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Indian Unrest

CHAPTER XI
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Hence in the literature of unrest one frequently comes across the strangest juxtaposition of names, Hindu deities, and Cromwell and Washington, and celebrated anarchists all being invoked in the same breath.
Equally foreign in its origin has been the establishment of various centres of revolutionary activity outside of India.

In America there appear to be two distinct organizations both having their headquarters in California, and branches in Chicago, New York, and other important cities.

The Indo-American Association runs an English periodical, _Free Hindustan_, which was originally started in Canada and thence transferred to Seattle when it began to attract the attention of the Canadian authorities.

The moving spirits are students, chiefly from Bengal, who have found ready helpers amongst the Irish-American Fenians.
They have also been able to make not a few converts amongst the unfortunate British Indian immigrants who suffered heavily from the anti-Asiatic campaign along the Pacific slope, and some of these converts, being Sikhs and old soldiers, were of special value, as through them direct contact could be established with the regiments to which they had belonged, or, at any rate, with the classes from which an important section of the native army is recruited.

Large quantities of seditious leaflets, circulated broadcast three years ago amongst Sepoys, were printed in America.


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