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Saifuddin Kitchlew

Indian revolutionary and politician (1888–1963)

PersonDied aged 75humanQ4222507

Born: January 15, 1888
Died: October 9, 1963
Birthplace: Amritsar
Place of death: Delhi
Citizenship: British Raj(until 1947)
, India(since 1950)
, Dominion of India(1947–1950)
Occupation: politician
, barrister
, freedom fighter
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Education: University of Cambridge
, University of Allahabad

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Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew was an Indian independence activist, barrister, politician and later a leader of the peace movement. A member of Indian National Congress, he first became Punjab Provincial Congress Committee head and later the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee in 1924. He is most remembered for the protests in Punjab after the implementation of Rowlatt Act in March 1919, after which on 10 April, he and another leader Satyapal, were secretly sent to Dharamsala. A public protest rally against their arrest and that of Gandhi, on 13 April 1919 at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, led to the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre. He was also a founding member of Jamia Millia Islamia. He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952.

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Jamia Millia Islamia1920 · public central university in New Delhi

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Sex or gender: male
Member of political party: Indian National Congress
Religion or worldview: Islam
Awards: International Stalin Prize for Peace(1952)
Movement: Indian independence movement
Name in native language: Saifuddin Kitchlew

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