Lala Har Dayal
Scholar who left Oxford to organise Punjabi migrants in San Francisco and helped found the Ghadar Party.
Har Dayal was born in 1884 in Delhi and won a state scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, which he gave up in 1907 in protest against British rule.
He went to California, taught Indian philosophy at Stanford for a short time, and in 1913 helped found the Ghadar Party among Punjabi migrants, editing its newspaper. Arrested as an anarchist in 1914, he jumped bail and went to Switzerland and Germany.
He later gave up revolution, wrote books on Buddhism and ethics, and died in Philadelphia in 1939.
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Founding president of the Ghadar Party in America in 1913. Sentenced to death after the failed rising, he spent sixteen years in prison.
Ghadar Party revolutionary who returned from California to raise a rising against British rule. Hanged in Lahore at nineteen.