Ghadar Mutiny
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The Ghadar Mutiny, also known as the Ghadar Conspiracy, was a plan to initiate a pan-India mutiny in the British Indian Army in February 1915 to end the British Raj in India. The plot originated at th
Punjabi Sikhs aboard the SS Komagata Maru in Vancouver's Burrard Inlet, 23 May 1914. Most of the passengers were not allowed to land in Canada and the ship was forced to return to India. The events surrounding the Komagata Maru incident served as a catalyst for the Ghadarite cause.
The public executions of convicted sepoy mutineers at Outram Road, Singapore, c. March 1915
Ghadar di gunj
The Niedermayer–Hentig Expedition, also known as the Kabul Mission, was a diplomatic mission to Afghanistan sent by the Central Powers in 1915–1916. The purpose was to encourage Afghanistan to declare
Mahendra Pratap, centre, with (left to right) Maulavi Barkatullah, Werner Otto von Hentig, Kazim Bey, and Walter Röhr. Kabul, 1916
Mehmed V, the Sultan of Turkey, was then regarded as the Caliph by a substantial part of the Islamic world.
Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan during World War I. Habibullah was closely allied to British India.
A column of troops of the Sistan force at Gusht in July 1916. The Force was then commanded by Reginald Dyer, later notorious for having ordered the Amritsar massacre.