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Indira Gandhi suspended the Constitution, jailed 100,000 political opponents, and gagged the press for 21 months โ then called elections, lost, and Indian democracy survived. The Emergency.
Born in 1907, hanged in 1931. In three intense years, Bhagat Singh reshaped how a generation understood freedom, sacrifice, and the political price of resistance.
A British barrister who had never visited India got five weeks to draw a border. That line triggered history's largest migration, and its wounds still shape South Asian geopolitics.