ACCORDING
to ‘Swadheenata Sangram aur Haryana’ written by famous historian Devi
Sankar Prabhakar, Fatehabad was under the rule of Bhatti sardars before the
English took over in 1801. During the revolt of 1857, Mohammad Azam fought a
fierce battle against the English near Hansi. But he was defeated by the English
forces on September 6. The Shahzada reorganised his forces and continued his
struggle against the English regime. The Shahzada took on the English forces led
by Courtland at Mangali, but he too, was defeated. He again led an armed battle
against the English forces near Jamalpur, but this time again he failed. The
area came completely under the English regime.
The Bhatti sardars of Fatehabad, who had revolted
against the English regime, were gunned down by the English. Hundreds of
revolutionaries were crushed under road-rollers. Many of the local residents
joined the Azad Hind Force under Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Badri Parsad Nirmal was the first revolutionary
from Fatehabad who was arrested for giving inflammatory speeches against the
English regime. He was arrested in 1921 and after the orders of the court, he
had to remain in a jail at Mianwali, now in Pakistan. Besides Nirmal, Lekh Ram
from Dhingsaran village, Pandit Chiranji Lal from Banawali village, Pat Ram from
Kirdan village, Shankar Lal from Pilimandori village and Pandit Sooraj Bhan were
some other revolutionaries from Fatehabad, who took active part in the freedom
struggle
