In its inaugural issue, the paper boldly declared that, "today there begins in foreign lands, but in our country's language, a war against the English Raj. On November 1, the Party announced its emergence to the world by launching its first newspaper - Ghadar. Signifying the values of the free India that they envisioned, these men were members of the Ghadar Party, a revolutionary group of Indians who sought to overthrow the British empire through armed revolution. In November 1913 a group of Indian revolutionaries gathered at their newly established headquarters on a San Francisco hilltop to raise a red, yellow, and green flag that represented freedom, brotherhood, and equality.
This is a preview story from SAADA's forthcoming book, Our Stories: An Introduction to South Asian America.
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