Kakori conspiracy

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The Kakori Train Action was a train robbery that took place at Kakori, a village near Lucknow, on 9 August 1925, during the Indian independence movement against the British Raj in India. It was organised by the Indian revolutionaries of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA). The action was conceived by Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla Khan who were members of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA), which later became the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. The HRA was established to carry out revolutionary activities against the British Raj with the objective of achieving independence. Since the organisation needed money for the purchase of weaponry, Bismil and his party made a plan to rob a train on the Saharanpur railway lines. The robbery plan was executed by Bismil, Khan, Rajendra Lahiri, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Sachindra Bakshi, Keshab Chakravarthy, Manmath Nath Gupta, Mukundi Lal, Murari Lal Khanna, Vishnu Sharan Dublish and Banwari Lal. One passenger was...

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