Sohan Singh Bhakna
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Sohan Singh Bhakna
● Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna was born in January, 1870 AD in a prosperous farmer's family in a village named 'Khutrai Khurd' in Amritsar district, Punjab.
● In the later years of life, an honorific, Baba (used particularly in Punjab for a respectable aged person) was attached to his name.
● He is being respectfully remembered as Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna by people all over the world.
● In 1909, he migrated to the United States of America in search of greener pastures. Here, he suffered racial discrimination and humiliation from the native white citizens.
● With the aim of freeing India from the outhrow of British rule, he founded the 'Gadar Party' along with other Indian expatriates.
• He invited Lala Har Dayal to take the responsibility of editing the party's mouthpiece 'Ghadar'.
● With the outbreak of World War I, he along with several Ghadar Party members returned to India.
● He was arrested in Calcutta and tried in the 'Lahore Conspiracy Case'.
● The judges sentenced him to death but later Lord Hardinge, the then Viceroy commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment.
● After suffering in Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ Cellular and other jails of, he was released in 1930.
● He took part in left and peasant movements against the British.
● After independence, he lived in his house in Bhakna.
● He died on December 20, 1968.