Pagdi Sambhal

At a farmers' meeting at Lyallpur in March 1907 a song against the canal laws became a movement, and by June its leaders were on a ship to Mandalay. This chapter follows the men history dropped: Bhagat Singh's uncle through forty years of exile, a one-armed editor who died in Persia, and the Bengali who carried the fight to Vancouver and handed it to Ghadar.

Lessons in this chapter

• Lyallpur, 3 March 1907 — The Colonisation Bill, a song sung at a farmers' meeting, and two men removed to Burma without a trial
• Dawn at Dalhousie — Ajit Singh, thirty-eight years in exile, and a death at Dalhousie on the morning of 15 August 1947
• The One-Armed Editor — Sufi Amba Prasad, Moradabad to Shiraz: the one-handed satirist who took his fight to Persia and never came back
• Free Hindustan — Taraknath Das, Vancouver 1908: the paper the Raj could not seize, and the Punjabi mill workers who turned it into Ghadar

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