Herambalal Gupta
Heramba Lal Gupta( C.1884-1950) was an Indian nationalist linked to the
At the outbreak of World War I, Gupta was in Germany as member of the
The revolutionaries started negotiations with the Chinese government through James Dietrich, who held
The ascent of Li Yuanhong to the Chinese Presidency in 1916 led to the negotiations reopening through his former private secretary who resided in the United States at the time. In exchange for allowing arms shipments to India via China's borders, China was offered German military assistance and the rights to 10% of any material shipped to India via China. The negotiations were ultimately unsuccessful due to Sun Yat Sen's opposition to an alliance with Germany.[4]
Gupta is believed[by whom?] to have later met with Mahendra Pratap's Provisional Government of India in Kabul, but he defected in 1918 and turned over his intelligence to British Indian police. He was arrested in the US and imprisoned for 18 months. He jumped bail and escaped to Mexico, where he became a teacher at Universidad Autonoma. He translated Tagore's Chitra into Spanish in 1919. He died on April 28, 1950, in Mexico.[citation needed]
Notes
- ^ Plowman 2003, p. 87
- ^ a b Brown 1948, p. 301
- ^ Popplewell 1995, p. 276
- ^ Brown 1948, p. 307
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