Post-Independence Bharat by Bhagat Singh

Abstract

It has been a century since Bhagat Singh was executed by the British government in India and almost sixty years since India's Independence. Bhagat Singh was executed or rather murdered by the British on 23 March, 1931.Though it was termed as a capital punishment that was a result of lawsuit for his alleged conspiracies of murder, it was a farce run by the Britishers in their own law courts. But the whole period, Bhagat Singh remained in jail was an awakening for the population of India as well as Bhagat Singh himself. He exposed the farce practices of British government and the attitude of then the only body of representation of Indian people, the Congress. It was an awakening for Bhagat Singh as he got an opportunity to read the intelligent scholars from around the world in order to prepare for his proceedings in the court. It was an awakening of the Indian masses as they got aware of the forms of exploitation they were being subjected to on the hands of British colonizers and how the then members of Congress were not doing enough to put the national interests forward. Bhagat Singh during his trial and after his execution emerged out to be the shining star of Indian Independence movement and a factor that united the masses of India for their liberation. Through these decades various political parties and fringe groups of the independent India have reproduced the ideologies of him in multiple ways according to their interests and utilities. The following paper will plunge into the history of the popular ideologies and affiliations of Bhagat Singh and its appropriations by the political blocks in India.  The paper will briefly discuss the ideologies of contemporary leading political groups of India and how their doctrines coincide and dissent from that of Bhagat Singh. It will try to comprehend the complexities associated with the till now ambiguous thoughts of the revolutionary and the caricature of India that he had in his head. It is immensely imperative in the light of contemporary political milieu to understand the idea of Bharat that Bhagat Singh envisaged and comprehend its values to be applied in today's chaos that Indian political science has become.