Life span was completed

To take revenge

Those were the days when the seeds of the struggle for freedom sown during what was miscalled the Indian Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, had begun sprout glowingly all over the sprawling British- ruled India. Many young men fired by the blaze of national spirit burst on the horizon spreading the message of freedom in secret, and also openly, committing acts of protest to tell the world what they sought. Indeed they were the heroes of the Indian Freedom Movement. They laid down their precious young lives at the altar of their motherland, Bharatha Matha. The stirring story of one such group of noble patriotic sons of Mother India, which spun round the murder of a British civilian officer, came to be known as " Ashe Murder Case". It occupies a place of honor in the history of the Indian Freedom Movement.
Robert W. D. E. Ashe, a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS, also known as the Steel Frame of the British Indian Government) and tradition-bound Britisher was then the Sub--Collector at the s ...more