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Sardar Ajit Singh Sandhu

(1881 – 1947) – (Punjab)

Sardar Ajit Singh Sandhu (Aged 66) born on 23rd February 1881, organized the agitation of Punjabi peasants against anti-farmer laws known as the ‘Punjab Colonisation Act’ (Amendment) 1906 and administrative orders increasing water rate charges. In May 1907, along with Lala Lajpat Rai, he was exiled to Mandalay in Burma.

Due to great public pressure and apprehension of unrest in the Indian Army, the order of exile was withdrawn, and both were released in October 1907. He escaped to Iran in 1909 with Sufi Amba Parshad and remained in exile for 38 years. He returned to India in March 1947 and breathed his last on the morning of 15th August 1947 at Dalhousie, the very day India was declared independent of British rule.