiracy
charge conspiracy against the King-Emperor
commemoratedIn Indian nationalist historiography
commemoratedOn Kakori train robbery self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kakori Shaheed Diwas
country British India
date 9 August 1925
executionDateOfKeyConvicts 19 December 1927
leader Ram Prasad Bismil
legalProceeding Kakori train robbery self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kakori trial
location Lucknow district
near Kakori, Uttar Pradesh
motive funding revolutionary activities
protest against British colonial rule
operatorOfTarget Central Railway
surface form: Great Indian Peninsula Railway
opponent Government of British India
surface form: British colonial government
organisedBy Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
surface form: Hindustan Republican Association
participant Ashfaqulla Khan
Banwari Lal
Chandrasekhar Azad
surface form: Chandrashekhar Azad

Keshab Chakravarty
Manmath Nath Gupta
surface form: Manmathnath Gupta

Mukundi Lal
Banwari Lal
surface form: Murari Lal

Rajendra Lahiri
Ram Prasad Bismil
Roshan Singh
Sachindra Bakshi
Roshan Singh
surface form: Thakur Roshan Singh
perpetrator Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
surface form: Hindustan Republican Association
planningDuration several months before August 1925
politicalContext Indian independence movement
region northern India
surface form: North India
result Kakori train robbery self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kakori conspiracy case

arrest of many Hindustan Republican Association members
sentence death sentence for Ashfaqulla Khan
death sentence for Rajendra Lahiri
death sentence for Ram Prasad Bismil
death sentence for Roshan Singh
significance symbol of revolutionary resistance to British rule
state Uttar Pradesh
target Number 8 Down Train
targetOwner Government of British India
typeOfCrime train robbery
victim British Indian treasury
weaponUsed firearms
year 1925

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Chandrasekhar Azad eventParticipatedIn Kakori train robbery
this entity surface form: Kakori conspiracy
Chandrasekhar Azad eventParticipatedIn Kakori train robbery
this entity surface form: Kakori train robbery of 1925
Ram Prasad Bismil participatedIn Kakori train robbery
this entity surface form: Kakori conspiracy
Ashfaqulla Khan notableEvent Kakori train robbery
Ashfaqulla Khan convictedOf Kakori train robbery
this entity surface form: Kakori conspiracy
Kakori train robbery result Kakori train robbery self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kakori conspiracy case
Kakori train robbery legalProceeding Kakori train robbery self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kakori trial
Kakori train robbery alsoKnownAs Kakori train robbery
this entity surface form: Kakori conspiracy
Kakori train robbery commemoratedOn Kakori train robbery self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kakori Shaheed Diwas
shootout at Alfred Park relatedTo Kakori train robbery
this entity surface form: Kakori conspiracy
Chandra Shekhar Tiwari knownFor Kakori train robbery
present-day Shahjahanpur associatedWithEvent Kakori train robbery
subject surface form: Shahjahanpur
this entity surface form: Kakori conspiracy