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1. India's Forgotten...? Freedom Fighter...?
Lakhs of people sacrificedtheir lives to liberate the country. Thousands of
people left their homes and unfortunately many of them have been forgotten
by the country. One such promising revolutionary was Vishnu Ganesh
Pingale. He was a member of the GhadarParty. He was sentencedto death in
1915 in the Lahore ConspiracyCase andthe Hindu-German Conspiracy. For
the independence of India, the sons of Mother India who sacrificedlaughingly,
Hardayal ji had founded the 'Gadar Party' for the independence of India.
Flag of the Ghadar Party The Ghadar Party was an organizationformed with
the aim of making the subordinate India independent from the British. It was
built by the Indians of America and Canada on 25 June 1913. It was also
calledthe Hindi Associationof the Pacific Coast. This party also brought out a

2. letter named "Hindustan Ghadar" which was published in Urdu and Punjabi.
This organizationgave many greatrevolutionaries to India. The greatleaders
of the Ghadar Party, SohanSingh Bhakna, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Lala
Hardayal etc., inspired revolutionaries like BhagatSingh. As soonas the First
World War broke out, when other parties of India were supporting the
British, the Ghadaris declaredwar againstthe British Raj.
Introduction
The greatrevolutionary Vishnu GaneshPingle was born on 2 January 1888 in
a Marathi Brahmin family in Talegaonvillage of Poona. The youngestof nine
siblings, Pingle grew up in a loving family and was admitted to the primary
schoolin TalegaonDabhade at the age of nine. In 1905, Pingle joined the
Maharashtra Vidyalaya in Poona, which was then attachedto the University
of Bombay. While in school, Pingle came under the influence of the nationalist
movement of the time, and V.D. Actively participated in the movement under
Savarkar. In 1911, he came to America for engineering education, where he
joined the College ofEngineering at Sittel University. There he was guided by
leaders like Lala Hardayal. He was friends with the greatrevolutionary
Kartar Singh Sarabha. Vishnu was deeply aware of the fact that even if he
became an engineerafter studying and writing, then only the British would
come in handy. It is better that they join the Ghadar Party and play their part
in making India independent. He joined and became the head of publicity. On
the callof the Ghadar Party, Vishnu GaneshPingale came to Calcutta from
America carrying the torch of revolution and startedincreasing contactwith
the revolutionaries of Bengal. Seeing the golden opportunity to liberate the
country by creating rebellion in the country, Vishnu Ganeshreturned to India
with the restof his companions and British India. He started preparing to
bring revolution in the armies. He met Sri Ras BehariBose in Calcutta. He
came to Punjab with Shachindranath evening. At that time, complete
arrangements for military revolution were made in Punjab, Bengaland Uttar
Pradesh, but due to the betrayal of a traitor, the whole plan failed. Vishnu
Pingle was arrestedby a personnamed Nadir Khan. He had ten bombs at the
time of his arrest. He was tried and hanged on 17 November 1915 in the
Central Jail Lahore. For the independence of India, the sons of Mother India

3. who sacrificedtheir lives with laughter, unfortunately, the country has
forgottenmany of them.
Declared A Rebellion
Vishnu was also greatlyinfluenced by the history of the American freedom
struggle. In 1911, Pingle left Ausa for the United States. He kept the news of
his impending departure from his family and informed his elder brother
Keshavrao about his plans at the railwaystation. He arrived in the US via
Hong Kong, and enrolled as a mechanicalengineering student at the
University of Washingtonin 1912. While in the United States, Pingle joined
the GhadarParty and became an activist. As World War I broke out in
Europe, plans for attempted rebellion in India beganbetweenGermany, the
Berlin Committee in Europe, and the Ghadarist movement in America. As
part of the Ghadar Conspiracy, SatyenBhushan Sen, Kartar Singh Sarabha,
VG Pingle and a batch of Sikh revolutionaries sailed from America by SS
Salamin in the secondhalf of October1914 to strengthen contacts withthe
Indian revolutionary movement. Pingle stayed in China for a few days to meet
Satyen and the Ghadar leaders for future plans. As World War I broke out in
Europe, plans for attempted rebellion in India beganbetweenGermany, the
Berlin Committee in Europe, and the Ghadarist movement in America.Pingle,
Kartar Singh and SatyenSen reachedCalcutta in November 1914. Satyen
introduces Pingle and Kartar Singh to Jatin Mukherjee. The Calcutta
Superintendent of Police, Charles Tegart, was informed about an attempt to
molest some Sikh soldiers in the Dakshineswargunpowdermagazine.
Calcutta Karmagoginwas edited by Amarendra Chatterjee, on 18 November
1914, while investigating two bomb caps, Vishnu GaneshPingale and Sachin
Sanyal were injured. In December1914, Pingle arrived in Punjab, promising
Bengalicooperationto the disgruntled migrants. In a meeting demands were
made for revolution, plundering of the exchequer, seducing Indian soldiers,
collectionof weapons, preparationof bombs and commissionof dacoities.
Pingle returned to Calcutta with an invitation from RashBehari to meet him
at Benares to coordinate and finalize his plans. Jatin Mukherjee, Atulkrishna
Ghosh, No Ren Bhattacharya left for Banaras (early January 1915). At a very

4. important meeting, RashBehari declareda rebellion, declaring: "Die for your
country."
Bomb Blast Planning
By mid-January, Pingle was back in Amritsar with "Mote Babu" (Rash
Behari); To avoid too many visitors, RashBehari moved to Lahore after a
fortnight. In both places he collectedmaterials for making bombs and ordered
80 bomb casesto a foundry in Lahore. Its owner refusedto execute the order
due to doubts. Instead, ink pots were used as casesin many robberies.
Confident of being able to rally the Indian soldiers, the plot of the rebellion
took its final shape. The 23rd Cavalry in Punjab was to seize weapons and kill
its officers during a roll call on 21 February. This was followedby a rebellion
in the 26th Punjab, which marked the beginning of the rebellion, which
resulted in the invasion of Delhi and Lahore. The Bengalrevolutionaries
contactedthe Sikh soldiers stationedin Dhaka through credentials sent by the
Sikh soldiers of Lahore and were successfulin winning them over. The Bengal
cell was to look for the Punjab Mail entering Howrah stationthe next day
(which would have been canceledif Punjab had been annexed) and to strike
immediately. However, the Punjab CID successfullyinfiltrated the conspiracy
at the lastminute through Kirpal Singh: but the whole plan failed due to the
betrayal of a traitor. Here a JamadarNadir Khan betrayed him. He planned
to trap Vishnu. Nadir told him that a Bengalirevolutionary in Banaras had
many bombs.
Death
Vishnu went to Benares with the traitor Nadir Khan to collectthe bomb for
the revolution. Nadir sent Vishnu from there with 10 bombs and informed the
British. The British captured them. After this he was tried under the 'Lahore
ConspiracyCase'and hanged on 16 November1915 in Lahore.