Thread by @sayan_dey

Following last night's post on my series #LestWeForget, I am back with a new post. This is the 7th post in this series. Sincere thanks to @Lighta2b2z2 Ji for the recommendation for this post. Really, how little we know about our heroes! Request everybody to read on! Thanks!

#LestWeForget Post 7:

19 April 1910 (112 years ago): Anant Laxman Kanhere, Krishnaji Gopal Karve and Vinayak Narayan Deshpande were hanged - Born in a Brahmin family in 1909 in the Ratnagiri district (present day Maharashtra), Anant Laxman Kanhere completed his primary...

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education in Nizamabad and English education in Aurangabad. During his stay in Aurangabad, he put up in a hired room in Gangaram Rupchand Shroff's house. Gangaram had a friend named Tonpe, who was a member of a secret society in Nashik. Anant befriended Gangaram,...

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who had also become a part of the secret society, and this led to his introduction in the secret society.

He was immediately influenced by the work of the various revolutionary groups which were operating from Nashik, a part of the Bombay Province under...

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the British rule. The famous revolutionary organization, Abhinav Bharat Society had been created by the Savarkar Brothers as a society for the revolutionary activities during this time. This led to the creation of various small revolutionary groups in and around Nashik,...

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guided by Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, elder brother of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

All these revolutionary activities were being closely watched by the British police. Subsequently, Ganesh Damodar Savarkar was arrested for printing a sixteen-page book containing songs of Kavi...

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Govind by a British police officer, Arthur Mason Tippetts Jackson. For this and his subsequent successes, Jackson was soon promoted to the post of Commissioner of Bombay. Krishnaji Karve, a freedom-fighter and a lawyer, Vinayak Narayan Deshpande, a teacher...

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and a freedom-fighter and Anant Kanhere decided to put an end to Jackson's life, before he got transferred to Bombay.

Since Jackson was quite popular among the people of Nashik, due to his habit of mixing well with the people and his self-projection of being a...

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people-friendly officer, the locals decided to give Jackson a farewell at the famous Vijayanand Theatre in Nashik, by hosting a drama for him. This was the opportunity which Anant, along with Krishnaji and Vinayak, decided to use to assassinate Jackson. A plan was...

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drawn up in which Anant would first try to kill Jackson and immediately commit suicide by taking poison, which he would be carrying, to save his other partners. If Anant's attempt failed, the backup plan was that Vinayak would shoot Jackson and if that also...

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failed, Karve would be carrying a weapon to do the needful.

On the fateful day of 21st December, 1909, shortly after Jackson arrived at the theatre, Anant jumped in front of him and fired four bullets at him, which instantly killed him. The Indian officers...

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accompanying Jackson caught hold of Anant and attacked him with their batons. Thus, he could not shoot himself or reach for the poison he was carrying.

In the case which was registered against Anant, he admitted his part in this killing which made the job easier...

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for the Chief Justice of Bombay to give the judgment against him and his partners, Krishnaji and Vinayak by sentencing them to death. The three were hanged on this day in 1910, i.e. 19th April, 1910 in the Thane Prison. Anant was only 18 and Krishnaji was just 23...

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Their bodies were burnt by the prison officers, after the execution, rather than being handed over to their families, as was the custom. Their Ashti was also thrown in the sea near Thane, without being handed over to their relatives.

This was the level of dignity...

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which the British had reserved for the Indian freedom-fighters. And even after paying their ultimate price, they haven't got their due from us, the free Indians, for whom they had sacrificed everything. Let us bring them back to the limelight, let us live up to...

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their ideals, let us make them proud by being the dutiful children of the Free India, they had dreamt of. Jai Hind!

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