Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon dated November 6, 1952. Lal responds to a complaint Channon’s son Prakash made that, because Lal failed to mention his father’s role in the Ghadar Party and related revolutionary movements, he did not introduce him properly at a recent dinner party.
Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon dated July 6, 1951. Lal encourages Channon to revisit India and closes by thanking him for a letter Channon sent on Indian Ghadarites. "So many fakers claiming to be founders of the Gadar Party! [...] Nobody realizes that Har Dayal did it -- he and he alone; next Ram Chandra and the rest of us."
Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon dated August 3, 1951. Lal laments that the lack of the Indian government’s interest in incorporating patriots like Channon who fought for independence from abroad into its plans for the future is a "damned shame."
Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon dated March 15, 1931. In it, Lal reports that an article titled "Deporting California Hindus" is circulating in New York papers and asks Channon what is going on.
Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon dated June 5, 1951. Lal recounts two meetings with Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit in Washington and laments that the Indian government does nothing to support or honor the role of the Indian American community in the Freedom movement.
Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon dated September 15, 1951. Lal gives Channon advice regarding Channon’s preparations for a trip to India.
Letter from Taraknath Das to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Letter from Taraknath Das to Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel dated July 3, 1948. "We may claim on behalf of Indians in America to express our heartfelt gratitude to you and your associates for your firm and statesman-like stand against balkanisation of India specially for solution to problems of Indian states," he writes.
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon dated July 22, 1948. Das asks Channon to distribute copies of a letter to the Times and to read a separate letter addressed to "Friends" to trusted groups. "Nizam’s agents in Washington and other places [are] working hard," he writes. "I have sent a letter to Washington Post in answer to one of those letters.
Letter from Taraknath Das
Letter from Taraknath Das dated July 22, 1948. Das urges the Indian community in the U.S. to counteract the messages being spread amongst the American public by representatives of the Indian government in the U.S., who were pressured by the U.S.’ pro-Pakistan stance to support Partition.
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon dated August 4, 1948. Das urges Channon to organize the California Indian community against Partition. "It does not matter if we only get 50 people in California who are really with us for the cause of establishing a United States of India and no Partition," he writes. "Number does not count. It is the quality of men and women which counts.