Komagata Maru Incident In 1914, the Japanese steamship “Komagata Maru” carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, a region of British India, sailed from Hong Kong, a component of the British Empire, to Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada, stopping in Shanghai, China, before continuing to Yokohama, Japan. Because only 24 of the passengers were permitted entry into …

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Ghadar Movement Indian immigrants who had immigrated to the United States of America established the Ghadar Movement, a political revolutionary group. Sikhs played a major role in the Ghadar Party’s creation. The foundation for an Indian political organisation in the United States and Canada was set by prominent leaders like Sohan Singh, Kartar Singh, Abdul …

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Anushilan Samiti A group called Anushilan Samiti advocated using revolutionary violence to overthrow the British Empire in India during the first three decades of the 20th century. It had two branches: the Jugantar Group in Kolkata and the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti in Dhaka. The Samiti was influenced by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s “Anandmath,” as well as …

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