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Ghadar Party, which played a vital Role in the freedom struggle of India, was started as a Movement by Indian Immigrants on the West (Pacific) Coast of North America at the beginning of the First World War. About 8,000 of these immigrants, 95% of them Sikhs, left Canada and the United States of America for India, to free India from the British rule. They were led by intellectuals like Har Dayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna. Har Dayal was the chief ‘Man of Words’ of the Ghadar movement. His ideological formulations were cast in the mould of a rather loose framework of ideas which prevailed among the Indian revolutionaries of that period. These may be drawn from his propaganda writings and his reflection in some of his articles, including the earlier ones reprinted by the Ghadar press. His leadership of the movement ended early. Ram Chandra who succeeded Har Dayal as the editor of the movement’s chief organ with an altered name of Hindustan Ghadar, functioned in a more or less similar ideological framework.