The 1915 Ghadar plan to free India from the British was a failure — but it sparked a revolution

"At minimum, this is what happens to revolutionaries. Freedom is not possible by doing status-quo stuff.“Sohan Singh Bhakna, second from the right, was arrested and jailed for his role in the Ghadar Parties abortive revolt against British rule in India. The former St. Johns mill worker, a major organizer and leader of the party, is shown here in 1938 at Amritsar Railway Station.” (Photo: Kesar Singh, Courtesy of Amarjit Chandan Collection. 

 Stockton Gurdwara San-Francisco 

The 1915 Ghadar plan to free India from the British was a failure — but it sparked a revolution

 Lala Har Dayal Singh Mathur was an Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter. He was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil ...

 St. Johns labor contractor Kanshi Ram, 

 Lala Har Dayal Singh Mathur was an Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter. He was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil ...

 Dr. Chakravarty – Ghadr affairs liaison between German & Indians, based in USA, 1916-1918

 Flag of the Ghadar Party

 Gadarites given capital punishment during 1915-16

 Gadarites given kale Pani or life time imprisonments during 1915-16

 Ghadar di Gunj, an early Ghadarite compilation of nationalist and socialist literature, was banned in India in 1913.

 Ghadar Newspaper (Urdu) Vol. 1, No. 22, March 24, 1914

100 Years  of Ghadar Movement

Ghaddar Memorial

The original headquarters of the Ghadar Party are in San Francisco where a new building erected after the demolition of 5 Wood Street preserves the Ghadar legacy. However as a majority of Ghadarites were Punjabis, it was a befitting that Punjab should house the main memorial to the Ghadar heroes. As India attained freedom in 1947, the surviving Ghadarites decided to erect a suitable memoir for their colleagues. The site chosen was Jalandhar in Doaba and construction of the Memoir was started by buying a prime land in 1955. Its foundation stone was laid on 17th November 1959 by a Ghadr veteran, Amar Singh Sandhwan

 Sikh settlers on board the Komagata Maru in Vancouver

Early Sikh Immigrants to America. (

 Ram chandra publisher of the gadar newspaper 

 Kartar Singh Sarabha

 Komagata Maru, guarded by Rainbow Cruiser and police boats, leaving Vancouver

 Sikhs working the railroad, late 1890s

 Singapore mutiny execution 

 The Ghadar movement received a semblance of a central leadership when Rash Behari Bose took on the mantle in 1915. After the revolution failed, he escaped to Japan, where he got married and went on to set up t

The Printing Press of Newspaper Ghaddar