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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- The Ghadar Movement was an early-twentieth-century revolutionary campaign founded by Indian emigrants in North America that sought to overthrow British rule in India through armed insurrection.
- Who founded the Ghadar Movement and when?
- How did the First World War shape the Ghadar Movement?
- How does the Ghadar Movement differ from the Bengal revolutionary groups?
- Why is the Ghadar Movement significant for UPSC modern history?

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In 1915, Ghadar revolutionary Kartar Singh Sarabha was hanged at age nineteen after the Lahore Conspiracy Case trials, following the British suppression of the planned 21 February uprising in Punjab.

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