Lala Lajpat Rai was one of the outstanding leaders of modern India,a contemporary of Dadabhai Naoroji, Tilak, Gokhale and Gandhi. Hispublic life spanned the last decade of the nineteenth century andthe first three decades of the twentieth century. He practised 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 197 created a great sensation in India. He spent the waryears (1914-18) in the United States propagating the Indian casefor \n