: Lala Har Dayal and revolutions war cry from America #IndiaNEWS #National By Sukant DeepakA Sanskrit graduate from Delhis St Stephens College, two scholarships from Oxford in 1905, Professor of Indian

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Lala Har Dayal and revolutions war cry from America #IndiaNEWS #National
By Sukant DeepakA Sanskrit graduate from Delhis St Stephens College, two scholarships from Oxford in 1905, Professor of Indian Philosophy and Sanskrit at Stanford University, the force behind the Ghadar newspaper, which articulated Indias nationalist aspirations in the US the polymath revolutionary, Lala Har Dayal, dreamt of independent India with his eyes open.
Known to be a brilliant orator, when one of the immigrants from Punjab suggested to his group that Har Dayal be invited to the Pacific coast to seek his advice, the meeting changed everything for the Punjabi diaspora looking to overthrow the Raj in India.
Prof. Harish Puri, historian and expert on the Ghadar movement, tells IANS that the meeting opened up many new avenues. Those who attended realised that people were willing to donate funds, educate others, and do something for the country.
By this time, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar had written the book, The Indian War of Independence, which, after being translated into English, inspired several young revolutionary minds who had migrated abroad, including Madan Lal Dhingra, to be convinced that an armed revolt was the only way to liberate the country.
Born on October 14, 1884, Har Dayal suggested that it was important to educate the Indian people living on the USPacific Coast poltically. To achieve this end, he became the editor of a weekly paper in Urdu and Gurmukhi for educating the Indian immigrants on the Pacific Coast. It was named Ghadar, meaning mutiny.
The group behind the effort lived together, wrote articles and published the newspaper. The idea was to prepare for an armed revolt. These people had connections in the British Indian Army they had either served, deserted or left it. Also, many of them had cousins and relatives in the army, so they began to collect the names of everyone with connections in the armed forces back home.
The idea was to organise an uprising in 1917/1920 after preparing for seven to ten years. The British intelligence, however, knew exactly what was happening as these people were talking openly. At one point, it seemed that the British government knew more about them than they themselves, Prof Puri points out.
By March 1914, the U. S. government, under the influence of the British ambassador in Washington, D. C. , arrested Har Dayal. It was feared that he would be tried for anarchism, the political philosophy he espoused, or that the British government would send him back to India to be hanged.
Also, when a bomb was hurled at Lord Hardinge by Basanta Kumar Biswas on December 23, 1912, in Delhi, one of the accused in what was known as the Delhi Conspiracy Case, Bhai Balmukund, was a cousin of Bhai Parmanand, one of the founders of the Ghadar Party.

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