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SOHAN LAL PATHAK
(Freedom Fighter)
Sohan
Lal was born on 7th January 1883 in the house of Pt. Chanda
Ram, a poor Brahmin of Patti, District Amritsar. Being a
brilliant student, he won scholarships and prizes a number of
times while he was at the local school. But he discontinued
his studies after he passed the Middle examination and secured
employment in the Irrigation Department. After a short time he
left this service and joined the Normal Training School,
Lahore. On the completing of the course he took up the work of
a schoolteacher.
During
his stay at Lahore, he developed strong leanings towards the
national movement. The revolutionary uprising of 1905-07
created a deep impact of his mind. He resigned his job as
protest against the Headmaster’s ordering him to break off his
contacts with Lala Lajpat Rai and other national leaders.
Thereafter, be became joint Editor of the Urdu journal Bande
Matram working under Lajpat Rai. Simultaneously, he joined the
classes, which Lala Hardyal had started at Lahore to
impregnate the youth of India with the fire of
revolution.
Sohan
Lal shifted the field of his activities to Burma. Immediately,
a search was started for the arrest of this dangerous
revolutionary. It was not so easy to lay hands upon him, as he
knew the local language and moved freely in the country in the
dress of the native people. At last the Government succeeded
in arresting him in August 1915 at Memyo (Burma). He was
detained in the fort of Mandlay during his trial. The court
declared him guilty and sentenced to death. He died on the
gallows on 10th February 1916. Another great freedom fighter
who died with him on the gallows was Harnam Singh Sahari.
Source: chakdephate.com
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