India, Sept. 5 -- Almost everyone has an opinion about the past but it is uncommon for a veterinary officer, inspired by a chance visit to the Andamans' Cellular Jail (now a memorial and museum), to write a book on the Ghadar Movement. In doing so, author Rana Preet Gill has breached the boundary of pedantic historical writing and presented the spirit and struggle of Ghadarites in a more comprehensible way.

The Ghadar Movement; A Forgotten Struggle, comprising 38 short chapters, brings out both the national and international influences that shaped the movement, and the interconnection of people from Bombay, Bengal and Punjab to the widespread network of emigrants in Canada (a dominion of the British Empire) and the United States, who con...