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| name = Bhagat Ram Talwar<br />
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| relatives = Gurdas Mal Talwar (father; died 4 July 1931), Mathura Devi Talwar (mother), Hari Kishan Talwar (elder brother)<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| known_for = Active role in India's freedom struggle<br />
| spouse = Ram Kaur<br />
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'''Bhagat Ram Talwar''' (between 10–31 December 1908 — 1983) played an active role in [[India's freedom struggle]], and was most known for his role as the friend of Netaji [[Subhas Chandra Bose]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mid-day.com/smd/2004/aug/90031.htm|accessdate=11 September 2012|title=A footnote in history<br />
|publisher=Mid-day}}</ref> Talwar helped Bose escape from house arrest in January, 1941. They made the dangerous journey from [[Calcutta]] to [[Kabul]] and Netaji eventually made it to [[Nazi Germany|Germany]]. Unknown to Bose, Talwar was a spy for at least five countries, namely, [[Nazi Germany|Germany]], [[Empire of Japan|Japan]], [[USSR]], [[Fascist Italy (1922-1943)|Italy]] and [[British Raj|British-ruled India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/netaji/purabi2.htm|title=The Enigma of Subhas Chandra Bose|accessdate=11 September 2012|publisher=Hindustan Times|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430041947/http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/netaji/purabi2.htm|archivedate=30 April 2013}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/the-spy-who-came-from-the-cold/|title=The Spy Who Came From the Cold|last=Tharakan|first=Hormis|date=2017-05-31|website=Open The Magazine|language=en-GB|url-status=live|access-date=2019-11-28}}</ref> Also known by the alias ''Silver'', he was a freedom fighter and a peasant leader from the [[North-West Frontier Province]] in present-day Pakistan, and thus identified himself as a "[[Hindu]] [[Pashtuns|Pathan]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://qz.com/india/948392/why-did-winston-churchill-hate-the-hindus-and-prefer-the-muslims/|title=Why did Winston Churchill hate the Hindus and prefer the Muslims?|work=Quartz India|first=Mihir|last=Bose|date=4 April 2017|accessdate=29 April 2020}}</ref> He was of [[Punjabi Hindus|Punjabi]] descent.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/SI6fMdzWdZCljhosiArPAK/Silver-The-man-who-betrayed-Subhas-Chandra-Bose.html|title=Silver: The man who betrayed Subhas Chandra Bose|work=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]]|date=27 May 2017|accessdate=2 June 2020|first=Manu S.|last=Pillai|authorlink=Manu S. Pillai|quote=It was, in fact, on the edge of this landscape, near Peshawar, that our morally agnostic protagonist was born in 1908, into a family of Punjabi descent.|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603092747/https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/SI6fMdzWdZCljhosiArPAK/Silver-The-man-who-betrayed-Subhas-Chandra-Bose.html|archivedate=3 June 2017}}</ref> He was an agent and prominent figure of the [[Kirti Kisan Party]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Talwars of Pathan Land and Subhash Chandra's Great Escape|last=Talwar|first=Bhagat Ram|publisher=People's Publishing House|year=1976}}</ref><br />
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Bhagat Ram Talwar's older brother, [[Hari Kishan Talwar]] (born 2 December 1908), was sentenced and hanged on 9 June 1931 by the British for his assassination attempt on the British Governor of Punjab, [[Geoffrey Fitzhervey de Montmorency|Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/the-lost-letter/article5818600.ece|title=The Lost Letter|last=Lal|first=Chaman|date=22 March 2014|access-date=28 December 2016|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref><br />
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[[Mihir Bose]] wrote a book on Bhagat titled "The Indian Spy: The True Story of the Most Remarkable Secret Agent of World War II" published by [[Aleph Book Company|Aleph]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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