HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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Question
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Madan Lal Dhingra
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Har Dayal
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Udham Singh
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Roshan Singh
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Detailed explanation-1: -Madan Lal Dhingra (18 September 1883-17 August 1909) was an Indian revolutionary, pro-independence activist. While studying in England, he assassinated William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a British official.
Detailed explanation-2: -On 1 July 1909, he attended an ‘At Home’ hosted by the National Indian Association at the Imperial Institute. At the end of the event, as the guests were leaving, Dhingra shot Sir Curzon-Wyllie, an India Office official, at close range. His bullets also hit Dr Lalcaca, a Parsee doctor, who was killed.
Detailed explanation-3: -At a reception given by one such association – the National Indian Association – in 1909, Wyllie was shot by Madan Lal Dhingra, an Indian student. A Parsee physician, Dr Cawas Lalcaca, who sought to protect Wyllie, was also killed.