Ram Prasad Bismil

Ram Prasad Bismil was an Indian poet, writer and revolutionary against British rule who wrote in Urdu and Hindi under the pen names Ram, Agyat and Bismil. Born in Shahjahanpur district in the North-Western Provinces, he formed the revolutionary group Matrivedi and took part in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, then lived in hiding. A founding member of the Hindustan Republican Association, he planned the Kakori train robbery of 9 August 1925, in which ten revolutionaries stopped a train near Lucknow to seize the government treasury it carried. After 18 months of legal process he was sentenced to death and hanged at Gorakhpur Jail on 19 December 1927.