Gendalal Dixit Punyatithi

Gendalal Dixit Punyatithi
● Gendalal Dixit, who raised the voice of freedom in the Chambal’s badland, was born on November 30, 1888, in Baha Tehsil of Agra District, Uttar Pradesh.
● Gendalal Dixit jerked the British government by robbery and looting weapons in British police stations.
● After completing his education, he became a teacher in D.A.V. School of Auraiya district in Uttar Pradesh.
● Dixit was deeply influenced by the nationwide 'Swadeshi Movement' in 1905 as a result of the partition of Bengal.
● He formed an organization of dacoits by the name of "Shivaji Samiti" and started a campaign in Uttar Pradesh against the British State by doing guerilla warfare like Shivaji.
● Gendalal Dixit was an inimitable warrior of the Indian freedom struggle, a great revolutionary and an excellent patriot, who did a great job of uniting even the dacoits along with the common people to stand against the British Empire.
● Dixit was called 'Dronacharya of the revolutionaries of North India'.
● Revolutionary Gendalal Dixit along with his other dacoits of Chambal committed dacoity in Hathkan police station of Uttar Pradesh. In this 21 British policemen were killed.
● After coming back from Singapore, he established 'Matrivedi Dal' in 1916 along with many fellow revolutionaries including Bismil. Gendalal Dixit himself was the commander of Matrivedi, Dasyuraj Pancham Singh was made its president and the responsibility of the organization was given to Laxmananand Brahmachari.
● To run the party, a central committee of 40 people was formed, which included 30 Chambal rebels and 10 revolutionaries. Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil and journalist Shiv Charan Lal Sharma were also included in these 10 revolutionaries.
● 36 revolutionaries were martyred in the firing during the clash of the revolutionaries with the police. Gendalal Dixit and Laxmananand Brahmachari got hit by three and nine bullets respectively, both got arrested. All the injured arrested revolutionaries were locked in the Gwalior Fort under the supervision of the military.
● The case was prosecuted as Mainpuri Conspiracy Case, because Dalpat Singh, a member of the party, had informed the Mainpuri District Magistrate only.
● When Gendalal was taken out from the prison of the fort and brought in front of IG in Mainpuri, he said, you have kept these children in vain. I myself responsible for this matter. I have links in Punjab, Bengal, Bombay, Gujarat and abroad, you should release all of them. The IG trusted his words, and released few of them.
● During the lock-up in Mainpuri, his associate Devnarayan Bhartiya gave him a revolver and iron saw in a fruit basket, with the help of which Gendalal escaped by cutting the bars.
● He died in a hospital in Delhi on December 21, 1920 at the age of just 30 years.