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title: Cover of 'Ghadar di Gunj' (Ghadar Press, San Francisco, March 1914)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ghadar-di-gunj-cover-san-francisco-1914/
description: 'Cover of a pamphlet of Punjabi patriotic verse: a woman with a drawn sword stands before a spear, quiver and rifle, beside a large animal hide with a…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Pamphlet cover showing a woman with a drawn sword beside a rifle, spear and animal hide, with the slogan 'First death, afterwards freedom'; armed-resistance verse. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# Cover of 'Ghadar di Gunj' (Ghadar Press, San Francisco, March 1914)

Cover of a pamphlet of Punjabi patriotic verse: a woman with a drawn sword stands before a spear, quiver and rifle, beside a large animal hide with a lion's head, under three banners reading 'First death', 'Bande Mataram', 'Afterwards freedom'. The tell is the devotional motherland-and-warrior imagery attached to a slogan of sacrifice, which transfers the prestige of the sacred and the heroic onto armed resistance.

## Text on the object

Original (Punjabi (Urdu/Shahmukhi script)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
بندے ماترم
غدر دی گونج
دیشی بھگتاں دی بانی

[banner, left] پچھوں آزادی
[banner, centre] بندے ماترم
[banner, right] پہلاں موت

[small labels beside the figure and the gun: illegible]

[oval, bottom] غدر کی [illegible] نمبر ... [illegible] کی طرف سے مفت بھیجی جاتی [illegible]

غدر پریس - تعداد دس ہزار - سان فرانسسکو امریکہ
مارچ ۱۹۱۴ء

[library pencil: Ghadar di gunj]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Bande Mataram
Echo of the Ghadar (Revolt)
Voice/utterance of the country's devotees (patriots)

[banners] Afterwards freedom / Bande Mataram / First death

[labels: illegible]

[oval] [partly illegible: ... is sent free ...]

Ghadar Press - print run ten thousand - San Francisco, America
March 1914
```

Handwritten-style Shahmukhi lettering; the title block and banners are clear, the small labels and the bottom oval are only partly legible and are marked rather than guessed. The reading of the print-run word is the transcriber's best reading. Translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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