A new book describes Delhi University students’ participation in the freedom movement
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We turn our attention to the role of the students of Delhi University in the freedom struggle and sit with Durga Chand, the grandson of Amir Chand, who was one of the four hanged to death for the Hardinge bomb case. His family runs M/S S Chand and Company Pvt Ltd, a leading publisher of school and college textbooks. The company, founded in 1917, aimed to provide cheap school and college textbooks to Indian students. In a market dominated by European authors and publishers, its founder Lala Sultan Chand encouraged Indian professors to write in a language easily understood by local students and to market their works at affordable prices. We ask Durga Chand about his grandfather.
“Master Amir Chand was an ex-Stephanian and one of the four hanged by the British in 1915 in the infamous Hardinge bomb case,” he tells us proudly.
He recalls the details of the case. On December 23, 1912, a small group of revolutionaries led by Rash Behari Bose hurled a bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge as he rode in procession on an elephant through Chandni Chowk. The bomb blew up the howdah in which Lord Hardinge sat and killed the attendant standing behind it. Lord Hardinge had...