Bhagat Singh Revisited: Historiography, Biography and Ideology of the Great Matyr

Why Bhagat Singh has emerged as the greatest icon of the Indian youth? Was for his martyrdom or some ideology? For some years there has been a concerted effort to denigrate his martyrdom and to project him as an ideologue. What is the true legacy of Bhagat SinghV Bhagar Singh Revisited: Historiography, Biography and Ideology office Great Martyr traces the historiography of this distortion. It is the result of almost five years of meticulous research with care taken to consult almost every available source - archival, contemporary memoirs, newspapers and others. It establishes that Bhagat Singh did not meet martyrdom accidently rather invited it m a calculated manner and failed all the eftbrta to save his life. He made supreme sacrifice to awaken the masses tor the freedom of the motherland. He was a patriot par excellence. Freedom of the motherland came to him first and ideology later. This book, for the first rimp.