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| name = Sohan Singh Bhakna | | name = Sohan Singh Bhakna | ||
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| birth_place = [[Amritsar district|Khutrai Khurd]], [[British India]] | | birth_place = [[Amritsar district|Khutrai Khurd]], [[British India]] | ||
| death_place = [[Amritsar]], [[India]] | | death_place = [[Amritsar]], [[India]] | ||
| movement = [[Indian independence movement]], [[1907 Punjab unrest]], [[Ghadar Conspiracy]] | | movement = [[Indian independence movement]], [[1907 Punjab unrest]], [[Ghadar Conspiracy]]. | ||
| organization = [[Ghadar Party]], [[All India Kisan Sabha|Kisan Sabha | | organization = [[Ghadar Party]], [[All India Kisan Sabha|Kisan Sabha]]. | ||
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'''Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna''' (22 January 1870 – 21 December 1968)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCsdAAAAMAAJ&q=born|title=Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna :life of founder of Ghadar party|last=Josh|first=Sohan Singh|publisher=People Publishing House|year=1970|pages=ii}}</ref> was | '''Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna''' (22 January 1870 – 21 December 1968)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCsdAAAAMAAJ&q=born|title=Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna :life of founder of Ghadar party|last=Josh|first=Sohan Singh|publisher=People Publishing House|year=1970|pages=ii}}</ref> was a Sikh revolutionary , the founding president of the [[Ghadar Party]], and a leading member of the party involved in the [[Ghadar Conspiracy]] of 1915. Tried at the [[Lahore Conspiracy trial]], Sohan Singh served sixteen years of a life sentence for his part in the conspiracy before he was released in 1930. He later worked closely with the Indian labour movement, devoting considerable time to the [[All India Kisan Sabha|Kisan Sabha]]. | ||
==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
Sohan Singh was born on 22 January 1870 at the village of Khutrai Khurd, north of [[Amritsar]], which was the ancestral home of his mother Ram Kaur. His father was Bhai Karam Singh, who lived with his family in the village of Bhakna, 16 km southwest of [[Amritsar]]. He was born into a | Sohan Singh was born on 22 January 1870 at the village of Khutrai Khurd, north of [[Amritsar]], which was the ancestral home of his mother Ram Kaur. His father was Bhai Karam Singh, who lived with his family in the village of Bhakna, 16 km southwest of [[Amritsar]]. He was born into a sikh family. Young Sohan Singh spent his childhood at Bhakhna, where he received his childhood education in the village [[Gurudwara]] and by the [[Arya Samaj]]. He learnt to read and write in the [[Punjabi language]] at an early age, and was also instructed on the rudiments of [[Sikhism|Sikh]] traditions. Sohan Singh was married at the age of ten to Bishan Kaur, daughter of a landlord near [[Lahore]] by the name of Khushal Singh. Sohan Singh finished primary school at the age of sixteen in 1896, which he started at age eleven when primary school was first opened in his village, by which time he was also proficient in [[Urdu]] and [[Persian language|Persian]]. | ||
Sohan Singh became involved in the nationalist movement and the agrarian unrest that emerged in Punjab in the 1900s. He participated in the protests against the anti-Colonization Bill in 1906-07. Two years later, in February 1909, he left home to sail for the United States. After a two-month journey, Singh reached [[Seattle]] on 4 April 1909. | Sohan Singh became involved in the nationalist movement and the agrarian unrest that emerged in Punjab in the 1900s. He participated in the protests against the anti-Colonization Bill in 1906-07. Two years later, in February 1909, he left home to sail for the United States. After a two-month journey, Singh reached [[Seattle]] on 4 April 1909. | ||
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| isbn= 0-19-926191-1 | | isbn= 0-19-926191-1 | ||
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==Further reading== | |||
*{{cite book |last=Gould |first=Harold A. |author-link=Harold A. Gould |title=Sikhs, Swamis, Students and Spies: The India Lobby in the United States, 1900–1946 |year=2006 |orig-year=2005 |publisher=[[SAGE Publishing|SAGE Publications]] |isbn=978-0-7619-3480-6 |pages=176–180 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rS5mDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176}} | |||
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