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In Punjab-United Provinces-Bihar

The revolutionary activity in this region was dominated by the Hindustan Republican Association/Army or HRA (later renamed Hindustan Socialist Republican Association or HSRA). The HRA was founded in October 1924 in Kanpur by Ramprasad Bismil, Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee and Sachin Sanyal, with an aim to organise an armed revolution to overthrow the colonial government and establish in its place the Federal Republic of United States of India whose basic principle would be adult franchise.

 

Kakori Robbery (August 1925)The HSRASaunders’ Murder (Lahore, December 1928)Bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly (April 1929)Action against the Revolutionaries