THE MAN WHO AVENGED BHAGAT SINGH

The Forgotten Schoolmaster and the Midnight Blade of the HSRA

**TAGLINE:** *Before he was a martyr, he was a teacher. Before he faced the gallows, he was the instrument of an empire’s reckoning.*

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**ABOUT THE BOOK**

**March 23, 1931.** The execution of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru sends a wave of grief and fury across colonized India. The hangings were not just an act of British brutality—they were the result of a devastating internal betrayal. A high-ranking revolutionary, Phanindra Nath Ghosh, turned Crown Informant, selling out the central committee of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) for imperial silver and a protected lifestyle.

While the British Raj believed they had permanently broken the spine of the armed resistance, a quiet storm was gathering in the alluvial plains of north Bihar.

Baikuntha Shukla.

To his students in the village of Mathurapur, he was a gentle, deeply respected schoolmaster. To the British Imperial Police, he was an invisible shadow. But to the shattered remnants of the HSRA, he was the chosen instrument of revolutionary justice.

In this gripping, meticulously researched historical masterpiece, the forgotten saga of Bihar’s most ferocious young patriot comes to life. Walk alongside Baikuntha as he leaves his quiet classroom, transforms into an underground operative under the tutelage of the Tirhut Axis, and plots the ultimate operational mandate: the execution of the traitor.

On a crowded evening inside the heavily guarded Meena Bazar of Bettiah, two worlds collide. With absolute tactical precision and raw steel, the schoolmaster delivers an unambiguous message to the British Raj—*imperial protection cannot save a traitor from the reach of the resistance.*

*The Man Who Avenged Bhagat Singh* is a heart-pounding journey through clandestine safehouses, dense agrarian guerrilla networks, high-stakes forensic dragnets, and the ultimate, defiant walk to the gallows of Gaya Central Jail. Facing the noose at just twenty-seven years old, open-faced and shouting *Inquilab Zindabad*, Baikuntha Shukla’s sacrifice became the explosive spark that ignited the historic uprisings of 1942.