On the eve of World War I, a band of Indian immigrants living in the United States hatched an audacious plan to liberate their homeland from British colonial rule. Founded by a group of student radicals at UC Berkeley, the Ghadar movement recruited thousands of supporters via its underground newspaper and sent hundreds of freedom fighters across the Pacific in an attempt to smuggle guns and seditious literature into India. With the world descending into global war, the movement quickly became a geopolitical flash point. Germany, hoping to distract Britain from the fighting in France, poured spies and money into the Ghadar operations in California. The British, horrified by the unholy alliance, launched their own teams of spies, all while the US Department of Justice desperately tried to figure out what was going on. The result was one of the most complex trials to date, culminating in a courtroom gun battle that shocked the nation. Part of a larger narrative of American immigration, Let My Country Awake tells a story of America filled with contemporary resonance.
On the eve of World War I, a band of Indian immigrants living in the United States hatched an audacious plan to liberate their homeland from British colonial rule. Founded by a group of student radicals at UC Berkeley, the Ghadar movement recruited thousands of supporters via its underground newspaper and sent hundreds of freedom fighters across the Pacific in an attempt to smuggle guns and seditious literature into India. With the world descending into global war, the movement quickly became a geopolitical flash point. Germany, hoping to distract Britain from the fighting in France, poured spies and money into the Ghadar operations in California. The British, horrified by the unholy alliance, launched their own teams of spies, all while the US Department of Justice desperately tried to figure out what was going on. The result was one of the most complex trials to date, culminating in a courtroom gun battle that shocked the nation. Part of a larger narrative of American immigration, Let My Country Awake tells a story of America filled with contemporary resonance.
