Lala Lajpat Rai Born in Jagraon, on January,28, India in 1865.
He was an Indian author, politician and Indian freedom fighter from the British Raj.
He was the founder of Punjab National Bank and Lakshmi Insurance Company.
He was popularly known as Punjab Kesari (The Lion of Punjab).
Lajpat Rai led a procession with Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya to demonstrate against the Simon Commission and became the target of a lathi charge led by British police in 1928.
The Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Trust was formed in 1959 on the eve of his Centenary Birth Celebration, to promote education.
Writings by Lajpat Rai include Josiah Wedgewood - The Man And His Work, The United States of America: A Hindu's impressions and a study, History of the Arya Samaj, Swaraj and social change, England's Debt to India: A historical narrative of Britain's fiscal policy in India, The Problems Of National Education In India and Unhappy India: Being a reply to Katherine Mayo's "Mother India", published in 1928.
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