Baba Gurdit Singh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian revolutionary
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Place of Birth: Sarhali, Punjab, India
About Baba Gurdit Singh
- Baba Gurdit Singh (25 August 1860 – 24 July 1954) was the central figure in the Komagata Maru incident of 1914, one of several incidents in the history of early 20th century involving exclusion laws in both Canada and the United States designed to keep out immigrants of only Asian origin. Singh was born in 1860 at Sarhali, in Amritsar District of British Punjab province (India).
- In 1914 he chartered a Japanese ship, the Komagata Maru, to go to Canada, reaching Vancouver on 23 May 1914.
- The government did not allow the ship to anchor and the ship was attacked by the police at night.
- The attack was repulsed by the passengers and it created a great stir among Indians in Canada.
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