Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Ghadr movement
- Mutinies of pathans
- In 1914-15
- Causes
- fear of being led by a muslim officers
- troops in signapore heard
they were going to France
- they feared this as they had
heard about the high death rate
in the somme
- Result
- 37 ring leaders were publicly executed
- 300 sikhs commissioned a steam
boat to take them to Canada
- they were refused the entry to Canada
- went to Calcutta
- they were arrested as they arrived
- they were suspected of being
enemies of the british government
- because they came from the Canadian
Coastal Province of British Coloumbia
- It was home to many British opposing Indians
- British secret police now paid
closer attention to politics in India
- A planned uprising was stopped in 1915
- 5000 Ghadrites were arrested
- 200 jailed
- 46 hanged