Ram Chandra Bharadwaj

Ram Chandra Bharadwaj

Ram Chandra Bharadwaj, also known as Pandit Ram Chandra was the president of the Ghadar Party between 1914 and 1917. As a member of the Ghadar Party, Ram Chandra was also one of the founding editors of the Hindustan Ghadar and a key leader of the party in its role in the Indo-German Conspiracy. He assumed the role of the president of the party following Lala Har Dayal's departure for Switzerland in 1914 and, along with Bhagwan Singh and Maulvi Mohammed Barkatullah, was key in rallying the support of the South Asian community in the Pacific Coast in the wake of the Komagata Maru incident for the planned February mutiny. Ram Chandra was assassinated on 24 April 1918 on the last day of the Hindu–German Conspiracy Trial by Ram Singh, a fellow defendant who believed that Ram Chandra was a British agent.

References

• Echoes of Freedom:South Asian pioneers in California 1899-1965. University of California, Berkeley. Bancroft Library.
• [www.aicc.org.in/role_of_press_in_india’s_struggle_for_freedom.php Role of Press in India's Struggle for Freedom]. The Indian National Congress. Accessed 22 November 2007.
• Saga of indomitable courage. Ivninderpal Singh. The Tribune, India. Accessed 22 November 2007.
• Gadar Memorial Center, San Francisco.
• Hoover, Karl. (1985), "The Hindu Conspiracy in California, 1913-1918. German Studies Review, Vol. 8, No. 2. (May, 1985), pp. 245-261", German Studies Review, German Studies Association, ISSN 0149-7952.
• Brown, Giles (1948), "The Hindu Conspiracy, 1914-1917.The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 17, No. 3. (Aug., 1948), pp. 299-310", Pacific Historical Review, University of California Press, ISSN 0030-8684.
• Puri, Harish K (1980), "Revolutionary Organization: A Study of the Ghadar Movement. Social Scientist, Vol. 9, No. 2/3. (Sep. - Oct., 1980), pp. 53-66", Social Scientist, doi:10.2307/3516925, ISSN 0970-0293, JSTOR 3516925.

External links

• Ram Chandra Bharadwaj materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)