The Indian freedom struggle was never confined to India alone. In distant countries, it had an area up to America, Canada, Japan, Germany, Thailand, Iran, Ireland, Afghanistan, France, Russia. From the beginning of the twentieth century to 1945, committees were formed, revolutionaries were sent to India in ships, newspapers were published, revolution centers like India House were set up. Germany and joined hands with the anti-British powers in the Second World War. Azad Hindustan governments were formed. Militant organizations like Abhinav Bharat, Berlin Committee, Ghadar Party were formed. When the Royal Gaekwad of Vadodara went on a foreign tour, the British Government warned him that herewith we are sending a list of 50 people who are all working to overthrow the British Government, that it is not right for the Maharaja to meet him. And some of them were our Gujarati revolutionaries! A few names are worth knowing, all around us. One was Nitisen Dwarikadas. Son of Dwarikadas Lallubhai, a well-known textile merchant of the Mumbai tap market. Shyamji is the nephew of Krishnavarma's wife Bhanumati. Arrived in London in 1902 to study as a law student. Established Eastern Export Import Company. But the work is revolutionary activity. Till 1907, Shyamji was the minister of Krishnavarma's historic India House. It was in this India House that Veer Vinayak Rao Damodar Savarkar wrote the correct history about 1857. Madanlal Dhingra, a Punjabi youth here, shot and killed English officer Lord Curzon Wylie at the Royal Institute, standing idly by, caught by the police. Without argument. Without a lawyer, the trial got the death penalty. Nitishen printed a book in London detailing the trial of Lokmanya Tilak Maharaj in Mumbai and distributed 250 copies there. Indulal Yagnik also took some copies of Savarkar's '1857' books and sold them in London. He also met Nitisen. Nitisen's residence was 128, Holland Park Avenue. There used to be meetings of Indian revolutionaries. He also founded the Hind Nationalist Agency. He became a barrister at Lincoln's Inn. . And when Madanlal Dhingra was hanged in 1909, he applied for his body to be cremated as a Hindu. In response, the dead body of the martyr was not found, but the London police executed a warrant on him. Savarkar was captured from London and free-dived into the sea near Marseilles port in France, Nitisen had arrived from London to France for Savarkar's legal battle in the Hague court case when the French police caught him! This patriot also remained in exile like Shyamji, India could never return. Another Gujarati Jethalal Motilal Parikh. Kathlal (Kapadvanj) his birth place. Arrived in Britain, married there, became a barrister. On May 9, 1905, a gathering was held at an Indian restaurant in London. Why? The British made history of the 1857 War of Independence as a sepoy mutiny and a feat. To answer it, to show the correct history was celebrated here. (If the current Gujaratis want to destroy the history-zero, they should find these and other such places and make them memorial places) The chairman of this celebration J. M. Parikh means Jethalal of Kathlal was Parikh. Addressing the meeting, he said that the country has to move towards sacrifice rather than being a slave. (Will the people, leaders, schools and colleges of Kathlal know this?) He also helped the revolutionaries. Tilak arrived in Mumbai from England to fight the case of Maharaj. Founded Hind Biradari along with Bipin Chandra Pal. From the beginning of the twentieth century, these Gujaratis settled in London, Paris and New York and carried out revolutionary activities. Natwar Lal Vinayak Acharya Siddaraj-famous was from Patan. Manchersha Barjorji Godrej (one of the founders of Godrej Udyog) Govind and Chaturbhuj Amin (Virasad-Borsad) Shapurji Saklatwala of Ahmedabad. This last Parsi and Madame Kama of two ends. Shapurji was a staunch communist. When Indulal was sitting in London writing the biography of Shyamji Krishna Varma, Shapurji told him that Shyamji was an agent of the British. Indulal replied that I will write his life. I consider him a supreme patriot. The truth, lost or lost in the dark of history, is that the proud Gujaratis participated as passionately in satyagraha and non-cooperation as they did in the armed struggle of the cult of sacrifice. Here are just a few names of the Gujaratis who bravely carried out the freedom movement on British soil at the beginning of the twentieth century in London. Barrister Sardar Singh Rana, Nandlal Zaveri, Madam Kama are also three other brilliant names. Madame Cama was known as the 'Mother of the Revolution' throughout France. He wrote in Maxim Gorky's newspaper and Gorky's articles appeared in Madame Cama's Vande Mataram. What kind of characters were these in Historiography?
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