Lala Lajpat Rai (1865–1928) was a Hindu nationalist, lawyer,
reformer, and military leader.
Lajpat Rai was born into a poor Punjabi household and became
affluent via his legal career.
He was able to dedicate all of his earnings to public
service by the age of 35.
He joined the Arya Samaj while he was still a teenager and
helped to create Lahore's Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College in 1889.
He was involved in a number of social and educational
efforts around the turn of the century.
He later became involved in politics.
He was imprisoned multiple times for vigorously resisting
British control.
He refused to preach violence, unlike many of his
contemporaries.
His political commitment cost him his life; he died as a
result of injuries received during a police beating while leading a rally in
Lahore.
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