Vijay Singh Pathik

Vijay Singh Pathik
Vijay Singh Pathik
Born	Village Guthawali, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India
Nationality	Indian
Other names	Bhoop Singh, Rashtriya Pathik
Parent(s)	Kamal Kunwari (Mother) Hamir Singh Gurjar(Father)

Vijay Singh Pathik alias Bhoop Singh Gurjar (1882–1954), popularly known as Rashtriya Pathik, was indian revolutionay. He was among the first revolutionaries from the state who lit the torch of freedom movement in the state. Much before Mohandas K. Gandhi initiated the Satyagrah movement, Pathik experimented during the Bijolia’s Kisan agitation. His real name was Bhoop Singh Gurjar, but after being implicated in the Lahore conspiracy case in 1915, he changed his name to Vijay Singh Pathik. His grandfather's sacrifice in the struggle of 1857 in Bulandshahr district, affected him deeply to be freedom fighter and rovolutionis. His descendants now live in Delhi.

he was born on 1882, in a Gurjar family in Village Guthawali, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India. His father's name was Hamir Singh Gurjar and mother's name Kamal Kunwari. . His father also took active part in the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 and got arrested many times. The name of his grand father was Inder Singh, who was Prime Minister (Diwan) of Malagarh principality (Riyasat) who was killed by Britishers while fighting in First Freedom Struggle of 1857 in Bulanshahr (U.P.)

He joined revolutionary organisation in his teenage and took active part against British rule in India. Pathikji’s non-cooperation movement was so successful that Lokmanya Tilak wrote a letter to Maharana Fateh Singh to meet the demand of the Bijoliya agitators. Mahatma Gandhi sent his secretary Mahadev Desai to study the movement. It was Pathikji who fought for the cause of united Rajasthan and had taken up the issue with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel. He was jailed for having led the Kisan agitation in Bijoliya. The Kisan Panchayat, Mahila Mandal and Yuvak Mandal invited Pathik to come and lead them. Women of Mewar started to get respect from their folk men. Pathik made people feel that women and men equality is necessary to develop a prosperous society.