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Nidhan Singh Chugha
Nidhan Singh Chugha (June 1855 – 6 December 1936) was a Ghadar Movement, Ghadarite leader. He was considered one of the most dangerous and prominent Ghadarites by the British authorities. Biography Early life Nidhan Singh was born in 1855 in the village of Chugha in modern-day Moga district, Punjab, India, Punjab to a father named Sundar Singh. One source states he was born earlier in 1851. Move to China In 1882, Nidhan departed India for Shanghai, where he was employed as a watchman and later became the treasurer of the Gurdwara Shanghai, local gurdwara. He had helped construct the local gurdwara. Whilst Sikhism in China, in China, Nidhan Singh married an Chinese people, ethnic Chinese woman according to Anand Karaj, Sikh religious rites, having one son with her whom they named Bijay Singh. Nidhan Singh married the Chinese lady in August 1909 on a Sunday in Shanghai at the Dongbaoxing Road Gurdwara. His Chinese bride was a native of Pootung (Pudong), had a well-kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghadar Movement
The Ghadar Movement was an early 20th century, international political movement founded by expatriate Indians to overthrow British rule in India. The early movement was created by conspirators who lived and worked on the West Coast of the United States and Canada, but the movement later spread to India and Indian diasporic communities around the world. The official founding has been dated to a meeting on 15 July 1913 in Astoria, Oregon, with the Ghadar headquarters and Hindustan Ghadar newspaper based in San Francisco, California. Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, some Ghadar party members returned to Punjab to incite armed revolution for Indian Independence. Ghadarites smuggled arms into India and incited Indian troops to mutiny against the British. This uprising, known as the Ghadar Mutiny, was unsuccessful, and 42 mutineers were executed following the Lahore Conspiracy Case trial. From 1914 to 1917 Ghadarites continued underground anti-colonial actions with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
