It is a collection of ideas on freedom, liberty and revolution from over 110 sources made by Bhagat Singh (1907-1931), one of the greatest Indian revolutionaries, during his last imprisonment (1929-1931) in the Central Jail, Lahore (Punjab). The ideas are really great. Powerful. They inspired the great revolutionary. And he jotted them down with the hope that his countrymen in particular, and the so-called ‘wretched of the earth’ in general, would be inspired by them to fight and destroy the relations which reduced the humans to the level of beasts of burden. Somebody has rightly said that most of these ideas are so powerful that even the dead men, if at all they could read them, would rise to action!Unfortunately, Bhagat Singh the visionary, the creative dreamer, the extraordinary student of history, politics and human relations is not fully visible in most of this biographies. Many scenes of the drama entitled Inquilab (change) that he hurriedly wrote and magnificently staged are conspicuously absent. The tip that we see today does not show the iceberg.The centenary year of Bhagat Singh’s birth is the right occasion to seriously study him, his life, and his intellectual and ideological temper in full. The present work, this facsimile of Bhagat Singh’s Jail Notes, will, perhaps, be of great help in the task.
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