Pandit Kanshi Ram (13 October 1883 – 27 March 1915) was an Indian

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who, along with

Har Dayal Lala Rudra Dayal Mathur ( Punjabi: ਲਾਲਾ ਹਰਦਿਆਲ; 14 October 1884 – 4 March 1939) was an Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter. He was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil Service. His si ...

and

Sohan Singh Bhakna Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna (4 January 1870 – 20 December 1968) was a Sikh revolutionary, the founding president of the Ghadar Party, and a leading member of the party involved in the Ghadar Conspiracy of 1915. Tried at the Lahore Conspiracy ...

, was one of the three key members in founding the

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. He served as the treasurer of the party from its foundation in 1913 to 1914. In 1914, Ram returned to

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as a part of the

Ghadar Mutiny The Ghadar Mutiny, also known as the Ghadar Conspiracy, was a plan to initiate a pan-India mutiny in the British Indian Army in February 1915 to end the British Raj in India. The plot originated at the onset of World War I, between the Ghadar Pa ...

, which attempted to trigger mutinies in the

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during

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. He was arrested in the aftermath of the failed February plot and later tried in the Lahore conspiracy trial. Ram was charged, along with

Kartar Singh Sarabha Kartar Singh Sarabha (24 May 1896 — 16 November 1915) was a prominent Indian revolutionary and a key figure in the Ghadar Movement against the British Raj. Born in Sarabha village, Ludhiana, he went to the U.S. for studies but became deeply i ...

and

Vishnu Ganesh Pingle Vishnu Ganesh Pingle (2 January 1888 – 16 November 1915) was an Indian revolutionary and a key member of the Ghadar Party. Born in Pune, Maharashtra, he studied engineering at the University of Washington before returning to India to lead revo ...

, and executed on 27 March 1915.

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The Hindustan Ghadar Collection
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Echoes of Freedom
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