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	The '''Peshawar Conspiracy Cases''' were a set of five legal cases which took place between 1922 and 1927 in [[British Raj\|British India]].<ref>{{~~Cite~~ web\|url=https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/list-of-famous-conspiracy-case-during-british-rule-in-india-1528455239-1\|title=List of Famous Conspiracy Cases during British Rule in India\|date=8 December 2020}}</ref>		The '''Peshawar Conspiracy Cases''' were a set of five legal cases which took place between 1922 and 1927 in [[British Raj\|British India]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/list-of-famous-conspiracy-case-during-british-rule-in-india-1528455239-1\|title=List of Famous Conspiracy Cases during British Rule in India\|date=8 December 2020}}</ref> The muhajirs, a group of [[Muslims]], were inspired by [[communist revolution]]s and went to the [[Soviet Union]] for training in 1920. Some of them returned to India in 1921 from [[Tashkent]] to incite a revolution. British intelligence got information about it from their foreign office and the police arrested the first batch of revolutionaries and sent them away to a sham trial.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Peshawar And Kanpur Conspiracy Cases\|url=http://cpiml.org/library/communist-movement-in-india/introduction-communist-movement-in-india/peshawar-and-kanpur-conspiracy-cases/\|access-date=2022-10-23\|website=Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)\|language=en-US}}</ref>

	The defendants in these cases had sneaked into British India from the [[Soviet Union]] to allegedly foment a proletarian revolution against British colonial rule. The colonial government feared that the defendants were entering India with the ~~purpose~~ of spreading [[Socialism\|socialist]] and [[Communism\|communist ~~ideas~~]] and supporting the [[Indian independence movement\|emerging independence movement]].<ref>{{~~Cite~~ journal\|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41854654\|jstor = 41854654\|~~last1~~ = Lieten\|~~first1~~ = Georges Kristoffel\|title = Reviewed work: Documents of the History of the Communist Party of India, 1917-1922, Vol. I Documents of the History of the Communist Party of India, 1923-35, Vol. II, G. Adhikari\|journal = The Indian Journal of Political Science\|year = 1975\|volume = 36\|issue = 1\|pages = 95–100}}</ref>		The defendants in these cases had sneaked into British India from the Soviet Union to allegedly foment a [[proletarian revolution]] against British colonial rule. The colonial government feared that the defendants were entering India with the intention of spreading [[Socialism\|socialist]] and [[Communism\|communist]] ideas and supporting the [[Indian independence movement\|emerging independence movement]].<ref>{{cite journal\|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41854654\|jstor=41854654\|last=Lieten\|first=Georges Kristoffel\|title=Reviewed work: Documents of the History of the Communist Party of India, 1917-1922, Vol. I Documents of the History of the Communist Party of India, 1923-35, Vol. II, G. Adhikari\|journal=The Indian Journal of Political Science\|year=1975\|volume=36\|issue=1\|pages=95–100}}</ref>

	It was not the only case which became popular and galvanized the imagination of the young population of the Indian subcontinent~~, there were similar~~ such cases~~. Among them,~~ the Kanpur Bolshevik Case of May 1924 ~~can be quoted as a substantiating case~~.<ref>{{~~Cite~~ web\|url=http://cpiml.org/library/communist-movement-in-india/introduction-communist-movement-in-india/peshawar-and-kanpur-conspiracy-cases/\|title = Peshawar and Kanpur Conspiracy Cases}}</ref>		It was not the only case which became popular and galvanized the imagination of the young population of the [[Indian subcontinent]]. Similar such cases included the [[Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy Case]] of May 1924.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://cpiml.org/library/communist-movement-in-india/introduction-communist-movement-in-india/peshawar-and-kanpur-conspiracy-cases/\|title=Peshawar and Kanpur Conspiracy Cases}}</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==
	* [[Communist Party of Pakistan]]		* [[Communist Party of Pakistan]]
			* [[Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy Case]]
			* [[Meerut Conspiracy Case]]

	==References==		==References==
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	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==
	*{{cite journal \|~~last1~~=Salim \|~~first1~~=Ahmed \|title=Freedom Movement and Peshawar Conspiracy Cases \|journal=Pakistan Perspectives \|date=2016 \|volume=21 \|issue=1 \|pages=29–48}}		* {{cite journal\|last=Salim\|first=Ahmed\|title=Freedom Movement and Peshawar Conspiracy Cases\|journal=Pakistan Perspectives\|date=2016\|volume=21\|issue=1\|pages=29–48}}

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	[[Category:Pakistan–Soviet Union relations]]		[[Category:Pakistan–Soviet Union relations]]
	[[Category:Communism in Pakistan]]		[[Category:Communism in Pakistan]]
	~~[[Category:History of Pakistan]]~~
	[[Category:1922 in international relations]]		[[Category:1922 in international relations]]
	[[Category:Soviet Union–United Kingdom relations]]		[[Category:Soviet Union–United Kingdom relations]]

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The '''Peshawar Conspiracy Cases''' were a set of five legal cases which took place between 1922 and 1927 in [[British Raj|British India]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/list-of-famous-conspiracy-case-during-british-rule-in-india-1528455239-1|title=List of Famous Conspiracy Cases during British Rule in India|date=8 December 2020}}</ref>

The defendants in these cases had sneaked into British India from the [[Soviet Union]] to allegedly foment a proletarian revolution against British colonial rule. The colonial government feared that the defendants were entering India with the purpose of spreading [[Socialism|socialist]] and [[Communism|communist ideas]] and supporting the [[Indian independence movement|emerging independence movement]].<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41854654|jstor = 41854654|last1 = Lieten|first1 = Georges Kristoffel|title = Reviewed work: Documents of the History of the Communist Party of India, 1917-1922, Vol. I Documents of the History of the Communist Party of India, 1923-35, Vol. II, G. Adhikari|journal = The Indian Journal of Political Science|year = 1975|volume = 36|issue = 1|pages = 95–100}}</ref>

It was not the only case which became popular and galvanized the imagination of the young population of the Indian subcontinent, there were similar such cases. Among them, the Kanpur Bolshevik Case of May 1924 can be quoted as a substantiating case.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cpiml.org/library/communist-movement-in-india/introduction-communist-movement-in-india/peshawar-and-kanpur-conspiracy-cases/|title = Peshawar and Kanpur Conspiracy Cases}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Communist Party of Pakistan]]

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite journal |last1=Salim |first1=Ahmed |title=Freedom Movement and Peshawar Conspiracy Cases |journal=Pakistan Perspectives |date=2016 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=29–48}}

[[Category:History of Peshawar]]
[[Category:Pakistan–Soviet Union relations]]
[[Category:Communism in Pakistan]]
[[Category:History of Pakistan]]
[[Category:1922 in international relations]]
[[Category:Soviet Union–United Kingdom relations]]
[[Category:1920s in British India]]
[[Category:1922 in British law]]
[[Category:Communist Party of India]]
[[Category:Indian independence movement]]

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