The Ghadar Movement and the 1915 Mutiny Plan
On the night of 19 February 1915, across the province of Punjab, British authorities took the keys of every weapons depot out of Indian hands and replaced every Indian sentry with a European guard. The Raj had discovered a planned revolt inside its own armed forces, one that began seven thousand miles away in the lumber camps and farms of the Pacific Northwest.
This documentary traces the Ghadar Movement: the exclusion laws faced by Punjabi migrants in Canada and the United States, the Komagata Maru, the network built by Lala Har Dayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna, the alliance with German intelligence in the First World War, and the uprising led by Rash Behari Bose and the 19-year-old Kartar Singh Sarabha.
Read the full essay
Mutiny Is Our Name: The Ghadar Party and the Conspiracy of February 1915, with full sources.
