Name: Mansavi Patyar
Country: India

Year: 2017
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 48-53

Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh are regarded as the legendary leaders committed towards Indian freedom movement. However, their means were different. Mahatma Gandhi spearheaded a civil disobedience movement founded on the principles of non-violence and Satyagraha. While Bhagat Singh waged a revolutionary armed struggle based upon violence, who inspired youth to participate in this freedom movement. Bhagat Singh was executed while he was only 24 years old. In contrast, Gandhi lived a long life and India succeeded in gaining freedom under his leadership. Both hailed as national heroes yet history has witnessed the prominence of Mahatma Gandhi in Indian freedom. Furthermore, it is evident that as a young lad, Bhagat Singh’s inspiration was Mahatma Gandhi who actively took part in the non-cooperation movement and was a believer to get freedom under Gandhi’s leadership. But when Gandhi called off the movement following the Chauri Chaura riot in 1922, Bhagat Singh became disenchanted with Gandhism and gradually veered towards the tenets of armed revolutionary struggle. So, the present study will try to highlight whether it is actually correct to say that Bhagat Singh was a total contrast to Mahatma Gandhi? Their distinctly different approaches have spawned many controversies and even conspiracy theories. But Gandhi was admirer of Bhagat Singh and publicly acknowledged his patriotism on many occasions. There are some questions like: What were the reasons behind Mahatma Gandhi's success in achieving self rule in India? What were the major causes behind conversion and diversion between Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh? What are the Revolutionary movements, rules and methods of both to achieve freedom and in what respects they were different? For the present study, the researcher will use the primary as well as secondary sources available on the present research work. Further, the researcher will try to visit living places of both personalities to collect further required information to analyse the conclusion with deeper study of the proposed topic. The present study will also explore the perceptions of both leaders regarding each other and Gandhi’s role in Bhagat Singh’s defence?
Keywords: prominence: holding higher value than others executed: perform disenchanted: disappointed by someone or something previously respected or admired veered: swing spawned: released