ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>NAUJAV&#256N BH&#256RAT SABH&#256</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="NAUJAVN,BHRAT,SABH"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279NAUJAV&#256N BH&#256RAT SABH&#256, association of the Indian youth, was established at a convention held on 11-13 April 1928 at Jalli&#257&#7749v&#257l&#257 B&#257<u>gh</u> in Amritsar at the instance of the management of the radical journal <i>Kirt&#299</i> including men like Sohan Si&#7749gh Josh and Bh&#257g Si&#7749gh Canadian. Like the Kirt&#299 Kis&#257n Sabh&#257 it aimed at creating a youth wing of peasants and workers with a view to ushering in revolution in the country and overthrowing British imperial rule. Another organization with the same name already existed in Lahore involving mainly the collegians of the city. The Sabh&#257 had been active between March 1926 and April 1927, but this was a secret network not known to many outside of Punjab capital.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The first conference of the Naujav&#257n Bh&#257rat Sabh&#257 took place in Amritsar in 1928 coinciding with the political conference of the Punjab Congress Committee. It was presided over by Ked&#257rn&#257th Sehgal. The conference set up a sub-committee, consisting of Sohan Si&#7749gh Josh (Chairman), R&#257m Chander, M.A. Maj&#299d, Ehs&#257n Il&#257h&#299, Professor Chhab&#299ld&#257s, Gop&#257l Si&#7749gh Qaum&#299 and Har&#299 Si&#7749gh. The second conference of the Sabh&#257 was held on 22-24 February 1929 in Lahore under the presidentship of Sohan Si&#7749gh Josh. The resolutions adopted censured, in the severest terms, the government for making indiscriminate arrests of the youth following the murder of J.P. Saunders, Deputy Superintendent of Police on 17 December 1928, sought the repeal of the Arms Act and applauded the <u>Gh</u>adr heroes. On the last day of the conference, a portrait of one of the <u>Gh</u>adr leaders, Kart&#257r Si&#7749gh Sarabh&#257, was formally unveiled and his supreme sacrifice in the cause of the nation's freedom eulogized. After a period of suppression by government, the G&#257ndh&#299-Irwin pact (1931) which was to lead to the abandonment by the Indian National Congress of the civil disobedience movement without securing the release of the youth involved was concluded. The hanging of Bhagat Si&#7749gh, R&#257jgur&#363 and Sukhdev on 23 March 1931 on charges of murdering J.P. Saunders earned the Sabh&#257 another short lease. The Naujav&#257n Bh&#257rat Sabh&#257 and the Kirt&#299 Kis&#257n Sabh&#257 held a joint session on 29 March in Kar&#257ch&#299 and led out a procession castigating especially Mah&#257tm&#257 G&#257ndh&#299 for what they described as his betrayal of the youth. The Sabh&#257 was declared unlawful by government on 10 September 1934 under section 16(I) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1908, after which it practically ceased to exist.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"><i>Kirt&#299</i>. May 1928<BR> <li class="C1"> Tara Chand, <i>History of the Freedom Movement in India</i>.<BR> <li class="C1"> Arjan Si&#7749gh, <i>Shah&#299d de Bol</i>. Delhi, 1962<BR> <li class="C1"> Jagj&#299t Si&#7749gh, <i>Ghadr P&#257r&#7789&#299 Lahir</i>. Delhi, 1979<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Sohan Si&#7749gh Josh<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>