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18-590: There are 21 framed pictures of the Gadar Party leaders and martyrs on two opposite walls of the main hall. Twenty-two open bookshelves have an assortment of books and four showcases display some Ghadar Party material. Yugantar Circular was also name of weekly newspaper started by Har Dayal , secretary of Ghadr Party which was later named Ghadr as per decision taken in an Oregon meeting at Finnish Socialist Hall in Astoria Oregon for starting and opening

36-685: A great majority of whom were Sikhs, had started emigrating to the West Coast around the turn of the century. Having experienced hostility by the Canadians in Vancouver, they had already become disaffected with the British. Hardayal tapped into this sentiment of these energetic Sikhs and other Punjabis. Having developed an Indian nationalist perspective, he encouraged young Indians to gain scientific and sociological education. In April 1914, he

54-544: A very close friend of Lala Hardayal and the founder member of Bharat Mata Society (established in 1907), Lala Hanumant Sahai, did not accept the death as natural, he suspected it as poisoning. In 1987, the India Department of Posts issued a commemorative stamp in his honor, within the series of "India's Struggle for Freedom". Some of his books with available references are listed below: This 392-page work of Lala Hardayal consists of 7 chapters which deal with

72-871: The Berlin Committee , Jugantar , the Ghadar Party , as well as with prominent Muslim socialists including Maulavi Barkatullah . Aside from Oppenheim himself, recruits to the Bureau included Franz von Papen , later briefly the Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, Wilhelm Wassmuss (sometimes referred to as the German Lawrence), Gunther von Wesendonck , Ernst Sekunna and others. Oppenheim was replaced in 1915 by Schabinger von Schowingen, and later in 1916 by Eugen Mittwoch , internationally

90-580: The Bodhisattva doctrine as expounded in the principal Buddhist Sanskrit Literature. This book contains comprehensive notes and references besides a general index appended at the end. This book has been written in a particularly lucid style which exhibits scholarly acumen and the mastery of Lala Hardayal in literary art. It proved influential with Edward Conze , a German Marxist refugee from Nazi Germany who made Har Dayal 's acquaintance in London in

108-540: The 1915 Afghanistan Mission by Werner Otto von Hentig Under the leadership of the also internationally highly respected Mittwoch (who founded the semitic department at Hebrew University in 1924, and worked for British Intelligence in World War II, after he had to flee to London from Nazi persecution), the Nachrichtenstelle, which had to deal with the failure of the initial subversive campaigns, pursued

126-435: The 1930s. According to Swami Rama Tirtha , Lala Har Dayal was the greatest Hindu who ever came to America, a great sage and saint, whose life mirrored the highest spirituality as his soul reflected the love of the 'Universal Spirit' whom he tried to realize. In another appreciation Prof. Dharmavira has sketched the picture of Lala Har Dayal which is being quoted here in verbatim: Har Dayal dedicated his whole life to

144-808: The Muslims in India as well as around the world in the Middle east and in Egypt. It was involved in early Turkish plans for war and the Caliph's decision to declare Jihad . The bureau was involved in intelligence and subversive missions to Persia and to Afghanistan, and also attempted, along with the Berlin Committee, to recruit Indian soldiers in Mesopotamia. Its Persia operations were led by Wilhelm Wassmuss,

162-805: The Red Flag , he said they proposed "the establishment of Communism, and the abolition of private property in land and capital through an industrial organization and the general strike , ultimate abolition of the coercive organization of government". A little over a year later, this group was given 6 acres (24,000 m ) of land and a house in Oakland , where he founded the Bakunin Institute of California , which he described as "the first monastery of anarchism". In California, he soon developed contacts with Punjabi Sikh farmers in Stockton . Punjabis,

180-615: The eve of World War I dedicated to promoting and sustaining subversive and nationalist agitations in the British Indian Empire and the Persian and Egyptian satellite states. Attached to the German Foreign Office , it was headed by archaeologist Baron Max von Oppenheim and, during the war, worked intricately with the deposed Khedive Abbas II of Egypt , and Indian revolutionary organisations including

198-732: The events that ultimately came to be called the Hindu–German Conspiracy , including the Annie Larsen plot , Ghadar Conspiracy , Siam–Burma plan , attempts in Bengal as well as other lesser known plots in the Near east including of the western borders of British India and in Afghanistan. In addition to its subversive campaigns against British possessions in India, it also attempted to instigate instability in British possessions in

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216-543: The headquarters of Ghadr party in San Francisco and starting newspaper Ghadr with Sohan Singh Bhakna as President This article about a building or structure in San Francisco is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Har Dayal Lala Har Dayal Mathur ( Hindi :लाला हर दयाल ; 14 October 1884 – 4 March 1939) was an Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter. He

234-616: The inward and the outward battle was not inconsiderable and it was not confined to his early manhood, but was spread over his whole life. Lala Har Dayal had the Janak and Dadhichi touch and his life demonstrated that he had what it takes. Intelligence Bureau for the East The Intelligence Bureau for the East (German: Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient ) was a German intelligence organisation established on

252-477: The most respected and prestigious German orientalist (and also a respected Orthodox Jewish scholar), who recruited more liberal and cosmopolitan people for the Nachrichtenstelle such as Friedrich Schrader , his Swiss associate Max Rudolf Kaufmann or the young Nahum Goldmann (later President of the World Jewish Congress ). In its initial period, the bureau was intricately involved in almost all

270-481: The sacred cause of the motherland. Surely from such a person alone could one ask: "Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" Let us drink deep at this spring and wax glad and strong and brave in every nerve and fibre of our being. He was one of the race of those who wrote the New Era in blood. His course was laborious, truthful, simple, independent, noble; and all these in an eminent degree. His experience of

288-1205: Was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil Service . His simple living and intellectual acumen inspired many expatriate Indians living in Canada and the U.S. in their campaign against British rule in India during the First World War . Har Dayal Mathur was born in a Hindu Mathur Kayastha family on 14 October 1884 at Delhi. He studied at the Cambridge Mission School and received his bachelor's degree in Sanskrit from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and his master's degree also in Sanskrit from Punjab University . In 1905, he received two scholarships of Oxford University for his higher studies in Sanskrit: Boden Scholarship , 1907 and Casberd Exhibitioner, an award from St John's College , where he

306-652: Was arrested by the United States government for spreading anarchist literature and fled to Berlin , Germany. In Berlin he became instrumental to the formation of the Berlin Committee (later: Indian Independence Committee) and cooperated with the German Intelligence Bureau for the East . He died in Philadelphia on 4 March 1939. In the evening of his death, he delivered a lecture as usual where he had said: "I am in peace with all". But

324-653: Was studying. He moved to the United States in 1911, where he became involved in industrial unionism . He had also served as secretary of the San Francisco branch of the Industrial Workers of the World alongside Fritz Wolffheim , (later a National Bolshevik after he had left IWW and joined the Communist Workers' Party of Germany ). In a statement outlining the principles of the Fraternity of

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