Ghadar di gunj

Ghadar di Gunj

Ghadar di Gunj (Punjabi: ਗ਼ਦਰ ਦੀ ਗੂੰਜ, غدر دی گنج, translation: Echoes of Mutiny) is a compilation of nationalist and socialist literature that was produced in the early stages of the Ghadar movement in the early 20th century.[1][2]

Published by the Hindustan Ghadar press in the Ghadar weekly from San Francisco in 1913–14, the literature consists of a collection of songs and poems in Gurumukhi and Shahmukhi and covered addressed the political situation in India. Pamphlets titles Ghadar di Goonj and Talwar were also produced at this time for circulation in India. These were deemed seditionist publications by the British Indian government and banned from publication and circulation in India.

References

  1. ↑ Deol, Amrit. (2022). Echoes of protest: The role of art and literature in the Farmers and Laborers Protest. Sikh Formations, 18(1–2), 225–230. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2082197 Quote: "While organizing a revolution against the British Raj the early decades of the twentieth century, members of the Ghadar Party published the Ghadar-di-Gunj, a series of poetry collections which often connected the anticolonial struggles of those in Punjab and abroad to the narratives of Sikh leaders, like Guru Gobind Singh, Guru Nanak, and political leaders, like Maharaja Ranjit Singh."
  2. ↑ Puri, Harish K. “Revolutionary Organization: A Study of the Ghadar Movement.” Social Scientist, vol. 9, no. 2/3, 1980, pp. 53–66. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3516925. Accessed 11 May 2026.
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