<div><font color="Navy"> Remembering an unsung Dalit Hero of the Ghadar Movement
GURPREET SINGH RADIO INDIA - THE PROVINCE - January 16, 2013
As secularist and progressive groups have started celebrating the Ghadar Party centenary this year, those organizing the events need to highlight the role played by many unsung heroes of the freedom struggle.
Among them was Mangu Ram Muggowal, a prominent Dalit icon of Punjab. He was a part of the Gadar party that was launched in the U.S. on Nov. 1, 1913 and believed in an armed struggle against the British occupation of India.
Although historians sometimes do injustice to individual participants of historical struggles and their contributions are sometimes overshadowed by the role played by a few dominant leaders, the followers of Muggowal believe that his role in the Gadar movement may have been deliberately ignored because of caste prejudice. While this allegation is debatable, Muggowal
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GURPREET SINGH RADIO INDIA - THE PROVINCE - January 16, 2013
As secularist and progressive groups have started celebrating the Ghadar Party centenary this year, those organizing the events need to highlight the role played by many unsung heroes of the freedom struggle.
Among them was Mangu Ram Muggowal, a prominent Dalit icon of Punjab. He was a part of the Gadar party that was launched in the U.S. on Nov. 1, 1913 and believed in an armed struggle against the British occupation of India.
Although historians sometimes do injustice to individual participants of historical struggles and their contributions are sometimes overshadowed by the role played by a few dominant leaders, the followers of Muggowal believe that his role in the Gadar movement may have been deliberately ignored because of caste prejudice. While this allegation is debatable, Muggowal
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