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Ghadar Party 1913
Formed by Lala Hardayal, Taraknath Das and Sohan Singh Bakhna
The war period witnessed the growth of revolutionary movement not only in India by outside of India as well by the Indians
The Ghadar Party was an international political movement consisting of expatriate Indians to overthrow British rule in India.
The party was built around the weekly paper “the Ghadar” which carried the caption Angrezi raj ka Dushman
Headquarters were at San Francisco
On 15 July 1913 in Astoria, Oregon, the United States of America the first official meeting of Ghadar party happened.
Ghadar (Urdu: “Revolution”), an early 20th-century movement among Indians, principally Sikhs living in North America, to end British rule in their homeland of India.
The movement originated with an organization of immigrants in California called the Hindustani Workers of the Pacific Coast.
Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, many of the Ghadrites returned to India and for several months during 1915 carried on terrorist activities in central Punjab.
Attempted uprisings were quickly crushed by the British.
After the war, the party in America split into Communist and anti-Communist factions.
The party was dissolved in 1948, after India had achieved independence.
Leaders – Baba Gurumukh Singh, Kartar Singh Saraba, Sohan Singh Bakhna, Rahmat Ali Shah, Bhai Paramanand and Mohamad Barkatullah
Komagata Maru Incident 1914
Komagata Maru was a Japanese steam ship that carried Sikh and Muslim immigrants from Punjab to Vancouver, Canada. But the ship was forced to return back to India by the Canadian authorities. The ship docked at Budge in Calcutta. The Britishers considered the passengers as dangerous political agitators and tried to arrest Baba Gurdit Singh from among them. Police opened fire on them and 19 passengers died in the incident
