¹ Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1917; hereafter referred to as “Political Trouble.”

² Ker served in the Indian Civil Service from 1907 to 1913 as Personal Assistant to the Director of Criminal Intelligence.

³ This author possesses one copy of the book. A photostat of the title page of “Political Trouble” appears above.

⁴ Uma Mukherjee has quoted from “Political Trouble” in her book, “Two great Indian revolutionaries” (Calcutta, 1966). These citations, however, do not bring to light the importance and significance of “Political Trouble” for studying the Indian revolutionary movement during the period 1907–1917.

⁵ Under the presidentship of Mr. Justice S.A.T. Rowlatt, (Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1918); hereafter referred to as “Rowlatt Report.”

⁶ “Political Trouble,” p. 1.

⁷ The governor-general in Council, with the approval of the secretary of state for India, appointed the Sedition Committee—“(1) to investigate and report on the nature and extent of the criminal conspiracies connected with the revolutionary movement in India, (2) to examine and consider the difficulties that have arisen in dealing with such conspiracies and to advise as to the legislation, if any, necessary to enable Government to deal effectively with them …” (“Rolwlatt Report,” p. i).

⁸ The preface is written by Sir C. R. Cleveland, the Director of Criminal Intelligence, Government of India.

⁹ “Political Trouble,” p. 5. The partition of Bengal was annulled and the province was united by royal command at the Delhi Durbar in December 1911.

¹⁰ British Labor Party's organ the Daily Herald noted that Tilak was “the best hated man of all Anglo-Indian autocrats.” (Quoted in Bose, Jogesh C., “Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak,” The Modern Review, Calcutta, December 1959, Vol. 106, No. 6, p. 461Google Scholar).

¹¹ “Political Trouble,” pp. 14–15.

¹² For example, SirChirol, Valentine, “Indian Unrest,” (London, 1910)Google Scholar.

¹³ With an obvious reference to Tilak the Sedition Committee also came to the same conclusion: “Public Ganpati festivals appear to have arisen out of anti-Muhammadan movement started after riots which broke out in the city of Bombay in 1893 between Hindus and Muhammadans. Agitators who were interested in widening the breach between the two communities encouraged the holding of public celebrations in honour of Ganpati, the elephant-headed god of wisdom and success on a much larger scale than in previous years.” (“Rowlatt Report,” p. 1).

¹⁴ “Political Trouble,” p. 18.

¹⁵ Parvate, T. V., Bal Gangadhar Tilak, (Ahmedabad, 1958), pp. 403–404Google Scholar.

¹⁶ “Political Trouble,” p. 92.

¹⁷ The six-day strike in July 1908 was a mark of strong protest against the award of six years' transportation to Tilak in a sedition case.

¹⁸ “Political Trouble,” p. 95.

¹⁹ Ibid., p. 442.

²⁰ The most conspicuous by its condemnation of Indian revolutionaries was the London daily the Times.

²¹ For example, The Pioneer, Allahabad.

²² John Morley, secretary of state for India (1905–1910), in his letter, dated May 3, 1907, to Lord Minto, governor-general and viceroy of India (1905–1910), referred to Indian revolutionaries as “sedition-mongers.” See “Recollections,” (London, 1924), Vol. II, p. 212Google Scholar; Lord Hardinge, governor-general and viceroy in India from 1910 to 1916, said that “the Gadar party … is frankly anarchistic.” (Quoted in Banerji, K. K., “Har Dayal and Ram Chandra-an assessment of two Gadar leaders,” The Modern Review, Calcutta, May 1965, Vol. 117, No. 5, p. 338Google Scholar).

²³ Ganesh Srikrishna Khaparde was an “extremist” and “nationalist” leader from Amraoti (Central India). He was a close associate of B. G. Tilak, whom he accompanied to the Shivaji festival held in Calcutta in 1906. In April 1916 Tilak founded the India Home Rule League (for Bombay, C.P. & Berar regions of British India). Khaparde was one of its founder-members. To plead for the cause of India's Home Rule, Khaparde went to England in 1919 as a member of the deputation of Home Rule League. After the inauguration of the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms he became a Member of Imperial Legislative Council.

²⁴ “Political Trouble,” p. 27.

²⁵ Ibid., pp. 27–29.

²⁶ The hint given by Ker, if corroborated on further investigations, would place G. S. Khaparde in a very important place in the history of the revolutionary movement in India.

²⁷ Arabindo Ghose, the philosopher and mystic revolutionary, was the author of the revolutionary pamphlet “Bhawani Mandir.” He edited the revolutionary English daily Bande Mataram. He was charged for sedition in August 1907. Later on he was accused of conspiracy in the Maniktolla Garden Case in 1909. But in both the cases he was acquitted. In 1910 he opened a new chapter in his life, when he left Bengal and reached Pondicherry. There he dedicated himself to religious meditation and spiritual development and founded the famous “Arabindo Ashram.”

²⁸ The Maniktolla Garden Case (August 1908–May 1909) was so named after the place in the northeastern suburbs of Calcutta where the headquarters of a revolutionary group was located. This group was accused of having entered into a conspiracy which ultimately resulted in the murder of Mrs. and Miss Kennedy at Muzaffarpur on April 30, 1908.

²⁹ “Political Trouble,” pp. 152–153.

³⁰ The famous Indian revolutionary, who was one of the pioneers of the Gadar movement among Indian emigrants in U.S.A. and Canada, for the independence of India from the British.

³¹ “Political Trouble,” p. 234. Ker's information can be relied upon, because in a similar case he does not hesitate to say that Barakatullah (another Indian Revolutionary) was removed from his post in the University of Tokyo. (“Political Trouble,” p. 135).

³² On August 8, 1910, Sridhar Waman Nagarkar was sentenced to three years' R. I. under section 124-A of I.P.C. for having published this picture [vide telegram of District Superintendent of Police, Nasik, to the secretary to government, Bombay—“Source Material for a History of the Freedom Movement in India,” Vol. II, 1885–1920, (Bombay, 1958), p. 671]. Later the Government of Bombay by their Notification No. 4627 of August 15, 1910 forfeited the picture. (Ibid.)

³³ A Hindu goddess.

³⁴ “Political Trouble,” p. 391.

³⁵ The index enumerates names of persons, places, organizations, institutions, literature, important events etc. connected with Indian revolutionary movement during the period 1907–1917.

³⁶ The author of the book, “A History of the Indian Nationalist Movement,” (London, 1920)Google Scholar. He was also a member of the Sedition Committee (1918).