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p s khankhoje hindu-german conspiracy , indian communism january 22 , 1967 nagpur , maharashtra wardha , maharashtra 7 november 1883 pandurang khankhoje.jpg pandurang sadashiv khankhoje
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pandurang sadashiv khankhoje

pandurang sadashiv khankhoje -lrb- 7 november 1884 -- 22 january 1967 -rrb- was an indian revolutionary , scholar , agricultural scientist and historian who was among the founding fathers of the ghadar party .
khankhoje was born in november 1884 to a marathi brahmin family at wardha , where his father worked as a petition-writer .
young khankhoje spent his childhood in wardha , where he completed his primary and middle school education before moving to nagpur for higher education .
he was at the time inspired by the nationalist work of bal gangadhar tilak .
at some time in the first decade of the 1900s , khankhoje left india on a voyage that ultimately saw him settle in the united states .
here he enrolled in the washington state college -lrb- now called washington state university -rrb- , graduating in 1913 .
his earliest nationalist work abroad dates back to the time around 1908 when he , along with pandit kanshi ram founded the indian independence league in portland , oregon .
his works also brought him close to other indian nationalists in united states at the time , including taraknath das .
in the years preceding world war i , khankhoje was one of the founding members of the pacific coast hindustan association , and subsequently founded the ghadar party .
he was at the time one of the most influential members of the party .
he met lala har dayal in 1911 .
he also enrolled at one point in a west coast military academy .
through world war i , khankhoje was intricately involved in the hindu-german conspiracy when he was involved in the plans for the mutiny .
he visited europe during the war and subsequently went to mesopotamia along with other members of what was the berlin committee .
in the summer of 1915 , he worked clandestinely among roops of the indian expeditionary force , spreading nationalist literature and hoping to incite a mutiny .
through the course of the war , khankhoje made his way through turkey and persia under different muslim guises as far as baluchistan , spreading ghadarite propaganda en route .
he is known to have attempted insurrections and raised at the iran-baluchistan border while mahendra pratap 's indo-german expedition attempted to rally the afghan emir habibullah khan against british india .
towards the end of the war , khankhoje , like most of the members of the berlin committee , began turing towards communism .
he is known to have been in soviet union in company of the earliest indian communist , including virendranath chattopadhyaya , m. p. t. acharya , m. n. roy , abdur rab barq .
he met lenin at moscow in 1921 .
for his nationalist work at the time , khankoje was banned from returning to india as a highly dangerous individual .
khankhoje later moved to mexico in the 1920s , where he was instated the professor of botany and crop breeding in the national school of agriculture in mexico .
in 1936 , khankhoje married jean alexandrine sindic , a belgian women in mexico by whom he had two daughters .
he led the mexican corn breeding program and was appointed director to the mexican government 's department of agriculture .
both pandurang and jean returned to india after 1947 .
his application for visa was initially rejected by the indian government due to the ban by the british indian government , but was eventually overturned .
he settled in nagpur and subsequently embarked on a political career .
pandurang khankhoje died on january 22 , 1967 .
