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In Exhumation, Madan Lal's great niece, the actor and writer Leena Dhingra, unravels and reveals his remarkable story.

On this day, 17 August , Indian revolutionary Madan Lal Dhingra was executed by the British for his assassination of Sir Curzon Wyllie, an army officer.

Madan Lal (nowadays people add Dhingra to his name) is often held up as a 'martyr' for being hanged because he killed a Britisher.

Savarkar's po liti cal life spanned the first six de cades of the twentieth century.

The edition defended Madan Lal Dhingra's assassination of Sir William Curzon Wyllie, former Indian Army officer and India Office official.

Madan Lal (nowadays people add Dhingra to his name) is often held up as a 'martyr' for being hanged because he killed a Britisher.!

Who was Madan Lal Dhingra, freedom fighter hanged at 24

Today, on the 114th anniversary of his execution, a memorial in his name is being formally inaugurated in Amritsar’s Golbagh area.

A patriot born to British loyalists

Madan Lal Dhingra was born on 18 September , 1883 in an affluent family of Amritsar.

His father, Dr Ditta Mal Dhingra, was the chief medical officer of Amritsar and a staunch British loyalist.

After completing school education in Amritsar, in 1904, Dhingra was sent to Lahore for his Master’s degree.

It was in Lahore that his patriotism flowered, influenced by the burgeoning nationalist movement there.

Having an innate sense of justice, Dhingra was also very much concerned by the poverty he witnessed in India. While he himself was born in privilege, his patriotism was guided, in many ways, by socio-economic concerns.

He would eventually be expelled from the college in Lahore for protesting against the mandation of Britain-imported cloth for blazers, and th