Martyrs' Memorial Patna

Martyr's Memorial
India

Martyr's Memorial
Used for those deceased
Established August 15, 1947
Location 25°36′28.77″N 85°10′03.06″E / 25.6079917°N 85.1675167°E / 25.6079917; 85.1675167
near Patna, Bihar, India
Designed by Deviprasad Roychoudhury
Total commemorated
 Seven brave young men
Burials by nation
Burials by war
To the Seven brave young men who sacrificed their lives in the Quit India movement, while attempting to hoist the national flag.
Statistics source: Official site of Patna

The Martyr's Memorial, also known as Shaheed Smarak, is a life-size statue of seven young men who sacrificed their lives in the Quit India movement (August 1942), to hoist the national flag on the (now) Secretariat building. The foundation stone of Martyr's Memorial was laid on August 15, 1947, by the governor of Bihar, Mr. Jairam Das Daulatram. The sculptor Deviprasad Roychoudhury built the bronze statue of the seven students with the national flag. These statues were cast in Italy and later placed here.[1]

Martyr's Memorial is situated outside the Secretariat building in Patna.[2][3]

Background/List engraved names on Martyr's Memorial

During the height of Quit India Movement [4] in 1942, eminent Gandhian Dr.Anugrah Narain was arrested while he was trying to unfurl the national flag in Patna,as a strong reaction, a group of seven young students decided to forcefully unfurl the national flag in Patna and were mercilessly shot dead by the British. Following are the martyrs, whose names are engraved on Martyr's Memorial.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://patna.bih.nic.in/html/martyrs.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.mapsofindia.com/patna/places-of-interest/shaheed-smarak.html
  3. ↑ Lucent's Bihar General Knowledge, Lucent Publication, Page No- 76
  4. ↑ http://vidyasagar1995.blogspot.in/2014/08/11.html


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