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The Ghadr (Ghadar) was a
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The Ghadar Party was an Indian revolutionary organization formed in 1913 in San Francisco, United States, by migrant Indians[2]. It was a revolutionary association of Indians with headquarters at San Francisco[4]. The organization was launched formally in San Francisco in 1913 and was later smashed, with its members brutally exterminated and hanged between[6] 1914-1916. The Ghadar movement played a significant role in India's freedom struggle by mobilizing Indian immigrants, particularly in North America, against British colonial rule. The party published a revolutionary newspaper called "Ghadar" (meaning "mutiny" or "rebellion") to spread their message among Indians worldwide. Therefore, option A correctly identifies the Ghadar as a revolutionary association headquartered in San Francisco, not Singapore, Berlin, or Tashkent as suggested by the other options.
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- Statement 1: Was the Ghadar (Ghadr) movement a revolutionary association of Indians headquartered in San Francisco?
- Statement 2: Was the Ghadar (Ghadr) movement a nationalist organization operating from Singapore?
- Statement 3: Was the Ghadar (Ghadr) movement a militant organization headquartered in Berlin?
- Statement 4: Was the Ghadar (Ghadr) movement a communist movement for India's freedom headquartered in Tashkent?
- Directly answers the quiz-style question affirming the Ghadar was a revolutionary association of Indians.
- Specifically states the headquarters were at San Francisco.
- Explicitly identifies the Ghadar Party as an Indian revolutionary organization.
- States it was formed in 1913 in San Francisco by migrant Indians, tying origin and headquarters to San Francisco.
- Describes the Ghadar Party as born in San Francisco and notes the original headquarters are in San Francisco.
- Provides historical context linking local San Francisco community and a preserved Ghadar headquarters building.
States Lala Hardayal settled in San Francisco and founded the Pacific Coast Hindustan Association (popularly called Ghadar) and that the party published the journal Ghadar beginning publication from San Francisco.
A student could combine this with basic geography (San Francisco on the US west coast) and the fact that a movement publishing its journal from a city suggests an organizational base there, to judge plausibility of a San Francisco headquarters.
Explicitly says the Ghadr Party was organised around a weekly newspaper with its headquarters at San (fragment continues to San Francisco in related snippet).
Use the pattern that revolutionary diasporic movements often center where their press is located to infer that a newspaper-centred group likely had its headquarters where the paper was produced.
Notes branches along the US coast and Far East and that activists reached there by 1911, culminating in establishment of the Ghadr in 1913 (context implies US/West Coast base).
A student could map the mentioned coastal branches and infer a Pacific-coast hub (San Francisco) consistent with a headquarters there.
Says the United States of America and Canada had established the Ghadar Party in 1913 and describes its international membership and revolutionary aims.
Combine this rule/example (Ghadar formed in North America in 1913) with city-level evidence to assess whether San Francisco is a plausible headquarter location for a North American-based revolutionary association.
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