Place · cremation & memorial site · India
Hussainiwala
The bank of the Sutlej at the Punjab border where the bodies of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were taken after their hanging at Lahore Central Jail on 23 March 1931, hurriedly part-burned and thrown in the river to avoid a funeral procession.
- Function
- Burial and funerary
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 30.933, 74.533
Worth knowing
The site fell inside Pakistan at Partition and was exchanged for twelve villages in 1961 specifically so that India could hold it. It is now a border post with a retreat ceremony, across the river from the Lahore jail where the three were executed.
Connections (1)
- Samadhi atBhagat Singh
The bodies of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were taken from Lahore Central Jail on the night of 23 March 1931 to the bank of the Sutlej at Hussainiwala, part-burned in haste and thrown in the river to prevent a funeral procession — villagers are said to have gathered the remains the next morning. The site went to Pakistan in 1947 and India exchanged twelve villages for it in 1961 specifically to get it back.
On these journeys
Sources
Wikipedia, “Hussainiwala”. Lahore Conspiracy Case records; Chaman Lal (ed.), The Bhagat Singh Reader (2019).
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