Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s9.t5.10

v1.c7.s9.t5.10

India which advocated armed struggle often sent missions to the far East to purchase arms. They often sought his help. For example, Naren Bhattacharyya (later M. N. Roy), who was a member of a secret organisation in Bengal, and the special envoy of the Ghadar Party in USA, Sachindra Sen (Sachindranath Sanyal) and Vishnu Ganesh Pingle, had all met Sun Yat-sen in China. He did what he could in helping them. When he was in Shanghai and Japan, he helped Rash Bihari Bose (who had made an abortive assassination attempt on Governor General Hardinge in 1912, and had again engineered an armed uprising in Punjab and north India in February 1915 for which he was absconding) to escape arrest twice. He also maintained close contacts and established cooperation with the well-known Indian revolutionary Barkatullah. Indian revolutionaries greatly admired Sun Yat-sen. They also knew that he was an advocate for armed struggle. It was but natural that they would seek his help. Bose recorded the unforgettable memory of how he had been helped by him in his book entitled '*The Revolutionary India*'.