Person · Kakori revolutionary
Ashfaqulla Khan
Also known as Ashfaq
Ashfaqulla Khan (22 October 1900 - 19 December 1927), the Hindustan Republican Association revolutionary and Muslim comrade of Ram Prasad Bismil at the 9 August 1925 Kakori Train Robbery. Born at Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Khan was Bismil's closest ally in the HRA Shahjahanpur unit — a Hindu-Muslim revolutionary friendship that became iconic. After the Kakori robbery, he escaped to Delhi and was captured in December 1926 through betrayal. He was hanged at Faizabad Jail on 19 December 1927 — the same day as Bismil (whose body hangs from Gorakhpur Jail bear his couplet). The 2000 Lucknow Ashfaqulla Khan Memorial and the 2016 Lucknow Zoo renaming honour him.
- Date
- 1900–1927
- Function
- Social reform & movement
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
Connections (1)
- Court associationRam Prasad Bismil
Ashfaqulla Khan and Ram Prasad Bismil were the two closest comrades of the HRA Shahjahanpur unit — a Hindu-Muslim revolutionary friendship that became iconic. They were hanged on the same day (19 December 1927) at different jails (Bismil at Gorakhpur, Khan at Faizabad). Their joint 9 August 1925 Kakori Train Robbery and their simultaneous executions represent the HRA's early Hindu-Muslim revolutionary unity ideal.
Sources
Standard biography; regional historiography.
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