KANSHI RAM PANDIT

Kanshi Ram, son of Pandit Ganga Ram Joshi was born at village Maroli (near Kharar). After his high school educayion he joined service as assistant in an office at Ambala. Later he moved to the USA. He was one of the key members who founded the Ghadar Party in 1913. He served as the treasurer of the party from its foundation in 1913 to 1914. On 12 November 1914, Kanshi Ram left USA for Punjab, to launch movement for freedom of India. He was arrested in the aftermath of the failed February plot and later tried in the Lahore conspiracy trial. Kanshi Ram was charged along with Kartar Singh Sarabha and Vishnu Ganesh Pingle and was given death sentence. He was hanged on 27 March 1915.

(Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer)