Pratap Singh Baharat

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Kunwar Pratap Singh Barhath was an independence activist from Rajasthan. He took a prominent part in the revolutionary movement against British rule in India. He was a son of Thakur Kesari Singh Barahath.

Born on 24th May 1893 to a Charan family at Udaipur of the Indian state of Rajasthan, he joined the Revolutionary Party as a follower of Ras Bihari Bose. He participated in the revolutionary plot to throw a bomb at Lord Hardinge, Viceroy of India on 3 December 1912. His uncle Jorawar Singh Barhath was also in that group. He was arrested in the Banaras Conspiracy Case and was sentenced in Feb 1916 to five years RI. He was subjected to brutal torture in Bareilly Central Jail to force him to divulge the names of his compatriots.[citation needed] He refused. He died in the jail on 18th May 1918 as an unsung hero. His famous quote is "I can't let thousands of mothers cry to stop my mother crying".[1]

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  1. ^ "अमर शहीद कुं. प्रताप सिंह बारहठ". udaipurtimes.com (in Hindi). 15 May 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2021.


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