Genda Lal Dixit

Genda Lal Dixit (30 November 1888 – 21 December 1920) was an Indian revolutionary who worked as a school-teacher at Auraiya in the district of Etawah, United Provinces, British India.

Dixit read newspaper articles written in protest by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and was inspired to emulate in United Province the celebrations of Shivaji Utsav in Maharashtra.

It was initially involved in distribution of seditious literature but he saw an opportunity to unite the dacoits of the region and proposed this in meetings held in the Bhind and Morena districts of Central Province.

He motivated the dacoits to participate in a guerilla war by retelling stories of Shivaji, a Maratha leader who had used similar tactics during the reign of the Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb.

The guidance of Dixit was sought by Ram Prasad Bismil, a fellow revolutionary who had established his own organization, called Matrivedi ("Altar of Motherland") founded and managed by Pandit Dev Narayan 'Bhartiye' in the city of Shahjahanpur, United Province.

Dixit offered to provide information relating to the robberies in United Province and was believed by the police, who locked him up with the Matrivedi youngsters.

His biography was written by Ram Prasad Bismil which was published in the Hindi magazine Prabha from Kanpur (issue of 3 September 1924) with the pen name of 'Agyat'.