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Trace the origin of the Ghadar movement and discuss its impact on the in India.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Other Strands in the National Movement

The Ghadar movement was the most ambitious attempt by overseas Indians to translate the grievances of racial discrimination abroad into an armed uprising back home — a movement whose origins lay entirely outside India but whose consequences reverberated through Indian revolutionary politics for two decades.

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  • Origins: Migration, Racism, and Radicalisation on the Pacific Coast
  • The Attempted Uprising and the Hindu-German Conspiracy
  • Assessing the Impact

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