Sikh and other Indian migrants on North America's Pacific coast found the Ghadar Party in San Francisco and publish its newspaper in Punjabi and Urdu, calling for the overthrow of British rule in India; thousands sail home in 1914 to raise the rising that the Punjab authorities crush, and its martyrs enter Sikh memory.
Tagged: Sikh Sikh Diaspora
The Event
- Date
- 1913 (exact)
- Era
- Reform and Colonial; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- San Francisco; today California, United States
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sikh Diaspora
- Key figures
- Sohan Singh Bhakna, Lala Har Dayal
- Key texts
- The Ghadar newspaper
Primary Sources
- The Ghadar newspaper, 1913 onward
Secondary Sources
- Tatla, The Sikh Diaspora: The Search for Statehood (Washington, 1999)
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0527; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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