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The Ghadar conspiracy of 1915 was a conspiracy formulated by the Ghadar Party to forment and trigger a Pan-Indian mutiny in the British Indian Army, from Punjab to Singapore, in February 1915 to overthrow The Raj in the Indian subcontinent. The conspiracy was ultimately thwarted as the British Indian intelligence successfully infiltrated the Ghadarite movement. However, by the time the key conspirators were arrested, the Singapore Garrison had mutinied. The conspiracy led to the Lahore conspiracy case in India and the Hindu German Conspiracy Trial in the USA.
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* 1 Ghadar Party
* 2 Conspiracy
* 3 Lahore Conspiracy trial
* 4 World War II
* 5 See Also
* 6 References
[edit] Ghadar Party
The Ghadar party was founded in 1913 in the United States and Canada by the Immigrant Indian population, of which a large proportion was comprised of people from Punjab. A prominent aim of the Ghadar philosophy was end of British Colonial Authority in India by means of force. The modes and aims of the Indian National Congress was viewed by the Ghadar as soft. Prominent Ghadarites included the likes of Lala Hardayal, Tarak Nath Das, Ram Chandra. Towards the end of 1913, the party was established contact with prominent Indian revolutionaries within India, including Rash Behari Bose, Vishnu Ganesh Pingle, Professor Barkat Ullah and others. An Indian edition of the Ghadar newspaper was established which essentially espoused the philosophy of Anarchism and Revolutionary terrorism.
[edit] Conspiracy
By 1914, plans for a pan-Indian revolution had been hatched and by October that year, large number of Ghadarites had started returning to India. The conspiracy was funded and armed to some extent by the Ghadarite links with the German government in the United States. Working within India, the Ghadarites were able to establish contact with sympathisers within the army. As the conspiracy proggressed, the D-Day was set to be February 20, 1915. However, the millitary intelligence had infiltrated Ghadar from the time the first of the conspirators left for India and Singapore and was aware of the details of the conspiracy. Sensing that their plans had been compromised, D-day was brought forward, but even these plans found their way to the intelligence. Plans for revolt by the the 130th Baluchi Regiment at Rangoon on 21 January were thwarted. On the 15th of February, the supposed day for the revolt, The 5th Light Infantry stationed at Singapore was the only unit to mutiny as The Raj responded with large scale arrests and suppression of the attempted revolts by the 26 Punjab regiment, 7 Rajput regiment, 130 Baluch regiment, 24 Jat Artillery and others. Mutinies in Firozpur, Mian Mir Lahore, Agra were suppressed and the key leaders of the conspiracy were arrested, while some managed to escape or evade arrest. Kartar Singh Sarabha, after escaping from Lahore, was arrested from Varanasi and Vishnu Ganesh Pingle from Meerut. Rash Behari Bose fled to Japan, a number of people including Giani Pritam Singh, Swami Satyananda Puri and others fled to Thailand or other sympathetic nations.
[edit] Lahore Conspiracy trial
In April 1915, the first trials of two hundred and ninetyone Ghadarites for their role in the conspiracy opened in Lahore. Of these The fortytwo were 42 were sentenced to death while another hundred and fourteen were sentenced to were transportation for life.
[edit] World War II
A number of prominent Ghadarites who fled the subcontinent in 1915 were instrumental in seeking Axis support, one of the most famous of which saw the formation of the Indian Independence League and ultimately the Indian National Army in South East Asia.
[edit] See Also
* 1915 Singapore Mutiny
* Hindu German Conspiracy Trial
* Ghadar Party
* Kartar Singh Sarabha
* Rash Behari Bose
* Giani Pritam Singh
* Indian Independence League
* Indian National Army
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[edit] References
* In the Spirit of Ghadar. The Tribune, Chandigarh
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