Ghadar revolutionary hanged at Lahore in 1915
Kartar Singh Sarabha
A student at Berkeley, Kartar Singh Sarabha joined the Ghadar party at sixteen or seventeen, printed its Gurmukhi paper, and came home in 1914 to organise a rising among soldiers. He was hanged at Lahore on 16 November 1915.
In America
Born in 1896 at Sarabha in Ludhiana district, he sailed to San Francisco in 1912 and studied at Berkeley. He left university to work with Har Dayal on Ghadar.[EoS]
The rising
He sailed from the United States on 15 September 1914 and spread the network in Ludhiana district, visited army cantonments with Vishnu Ganesh Pingle, and helped make bombs. The plan was given away in February 1915. He escaped towards Kabul, came back, and was seized on 2 March at Wilsonpur. He was sentenced on 13 September and hanged on 16 November 1915.[EoS]
Images
Portrait of Kartar Singh Sarabha, credited on Commons to the Punjab State Archives. Its date has not been confirmed.
Unknown, Before 1915 if from life; not confirmed. Punjab State Archives (as credited on Commons). Public domain. Source
