German Interests in INDIA 1900 • Germany second largest trade partner for India. India exported cotton, rice, jute and wool. Imported sugar, iron, steel, paper, match sticks and synthetic color Later, India imported parts of railway carriages, machines and motor cars • Economic sector “German Asiatic Bank” was opened in Calcutta in 1896. • 1900, India(Calcutta) received half million Mark as an aid to the recovery from a devastating famine • 1911 German Crown Prince was conferred upon the Honour of Doctorate (at Calcutta universty. Jatin Mukerjee met Crown prince and asked arms for revolution German Interests in INDIA 1900,s • 1909; Germans and Indian revolutionaries in England. Per Savarkar “His warning to leave leave England 1n 1909 after mureder of Sir Curzon wyllie had actually come from a German Agent” ( Emile C Brown page 149). Gustav Steinhart was chief German Intelligence • 1911; Bernhardi a German General in his Book “ Germany Next war” indicates that Hindu Population of Bengal having nationalist and revolutionary tendency along with Pan- islamists might create very grave danger to capable of shaking the foundation of England ,s high position in the world. 1913 • Nov 15, 1913 – First Gadar writes “The Germans have a great sympathy with our movement and liberty because they and ourselves have a common enemy. In future Germany can draw assistance from us and they can render a great assistance also” *. • On Dec 31, 1913 – in a meeting in Sacramento German Consulate FrenZ Boop sitting on Stage Lala Hardyal l declares “If I am turned out of this country, I can make preparation for the mutiny in another country… I shall have to go to Germany to make arrangements for the approaching Gadhar “ • On Dec 31, 1913 sacramento meeting” Finally Lala hardyal told the audience that German was preparing to Go to war with England and that it was time to get ready to go to India for coming revolution” Har Dyal had read a portion of General Bernhardi’s “Germany next war” • Kartar singh sarabha chants“Chalo, Chaliye deshu yudda karan,E, ho akhirivachan, te farman hogiye” 1914 • “March 6th 1914 “Berliner Tageblatt” published Article ON “ England's Indian trouble” depicting gloomy Situation in India and representing that secret societies flourished and spread and were helped from outside. In California especially, it was said there appeared to be an organized enterprise for the purpose of providing India with arms and Explosives” • Large number of sign boards were posted in Ashram in San Francisco and sent to other places in the world which read , “Do not oppose the Germans” • Within six months Gadar literature was seen places throughout the empire; Egypt, South Africa, Fiji, Canada, British East Africa, and British Guiana Phillipenes, hong Kong, Thailand, Burma , Dutch, East Indies. 1914 December 1914 Graff Thurn German consulate at calcutta confirms German,s interest by his report as reported by carl Douglas UC Santa Barabara Phd thesis “It concludes that an India which has disintegrated into splinter states could offer its German (and Austrian) advisers the mineral and industrial wealth of the “richest land in the world”. What Germans wanted “ Krug Letter to German chancellor” • As Royal Navy was strong , Germany unable to strike at England with any real force. The alternative was to attack the enemy using artifice and intrigue. Krug followed the same reasoning in requesting the German army furnish him with a hundred well equipped soldiers to incite a guerilla war in India, as the natives of Spain had done in 1809 to oust Napoleon. Krug conceded that there was a great probability such a venture would fail. On the other hand, even a small coup in India could create a healthy scare in England which would presumably be noticed by Indian troops fighting and dying for their British masters. An itemized bill detailing the cost of starting Gadar in India with 100 persons was drawn up by the Berlin Committee • -Amount for Ghadar Party passage of 100 men @ 100 marks — 50,000 • -Passage & Preliminary expenses for 25 students @ 1200 marks — 30,000 • -Amount to be carried to India by 5 people @ 2000 marks — 10,000 • -Transport, instruction & travel expenses — 10,000 • -Expenses for two workers for 2 months @ 400 marks — 1,600 • -Passage from Berlin to India — 800 -52,000 • Germans assisted Ghadrites in funding for publishing anti-British Literature and its distribution worldwide, collection of arms and ammunition, and getting passports for free mobility through their consulates Gadarites Gets no money or any Arms • “First world war started on July 28, 1914. ‘Declaration of War’ (Ailan-i-Jung) in ‘Ghadar’ on 5 August 1914. • The first batch of Gadarites left for India on 19th August, 1914. Ram Chander said, your duty is clear. Go to India. Stir up rebellion in every corner of India. You will get money and arms when you reach there. • Brown, Giles (1948), The Hindu Conspiracy, 1914- 1917.The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 17, No. 3. (Aug., 1948), pp. 299-310, University of California Press, ISSN 0030-8684. • Joan M.Larsen, “The Hindu Conspiracy: A reassessment” Pacific historical review 1979 page 73 Spring-Rice to Bryan May 12, 1915; Spring-Rice to Lansing June 14, 1915; Johann von Berstorff to Lansing, July 2, 1915and Spring-Rice to Robert Lansing, Dec. 21, 1916; T. W. Gregory to Robert Lansing, Feb. 26, 1917, file 9-10-3, NA, RG 60 Sources on Hindu German Conspiracy . Don K Digan The Hindu Conspiracy in Anglo-American Relations during World War PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW 1971,Vol 40 pages 57-76 As secret British documents were closed to scholars under Britain's fifty- year rule. Don K Dagan who studied this movement closely writes “ .Great surprise to find that a large proportion of the political files of the American Department of the British Foreign Office-nearly half of the bound volumes for 1916-relate to the Indian seditionist problem”. . Andrew Parnaby POLITICAL POLICING IN CANADA CLASS, LAW AND THE BURDEN OF EMPIRE • PETER FREEMAN Zimmerman Telegram Revisited: A Reconciliation of the Primary Sources • Karl Douglas Hoover, PhD unpublished thesis, The German-Hindu Conspiracy in California 1913-1918, June 1989 • Hugh Johnston; Survellience of Indian nationalist 1908 to 1918 prophet.library.ubc.ca/ojs/index.php/bcstudies/article/. • Henry Landau, the Enemy Within; The Inside Story of German Sabotage in America, G.p. Putnam’s Sons, 1937