Lala Lajpat Rai was one of the outstanding leaders of modern India,a
contemporary of Dadabhai Naroji, Tilak, Gokhale and Gandhi. Hispublic life
spanned the last decade of the nineteenth century andthe first three decades of
the twentieth century. He practiced lawat the Lahore Chief Court and built up a
lucrative practice, butwas drawn very early into public activities pertaining
toreligious, educational and social reforms and then into nationalistpolitics.
Lajpat Rai was one of the foremost leaders of the IndianNational Congress. His
arrest and deportation without trial toBurma in 1907 created a great sensation
in India. He spent the waryears (1914-18) in the United States propagating the
Indian casefor