On this day, 17 August 1909, Indian revolutionary Madan Lal Dhingra was executed by the British for his assassination of Sir Curzon Wyllie, an army officer and head of the secret police, who was trying to uncover and defeat anti-colonial activists. While Dhingra was supported by anarchist Guy Aldred, who was sentenced to 12-months’ hard labour for publishing a sympathetic article about him, Mohandas Gandhi condemned him. On trial, he refused to acknowledge the authority of the court, and stated “I hold the English people responsible for the murder of eighty millions of Indian people in the last fifty years, and they are also responsible for taking away ₤100,000,000 every year from India to this country.”
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