IN THEIR HONOUR WE LIVE
16 November, 1915
Martyrdom of Seven #Ghadar_Party members: 1, Kartar Singh (Sarabha, Ludhiana) 2. Vishnu Ganesh Pingle (Talegaon, Pune, Maharashtra) 3. Jagat Singh (Sursingh, Amritsar) 4. Harnam SIngh (Bhatti Goraya, Sialkot) 5. Surain Singh s/o Sh. Bur Singh (Gilwali, Amritsar) 6. Surain Singh s/o Sh. Ishar Singh (Gilwali, Amritsar) 7. Bakhshish Singh (Gilwali, Amritsar) were accused in First Lahore Conspiracy Case and were hanged on 16th November, 1915 in Central Jail Lahore.
16 ਨਵੰਬਰ 1915 ਨੂੰ ਸਾਡੇ ਸਰਦਾਰ ਕਰਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਰਾਭੇ ਨੂੰ ਅਜਾਦੀ ਮੰਗਣ ਬਦਲੇ ਫਾਂਸੀ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਸੀ । ਕਰਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਰਾਭਾ ਬਰਤਾਨਵੀ ਸਰਕਾਰ ਖਿਲਾਫ ਚਲਾਈ ਗਈ ਗ਼ਦਰ ਲਹਿਰ ਦੇ ਮੋਹਰੀ ਆਗੂਆਂ ਵਿਚੋਂ ਸਨ। ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦਾ ਜਨਮ 24 ਮਈ 1896 ਵਿੱਚ ਲੁਧਿਆਣਾ ਦੇ ਪਿੰਡ ਸਰਾਭਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਹੋਇਆ ਸੀ।
1912 ਵਿੱਚ ਉਹ ਅਮਰੀਕਾ ਦੇ ਸਾਨ ਫਰਾਂਸਿਸਕੋ ਪੜ੍ਹਨ ਗਏ ਸਨ ਜਿੱਥੇ ਉਹ ਗ਼ਦਰ ਪਾਰਟੀ ਵਿਚ ਸਰਗਰਮ ਹੋ ਗਏ। ਗਦਰ ਪਾਰਟੀ ਭਾਰਤ ਨੂੰ ਬਰਤਾਨਵੀਂ ਹਕੂਮਤ ਤੋਂ ਅਜ਼ਾਦ ਕਰਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਸੰਘਰਸ਼ ਕਰ ਰਹੀ ਸੀ।
ਕਰਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਰਾਭਾ 1915 ਵਿੱਚ ਭਾਰਤ ਵਿੱਚ ਵਾਪਸ ਆਏ ਅਤੇ ਬਰਤਾਨਵੀ ਸਰਕਾਰ ਖਿਲਾਫ਼ ਗਦਰ ਦੀ ਤਿਆਰੀ ਕਰਨ ਲੱਗੇ ਪਰ ਸਰਕਾਰ ਨੂੰ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਗਤੀਵਿਧੀਆਂ ਬਾਰੇ ਪਤਾ ਲੱਗ ਗਿਆ ਅਤੇ 16 ਨਵੰਬਰ 1915 ਵਿੱਚ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਫਾਂਸੀ ਦੇ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਗਈ। ਜੋਰਾਵਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਤਰਸਿੱਕਾ ਆਪਣੇ ਇਸ ਮਹਾਨ ਯੋਧੇ ਦੀ ਕੁਰਬਾਨੀ ਨੂੰ ਸਿਜਦਾ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ ।
ਸ਼ਹੀਦ ਕਰਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਰਾਭਾ ਨੇ ਇਕ ਕਵਿਤਾ
ਲਿਖੀ ਸੀ, ਜਿਸ ਦੀ ਮੈ ਆਪ ਜੀ ਨਾਲ ਸਾਂਝ ਪਾਉਣ ਲੱਗਾ ਹਾ ਜੀ । ਪਹਿਲਾ ਇਹ ਦੇਸ਼ ਵਾਸੀਉ ਸੀ ਜੋ ਹੁਣ ਕਿਤਾਬਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਹਿੰਦ ਵਾਸੀਓ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤਾ । ਇਸ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਦੇ ਛੇ ਬੰਦ ਜੋ ਹੇਠਾ ਲਿਖੇ ਹਨ ਇਸ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਵਿੱਚੋ ਕੱਟ ਦਿੱਤੇ ਗਏ ਜੋ ਅੱਜ ਦੇ ਸਿਸਟਮ ਨੂੰ ਨੰਗੇ ਕਰਦੇ ਤੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਧਰਮ ਦੀ ਗੱਲ ਕਰਦੇ ਸਨ । ਪਹਿਲਾ ਇਹ ਹੁਣ ਵਾਲੀ ਜੋ ਹਿੰਦ ਲਿਖ ਕੇ ਲਿਖ ਦਿਤੀ ਗਈ ਹੈ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਪੜੋ ।
ਹਿੰਦ ਵਾਸੀਓ ਰੱਖਣਾ ਯਾਦ ਸਾਨੂੰ,
ਕਿਤੇ ਦਿਲਾਂ'ਚੋਂ ਨਾ ਭੁਲਾ ਜਾਣਾ |
ਖਾਤਰ ਵਤਨ ਦੀ ਲੱਗੇ ਹਾਂ ਚੜਨ ਫਾਂਸੀ,
ਸਾਨੂੰ ਦੇਖ ਕੇ ਨਾ ਘਬਰਾ ਜਾਣਾ|
ਸਾਡੀ ਮੌਤ ਨੇ ਵਤਨ ਦੇ ਵਾਸੀਆਂ ਦੇ,
ਦਿਲੀਂ ਵਤਨ ਦਾ ਇਸ਼ਕ ਜਗਾ ਜਾਣਾ|
ਹਿੰਦ ਵਾਸੀਓ ਚਮਕਣਾ ਚੰਦ ਵਾਂਗੂ,
ਕਿਤੇ ਬੱਦਲਾਂ ਹੇਠ ਨਾ ਆ ਜਾਣਾ|
ਕਰਕੇ ਦੇਸ਼ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ ਧਰੋ ਯਾਰੋ,
ਦਾਗ਼ ਕੋਮ ਦੇ ਮੱਥੇ ਨਾ ਲਾ ਜਾਣਾ|
ਮੂਲਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਕਿਰਪਾਲ ਨਵਾਬ ਵਾਂਗੂ,
ਅਮਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਨਾ ਕਿਸੇ ਕਹਾ ਜਾਣਾ|
ਜੇਲਾਂ ਹੋਣ ਕਾਲਜ ਵਤਨ ਸੇਵਕਾਂ ਦੇ,
ਦਾਖਲ ਹੋ ਕਿ ਡਿਗਰੀਆਂ ਪਾ ਜਾਣਾ|
ਹੁੰਦੇ ਫੇਲ ਬਹੁਤੇ ਅਤੇ ਪਾਸ ਥੋੜੇ,
ਵਤਨ ਵਾਸੀਓ ਦਿਲ ਨਾ ਢਾਹ ਜਾਣਾ|
ਪਿਆਰੇ ਵੀਰਨੋ ਚੱਲੇ ਹਾਂ ਅਸੀਂ ਜਿੱਥੇ,
ਉਸੇ ਰਾਸਤੇ ਤੁਸੀ ਵੀ ਆ ਜਾਣਾ|
ਹਿੰਦ ਵਾਸੀਓ ਰੱਖਣਾ ਯਾਦ ਸਾਨੂੰ,
ਕਿਤੇ ਦਿਲਾਂ'ਚੋਂ ਨਾ ਭੁਲਾ ਜਾਣਾ |
ਕਿਤੇ ਦਿਲਾਂ'ਚੋਂ ਨਾ ਭੁਲਾ ਜਾਣਾ ....
ਇਹ ਸ਼ਹੀਦ ਸਰਾਭੇ ਦੀ ਮਸ਼ਹੂਰ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਹੈ, ਜੋ ਪਾਠ ਪੁਸਤਕਾਂ ‘ਚ ਵੀ ਪੜ੍ਹਾਈ ਜਾਂਦੀ ਸੀ । ਪਰ ਇਸ ਪੂਰੀ ਕਵਿਤਾ ‘ਚੋਂ ਆਖਰੀ ਛੇ ਬੰਦ ਬੜੀ ਸਾਜਿਸ਼ ਤਹਿਤ ਕੱਟ ਦਿੱਤੇ ਗਏ, ਜੋ ਧਰਮ ਦਾ ਜ਼ਿਕਰ ਕਰਦੇ ਸਨ।,,,, ਦੇਸ਼ ਦੀ ਅਜਾਦੀ ਵਿਚ ਗਦਰੀ ਬਾਬਿਆਂ ਦਾ ਯੋਗਦਾਨ ਕਿਸੇ ਤੋ ਲੁਕਿਆ ਨਹੀਂ ,ਪਰ ਸਮੇਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਸਰਕਾਰਾਂ ਨੇ ਉਹਨਾਂ ਦੀ ਕੁਰਬਾਨੀ ਦਾ ਬਹੁਤਾ ਮੁਲ ਨਹੀਂ ਪਾਇਆ। ਪੇਸ਼ ਹਨ ਕੱਟੇ ਗਏ ਛੇ ਬੰਦ:
ਸਦਾ ਜੀਵਣਾ ਨਹੀਂ ਜਹਾਨ ਅੰਦਰ
ਖਿਲੀ ਰਹੇਗੀ ਸਦਾ ਗੁਲਜ਼ਾਰ ਨਾਹੀ ।
ਸਦਾ ਕੂੜ ਦੀ ਰਹੇ ਨਾਂ ਜ਼ਾਰਸ਼ਾਹੀ
ਸਦਾ ਜਾਬਰਾਂ ਹੱਥ ਤਲਵਾਰ ਨਾਹੀ।
ਰੰਗ ਬਦਲਦੀ ਰਹੇਗੀ ਸਦਾ ਕੁਦਰਤ
ਬਣਦਾ ਵਖਤ ਕਿਸੇ ਦਾ ਯਾਰ ਨਾਹੀ।
ਹੋਸੀ ਧਰਮ ਦੀ ਜਿੱਤ ਅਖੀਰ ਬੰਦੇ
ਬੇੜੀ ਪਾਪ ਦੀ ਲੱਗਣੀ ਪਾਰ ਨਾਹੀ।
ਸਾਡੇ ਵੀਰਨੋ ਤੁਸਾਂ ਨੇ ਖੁਸ਼ ਰਹਿਣਾ
ਅਸੀ ਆਪਣੀ ਆਪ ਨਿਭਾ ਦਿਆਂਗੇ।
ਦੁੱਖ ਝੱਲਾਂਗੇ ਹੱਸਕੇ ਵਾਂਗ ਮਰਦਾਂ
ਨਾਲ ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ੀ ਦੇ ਸੀਸ ਲਹਾ ਦਿਆਂਗੇ।
ਖ਼ਾਤਰ ਧਰਮ ਦੀ ਜਿੰਦ ਕੁਰਬਾਨ ਕਰਕੇ
ਜੜ੍ਹ ਜ਼ੁਲਮ ਦੀ ਪੁੱਟ ਦਿਖਾ ਦਿਆਂਗੇ।
ਥੋੜੇ ਦਿਨਾਂ ਤਾਂਈ ਬੇੜਾ ਪਾਰ ਹੋਸੀ
ਸਰੋਂ ਹੱਥ ਤੇ ਅਸੀ ਜਮਾਂ ਦਿਆਂਗੇ।
ਸਾਡੇ ਵੀਰਨੋ ਤੁਸਾਂ ਨਾ ਫਿਕਰ ਕਰਨਾ
ਵਿਦਾ ਬਖ਼ਸ਼ਣੀ ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ੀ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ ਸਾਨੂੰ।
ਫਾਂਸੀ ਤੋਪ ਬੰਦੂਕ ਤੇ ਤੀਰ ਬਰਸ਼ੀ
ਕੱਟ ਸਕਦੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਤਲਵਾਰ ਸਾਨੂੰ।
ਸਾਡੀ ਆਤਮਾ ਸਦਾ ਅਡੋਲ ਵੀਰੋ
ਕਰੂ ਕੀ ਤੁਫੰਗ ਦਾ ਵਾਰ ਸਾਨੂੰ।
ਖ਼ਾਤਰ ਧਰਮ ਦੀ ਪਿਤਾ ਨੇ ਪੁੱਤ ਵਾਰੇ,
ਦਿਸੇ ਚਮਕਦੀ ਨੇਕ ਮਿਸਾਲ ਸਾਨੂੰ।
On November 16, 1915, our Sardar Kartar Singh Sarabha was hanged for demanding freedom. Kartar Singh Sarabha was one of the leading leaders of the Gadar movement against the British government. He was born on 24 May 1896 in village Sarabha, Ludhiana.
In 1912 he went to study in San Francisco, America where he became active in the Gadar Party. The Gadar party was struggling to liberate India from the British government.
Kartar Singh Sarabha returned to India in 1915 and started preparing for Gadar against the British government but the government came to know about their activities and was hanged on 16 November 1915 Jorawar Singh Tarsikka bow down to the sacrifice of this great warrior.
A poem by Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha
I have written, which I have started sharing with you. Earlier it was a countryman who has now done it in the books as Hindus. Six closures of this poem which are written below were cut from this poem that used to naked today's system and talk about their religion. Read the poem which has been written in Hind first.
Indians remember us,
Don't forget from the heart |
For the sake of the country, we are hanged,
Don't be afraid to see us
Our death is of the people of the country,
The love of the country will wake up from the heart
Indians, shine like the moon,
Don't fall under the clouds
Do it with the country friends,
Don't put stains on the forehead of the community
Mula Singh Kirpal is like a Nawab,
Amar Singh will not be called anyone
Jails should be the colleges of country servants,
Will get degrees after entering
Many fail and few pass,
Countrymen, don't be heartbroken
Dear brothers where we are going,
You will also come on the same way
Indians remember us,
Don't forget from the heart |
Don't forget from heart....
This is the famous poem of Shaheed Sarabha, which was also taught in textbooks. But the last six closures of this whole poem were cut under a big conspiracy, which mentioned religion... The contribution of Gadri Baba in the freedom of the country is not hidden from anyone, but the governments of the time have worth their sacrifice. Didn't get it. Here are the six cut offs:
There is no forever life in the world
Gulzar will always be blooming.
Jarshahi should always be of bad luck.
There is always a sword in the hands of the brave.
Nature will always change colors
Time is made, no one's friend.
Victory of Hosi religion at last men
The boat of sin will not cross.
Our brothers you will be happy
We will fulfill it ourselves.
We will bear the pain like a smile
We will bring you happiness along with you.
After sacrificing the life of religion for the sake of religion
We will show the root of oppression.
Crossed the fleet in a few days
We will freeze on mustard hand.
Our brothers don't worry
Bid us farewell with happiness.
Hanging cannon gun and arrows showered
The sword cannot cut us.
Our soul is always adol brothers
What will the storm attack us?
The father of religion gave birth to his son,
We can see a shining example.
Kartar Singh Sarabha (24 May, 1896 - 16 November, 1915) began his involvement in the Gadar Party in San Francisco in 1912. Sarabha was born in India in the year 1896. After his graduation from high school in 1911, he arrived at the University of California, Berkeley to continue his studies in engineering.
In Berkeley, he joined the Gadar party in 1913. Around this time, he also learned how to fly. He returned to India in 1914 to fight for his country's independence. On November 16th, 1915, Sarabha was hanged at the tender age of 19.
Sarabha, whose father's name was Sardar Mangal Singh, was born into a Grewal Jat Sikh family at village Sarabha in the district of Ludhiana, Punjab in 1896. When he was fifteen, his parents put him on board a ship bound for America to work there. The ship landed at the American port of San Francisco in January 1912.
At that time Asian immigrants were put through rigorous questioning and there numbers were strictly limited, while people of Western European countries were allowed to pass after slight checks. Asking one of his fellow passengers why this was happening, he was told, "Indians are the citizens of a slave country. As such, they are treated badly." This incident had a great effect on Sarabha.
Kartar enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) and also found seasonal work picking fruit in the vast orchards of California's central valley. Whether at school or in the fields, when time allowed, he frequently talked with other Indians about winning freedom for India. By 1914, vast numbers of Indians were working outside of India. Most were working either as indentured labourers in any of several British Colonies or as soldiers in the British/Indian Armed forces then fighting in Europe (WWI), the Middle East or in one of Britain's Colonies.
On April 21,1913, the Indians of California assembled and formed the Ghadar (Revolution) Party). The aims of the Ghadar Party were to free India from the slavery of British Rule, by means of an armed struggle and to set up a national democratic government in India. Their slogan was "Put at stake everything for the freedom of the country." On November 1, 1913, the Ghadar Party started printing a paper named 'Ghadar', which was published in the Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati and Pushto languages. Kartar Singh did all the work for that paper.
This paper was sent to Indians living in all countries throughout the world. The purpose of the paper was to unmask the truth about British rule to Indians, impart military training, and explain in detail the methods of making and using weapons and explosives.
Within a short time, the Ghadar Party became very famous through its organ: 'The Ghadar". It drew Indians from all walks of life.
With the start of World War I in 1914, the British became thoroughly engrossed in the war effort. Thinking it to be a good opportunity, the leaders of the Ghadar Party published the "Decision of Declaration of War" against the British in an issue of The Ghadar dated August 5, 1914. Thousands of copies of the paper were distributed among army cantonments, villages and cities. Kartar Singh reached Calcutta via Colombo on board the SS Salamin, in November, 1914. He was accompanied by two other Gadhar leaders, Satyen Sen and Vishnu Ganesh Pingle, along with a large number of Gadhar militants. With a letter of introduction from Jatin Mukherjee, the Jugantar leader, Kartar Singh and Pingle met Rasbehari Bose at Benares to inform him that twenty thousand more Gadhar members were expected very soon [1]. A large number of leaders of the Ghadar Party were arrested by the Government at the ports. In spite of these arrests, a meeting was held by members of the Ghadar Party at Ladhouwal near Ludhiana in which it was decided to rob the houses of rich people, to finance the armed insurrection. Two Ghadris, Waryam Singh and Bhai Ram Rakha were killed in a bomb blast in one such raid.
After the arrival of Rash Behari Bose at Amritsar on January 25, 1915, it was decided in a meeting on February 12 that the uprising should be started on February 21. It was planned that after capturing the cantonments of Mian Mir and Ferozepur, mutinies were to be engineered near Ambala and Delhi. Kirpal Singh, a police informer, planted in the ranks of the Ghadar Party, had a large number of members arrested on February 19 and informed the Government of the planned revolt. The Government disarmed the native soldiers due to which the revolt failed.
On March 2, 1915, Risaldar Ganda Singh had Kartar Singh, Harman Singh, Tundilat, and Jagit Singh, arrested from Chakk, No. 5, district Lyallpur.
The judgement in respect of the 63 arrested Gadharites was pronounced on September 13, 1915, at the Central Jail, Lahore. In this first conspiracy case of 1914–15, 24 Gadarites were sentenced to death. Kartar Singh was one of them.
The court observed that Kartar Singh was the most dangerous of all the rebels. "He is very proud of the crimes he committed. He does not deserve mercy and should be sentenced to death". Kartar Singh was hanged in the Central Jail of Lahore on November 16, 1915, when he was only 18.
He soon became the symbol of martyrdom and many were influenced from his bravery and sacrifice. Bhagat Singh, another great revolutionary of Indian freedom, regarded Kartar Singh as his guru, friend and brother. The judges during his trial were impressed by his intellectual skills, but nonetheless he was sentenced to death by hanging. He wrote a popular song which he would sing and it is said that he died singing it:
"Sewa desh di jinddhiye badhi aukhi
gallan karnia dher sukhalliyan ne,
jinha desh sewa 'ch pair paya
ohna lakh museebtan jhalliyan ne."
Serving ones country is very difficult
It is so easy to talk
Anyone who walked on that path
Must endure millions of calamities.
A statue of Kartar Singh Sarabha was erected in Ludhiana, and the Punjabi novelist Bhai Nanak Singh wrote a novel called Ikk Mian Do Talwaran based on his life.
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