India, Aug. 8 -- LUCKNOW As India commemorates the centenary of the Kakori Train Action - one of the most audacious episodes of the freedom struggle - the most iconic artifact from the event, a heavy iron safe looted by revolutionaries on August 9, 1925, remains intact, yet mostly ignored, at a little-known museum at the Kakori railway station.

Often referred to as a "guard box", the sturdy cast iron chest, sits preserved in a corner of the museum under Northern Railway (NR). It was this very box that freedom fighters, led by Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqullah Khan, targeted while halting a train to seize British treasury money, a move that shook the Colonial government.

A century later, the box survives, but only in obscurity. The museu...