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'''1915 Lahore Conspiracy Case trial''' or '''First Lahore Conspiracy Case''', was a series of trials held in [[Lahore]] (then part of the undivided [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]] of [[British Raj|British India]]), and in the United States, in the aftermath of the failed [[Ghadar conspiracy]] from 26 April to 13 September, 1915. There were nine cases in total. The trial was held by a Special tribunal constituted under the [[Defence of India Act 1915]].<ref name="Gill2007">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=z0SOfZwnXZIC&pg=PA94&dq=Lahore+Conspiracy+Case+trial+1915#v=onepage|title=Trials that Changed History: From Socrates to Saddam Hussein|last=Gill|first=M. S.|date=2007|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-797-8|location=New Delhi|pages=92–99|language=en}}</ref><ref name=Sohi2014>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=fCnnAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA182&dq=first+lahore+conspiracy+case+1915#v=onepage|title=Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America|last=Sohi|first=Seema|date=2014|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-937624-7|pages=182|language=en}}</ref><ref name=Sahni2012>{{Cite journal|last=Sahni|first=Binda|date=1 May 2012|title=Effects of Emergency Law in India 1915-1931|url=https://www.eiu.edu/studiesonasia/documents/seriesIV/Sahni_Studies_Oct2012.pdf|journal=Studies on Asia|language=en|location=Rochester, NY}}</ref>
'''1915 Lahore Conspiracy Case trial''' or '''First Lahore Conspiracy Case''', was a series of trials held in [[Lahore]] (then part of the undivided [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]] of [[British Raj|British India]]), and in the United States, in the aftermath of the failed [[Ghadar conspiracy]] from 26 April to 13 September, 1915. There were nine cases in total. The trial was held by a Special tribunal constituted under the [[Defence of India Act 1915]].<ref name="Gill2007">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=z0SOfZwnXZIC&pg=PA94&dq=Lahore+Conspiracy+Case+trial+1915#v=onepage|title=Trials that Changed History: From Socrates to Saddam Hussein|last=Gill|first=M. S.|date=2007|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-797-8|location=New Delhi|pages=92–99|language=en}}</ref><ref name=Sohi2014>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=fCnnAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA182&dq=first+lahore+conspiracy+case+1915#v=onepage|title=Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America|last=Sohi|first=Seema|date=2014|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-937624-7|pages=182|language=en}}</ref><ref name=Sahni2012>{{Cite journal|last=Sahni|first=Binda|date=1 May 2012|title=Effects of Emergency Law in India 1915-1931|url=https://www.eiu.edu/studiesonasia/documents/seriesIV/Sahni_Studies_Oct2012.pdf|journal=Studies on Asia|language=en|location=Rochester, NY}}</ref>


Out of a total of 291 convicted conspirators, 42 were executed, 114 got life sentences and 93 got varying terms of imprisonment. 42 defendants in the trial were acquitted. The uncovering of the conspiracy also saw the initiation of the [[Hindu German Conspiracy trial]] in the United States.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}
Out of a total of 291 convicted conspirators, 42 were executed, 114 got life sentences and 93 got varying terms of imprisonment. 42 defendants in the trial were acquitted. The uncovering of the conspiracy also saw the initiation of the [[Hindu German Conspiracy trial]] in the United States.


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 09:43, 17 April 2021

1915 Lahore Conspiracy Case trial or First Lahore Conspiracy Case, was a series of trials held in Lahore (then part of the undivided Punjab of British India), and in the United States, in the aftermath of the failed Ghadar conspiracy from 26 April to 13 September, 1915. There were nine cases in total. The trial was held by a Special tribunal constituted under the Defence of India Act 1915.[1][2][3]

Out of a total of 291 convicted conspirators, 42 were executed, 114 got life sentences and 93 got varying terms of imprisonment. 42 defendants in the trial were acquitted. The uncovering of the conspiracy also saw the initiation of the Hindu German Conspiracy trial in the United States.

See also

References

  1. ^ Gill, M. S. (2007). Trials that Changed History: From Socrates to Saddam Hussein. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons. pp. 92–99. ISBN 978-81-7625-797-8.
  2. ^ Sohi, Seema (2014). Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America. Oxford University Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-19-937624-7.
  3. ^ Sahni, Binda (1 May 2012). "Effects of Emergency Law in India 1915-1931" (PDF). Studies on Asia. Rochester, NY.

Further reading

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