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title: "Facts We Bet You Didn't Know About Chandra Shekhar Azad"  
description: "Chandra Shekhar Azad, popularly known as 'Azad', was born on 23 July 1906 in the Jujhautiya Brahmins family of Pandit Sitaram Tiwari and Jagrani Devi in Bhavra"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-18  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1608/facts-we-bet-you-didn-t-know-about-chandra-shekhar-azad  
category: "history"  
tags: ["Chandra Shekhar Azad", "Azad", "history", "history facts", "Azad facts", "Chandra Shekhar Azad facts"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Facts We Bet You Didn't Know About Chandra Shekhar Azad

![Facts We Bet You Didn t Know About Chandra Shekhar Azad](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/be2a1d8c-2c05-4910-881c-5a2f214f79fb/images/9515a303-b454-4972-bc90-ab1d3b174fe3.jpeg) ![Facts We Bet You Didn t Know About Chandra Shekhar Azad](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/be2a1d8c-2c05-4910-881c-5a2f214f79fb/images/36e20de2-8886-4b6f-9ba4-ea5258c3c590.jpeg) Chandra Shekhar's mother wanted to make her son a great Sanskrit scholar and so she persuaded his father to send him to Kashi Vidyapeeth in Varanasi ![Facts We Bet You Didn t Know About Chandra Shekhar Azad](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/be2a1d8c-2c05-4910-881c-5a2f214f79fb/images/193b172f-95c6-4747-8fa3-28655b6479c2.jpeg) In December 1921, when Mahatma Gandhi launched the non-cooperation movement, he joined in despite being just a student. ![Facts We Bet You Didn t Know About Chandra Shekhar Azad](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/be2a1d8c-2c05-4910-881c-5a2f214f79fb/images/1fc75ced-8c34-4c84-94c1-a16080ed3549.jpeg) He also learned archery from the tribal Bhils of erstwhile Jhabua district which helped him during the arms struggle against the Britishers ![Facts We Bet You Didn t Know About Chandra Shekhar Azad](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/be2a1d8c-2c05-4910-881c-5a2f214f79fb/images/849193e2-ed04-45d7-99c7-086e558261e9.jpeg) He was most famous for the Kakori Rail Dacoity in 1925 and the assassination of assistant superintendent of police John Poyantz Saunders in 1928. ![Facts We Bet You Didn t Know About Chandra Shekhar Azad](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/be2a1d8c-2c05-4910-881c-5a2f214f79fb/images/f409cc4e-7a74-4a12-b8fe-30550feae9e2.jpeg) As a revolutionary, he adopted the last name Azad, which means 'free' in Urdu. ![Facts We Bet You Didn t Know About Chandra Shekhar Azad](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/be2a1d8c-2c05-4910-881c-5a2f214f79fb/images/36631a64-3525-4eca-985b-89cccad18ce6.jpeg) Azad was also a believer in socialism as the basis for future India, free of social and economic oppression and adversity. ![Facts We Bet You Didn t Know About Chandra Shekhar Azad](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/be2a1d8c-2c05-4910-881c-5a2f214f79fb/images/9515a303-b454-4972-bc90-ab1d3b174fe3.jpeg) Azad did not feel that violence was unacceptable in the struggle, especially in view of the Jalliawallah Bagh Massacre of 1919 ![Facts We Bet You Didn t Know About Chandra Shekhar Azad](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/be2a1d8c-2c05-4910-881c-5a2f214f79fb/images/36528635-9232-4c10-a876-9f476de7ac31.jpeg) Bhagat Singh joined Azad following the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, after he was beaten by police officials. Azad trained Singh

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