Pandit Kanshi Ram Explained

Honorific Prefix:Pandit
Kanshi Ram
Birth Date:13 October 1883
Birth Place:Marauli Kalan, Punjab Province, British Raj, India (Present day Rupnagar District, Punjab)
Death Place:Lahore, Punjab Province, British India
(now Punjab, Pakistan)
Death Cause:Execution by hanging
Movement:Indian Independence movement, Ghadar Conspiracy
Organization:Ghadar Party

Pandit Kanshi Ram (13 October 1883 – 27 March 1915) was an Indian revolutionary who, along with Har Dayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna, was one of the three key members in founding the Ghadar Party. He served as the treasurer of the party from its foundation in 1913 to 1914. In 1914, Ram returned to India as a part of the Ghadar Mutiny, which attempted to trigger mutinies in the British Indian Army during World War I. He was arrested in the aftermath of the failed February plot and later tried in the Lahore conspiracy trial. Ram was charged, along with Kartar Singh Sarabha and Vishnu Ganesh Pingle, and executed on 27 March 1915.

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