- Pandit Kanshi Ram
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caption= Pandit Kanshi Ram
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movement=Indian Independence movement ,Ghadar Conspiracy
organizations=Ghadar Party Pandit Kanshi Ram was an Indian revolutionary who, along with
Har Dayal andSohan Singh Bhakna was one of the three key members in founding theGhadar Party . He served as the treasurer of the party from its foundation in 1913 to 1914. In 1914 Kanshi Ram returned to India as a part of theIndo-German Conspiracy (Ghadar Conspiracy) which attempted to trigger mutinies in theBritish Indian Army duringWorld War I . He was arrested in the aftermath of the failedFebruary plot and later tried in theLahore conspiracy trial . Pandit Kanshi Ram was executed along withKartar Singh Sarabha andVishnu Ganesh Pingle on November 1916.References
* [http://in.rediff.com/news/1996/0412raj.htm Across a chasm of seventy five years, the eyes of these dead men speak to today's Indian American] ,
rediff.com .
* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/gadarcol.html The Hindustan Ghadar Collection] .Bancroft Library,University of California, Berkeley
* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/echoes/chapter7/chapter7.html Echoes of Freedom] . Hindustan Ghadar Collection.
*Harvard reference
Surname1 = Chhabra
Given1 = G S
Year = 2005
Title = Advance Study In The History Of Modern India (Volume-2: 1803-1920). pp595
URL = http://www.a1books.co.in/searchdetail.do?itemCode=818909307X
Publisher = Lotus Press
ISBN = 818909307X.
*Harvard reference
Surname1 = Gupta
Given1 = Amit K
Year = 1997
Title = Defying Death: Nationalist Revolutionism in India, 1897-1938.Social Scientist, Vol. 25, No. 9/10. (Sep. - Oct., 1997), pp. 3-27
URL =
Publisher = Social Scientist
ID = ISSN: 09700293.
*Harvard reference
Surname1 = Puri
Given1 = Harish K
Year = 1980
Title = Revolutionary Organization: A Study of the Ghadar Movement. Social Scientist, Vol. 9, No. 2/3. (Sep. - Oct., 1980), pp. 53-66 (p55)
URL =
Publisher = Social Scientist
ID = ISSN: 09700293.
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