Question

The Gurumukhi paper called Swadesh Sewak, which advocated social reforms and also asked Indian troops to rise in revolt against the British was brought out by _______ from Vancouver during the freedom struggle.
1. GD Kumar
2. Taraknath Das
3. Lala Hardayal
4. Ahit Singh

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : GD Kumar

The correct answer is GD Kumar.

• G.D.Kumar set up a Swadesh Sevak Home in Vancouver on the lines of the India House in London and also began to bring out a Gurumukhi paper called Swadesh Sewak which advocated social reform and also asked Indian troops to rise in revolt against the British.
• In 1910, Tarak Nath Das and G.D. Kumar, by now forced out of Vancouver, set up the united India house in Seattle and U.S.A.
• The first fillip to the revolutionary movement was provided by the visit to Vancouver, in early 1913, of Bhagwan Singh, a Sikh priest who had worked in Hong Kong and the Malay states.
• He openly preached the gospel of the violent overthrow of British rule and urged the people to adopt Vande Mataram as a revolutionary salute.
• Bhagwan Singh was expelled from Canada after his stay of 3 months.

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• Taraknath Das was an Indian revolutionary and internationalist scholar.
  • He was a pioneering immigrant on the west coast of North America and discussed his plans with Tolstoy while organizing the Asian Indian immigrants in favour of the Indian independence movement.
• Lala Hardayal was one of the prominent revolutionaries who founded the Ghadr Party in the US to carry out an armed revolt against the British in India.