Revolutionary Rajguru's Letter would be Preserved by State Government

A letter written by revolutionary Rajguru on March 21, 1930 from Lahore jail to his elder brother in Pune will be soon handed over to the state government for preservation

A letter written by Shivram Hari Rajguru, one of India's greatest revolutionaries, will be soon handed over to the state government for preservation. The letter which was written in Marathi is in possession of 65-year-old Shailaja Karve and was written by Rajguru on March 21, 1930 to his elder brother Dinkar Hari Rajguru.

According to Karve, one of the decedents of Rajguruu00a0 gave the letter to her husband late V G Karve, who was a noted handwriting expert, to analyse Rajguru's state of mind after he was awarded the death sentence. The letter was written after the sentence had been passed.

"The letter marks out Rajguru as someone bold and valiant," she said adding that now she wants to handover the letter to the government so that it could be preserved as a rare document. Meanwhile, Dr Raja Dixit, professor of History in the University of Pune, said, "The letter is authentic. I have cited the letter in a chapter in Std XIIu00a0 history textbook." He added that a photocopy of the letter has also been used in the textbook prescribed by Yashwantrao Chavan Open University for history students.

The date mark and postal stamp on the letter confirms that Rajguru wrote the letter while he was in the Lahore jail along with Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev, almost a year before the British executed them.