AMRIT FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENCE "A Tribute to Heroes of Indian Freedom Struggle"

  India's Forgotten ...? Freedom Fighter


Amrit Lal “Sufi Amba Prasad” .... ?  

Sufi Amba Prasad was one of our nation’s greatest freedom fighters. But he has remained forgotten even during the year of his death centenary. Due to Amrit Mahotsav we get the pleasure to know him. While most of his life was devoted to the freedom struggle of India, Prasad was also a great journalist and writer. Sufi Amba Prasad was born on 21 January 1858 in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. One of his hands was missing from his birth. Having completed his school, college and law education in Moradabad, Bareilly and Jalandhar, at a young age Prasad decided to serve his country through his writings in Urdu. Prasad was also a great journalist and writer. Prasad was one of the heroes of the freedom struggle much admired by Bhagat Singh. In fact, Prasad was a frequent visitor to his family home and worked in very close collaboration with an uncle of Bhagat’s, name Sardar Ajit Singh. When he grew up, he used to jokingly tell his friends, “I must have lost a hand before dying while fighting in the 1857 war of independence. So when I was born again next year, one hand remained missing.”  

In the year 1890, you did the work of detective work for the magazine Amrit Bazar Patrika being published at that time by working without pay as a sweeper and cook in Bhopal's Registered House. The articles published in the magazine were on the basis of secret information given by Amritlal.  It used to work to awaken the freedom struggle in a society. He joined a larger newspaper to earn a livelihood but could last there only for a short time because of the constraints placed on his writings.

In 1909, Prasad started a newspaper called Peshwa, which led to increased surveillance of his work and activities. When another arrest appeared imminent, he escaped to Iran with Ajit to continue working for the freedom movement while in exile.

At 39, Prasad was arrested for his ‘seditious’ writings. Released in 1899 after serving a two-year prison sentence, he immediately plunged into exposing the injustices of colonial rule. The empire struck back in a more cruel way this time, sentencing him to six years imprisonment and confiscating of his properties. He was subjected to many cruelties in prison.

He was denied medicine for his illness and frequently taunted by the jailor who would say, “Sufi, you still alive?”He was given the death sentence but died in jail. A large crowd gathered at his last rites in Iran. He had gained widespread respect in the country. A memorial, erected in his honour, is still visited by several people.

                           


                        

                      

                                                   



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