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
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.
- Date
- March 1914
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Ghadar Party (Hindustan Ghadar), Ghadar Press, San Francisco
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Document
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Diaspora or minority
- Event
- Ghadar Movement
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Internet Archive (scan from the Robarts Library, University of Toronto), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1914, before 1931); Internet Archive page: possible-copyright-status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Ghadar Press, San Francisco, March 1914; University of Toronto Robarts Library copy, via Internet Archive
Text on the object
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]
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.
