Rajendra Lahiri

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Rajendra Lahiri (1892 - December 17, 1927) (also known as Rajendra Nath Lahiri, Hindi: राजेन्द्र लाहिड़ी) was an Indian revolutionary who participated in various revolutionary activities of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association aimed at ousting the British from India.

He was born in village Mohanpur in District Pabna in erstwhile Bengal (now in Bangladesh). His father was Kshitish Mohan Lahiri. Rajendra Lahiri owned a big estate in Varanasi, but was very active in revolutionary and nationalist activities against the British rule. He participated in the Dakshineshwar bomb case and was sentenced to jail. He took part in the famous Kakori train robbery on August 9, 1925. He was arrested and tried, alongwith several other revolutionaries, in the year-long case. He was found guilty and hanged in the Gonda jail on December 17, 1927.