Dr.

Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje was born in 7

November, 1884 ,an Indian revolutionary, scholar,
agricultural scientist and historian who was among
the founding fathers of the Ghadar Party.

Khankhoje was born in 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.

From his schooldays he dedicated himself in

freedom movement. He always believed that he had a
mission in life. He want to free his motherland from
the chains of British rule. He had a great respect for
Bal Gangadhor Tilak. He met with him in Puna, both of
them believed that military training of people would
be necessary for freedom of India. For taking military
training that time in India one need to go outside.
Tilak advised him to go Japan. For communication
purpose he gave him a secret code.
Observing his revolutionary working in student
life, his father told him to marry and giving
concentration in family. Pandurang knowing the
marriage would surely come in his way to serve his
motherland, he escaped from his own marriage
ceremony. He want to go out, but the problem was
that he had no sufficient money at that time for going
outside India. Knowing it, his mother decided to sale
her jewelries to gave him the required money. But
Pandurang was not agree to sale his mother jewelries.
At last his mother gave him some hand-made sweets
and told him to take them at the time of great
difficulties. Later Pandurang found that each of the
sweet was containing one gold coin.

In the year 1906, Pandurang left India. That time

the best way for a revolutionary to go out was to take
a job in any sheep going out of India. Pandurang took
job in French sheep. At first the sheep went to
Colombo, then Saigon and at last it reached
Yeakohama. After that traveling in a train he went to
Tokyo. There he met with the student of ‘India house’.
For earning his livinghood,he started work sometime
as industrial labour and again sometime as English
teacher In Japan, 1908 he, along with some other
Indian revolutionaries founded the Indian
Independence League. Later in the year 1915,another
revolutionary Rashbihari Bose took the charge of I.I.L.
And during 2nd world war, I.I.L gave great support to
Netaji Subash and I.N.A.

In Japan, he met with a number of renown people

including Japanese prime minister Kount Okuma and
famous Chinese revolutionary Dr. san yeath who told
him that development of agriculture is very important
for development of economy of free nation. Later
Pandurang took both military and modern agriculture
training very sincerely.

After that Pandurang went to sanfransisco,

America . He then got admitted himself in Oregon
Agricultural College, His works also brought him close
to other Indian nationalists in United States at the
time, including Taraknath Das. In America, for earning
living hood , he took the job of waiter, road labour. He
met many labours of Mexico, and also a good number
of Mexican revolutionaries. He got admitted himself in
Mount Tamalpais Military academy. After study of 2
years, in the year 1910 he got the degree.

His earliest nationalist work in U.S.A dates back to the

time around 1908 when he, along with Pandit Kanshi
Ram founded the Indian Independence League in
Portland, Oregon. Pandit Kanshi Ram was the head,
Mohan singh became secretary. Pandurang did not
took any post, he loved to work behind others. In
U.S.A he met with a number of people of shikh
religion. He modified the name of I.I.L and after it
became Azad-hi-hind .
He was at the time one of the most influential
members of the party. He met Lala Har Dayal in 1911..
In the years preceding the World War I, Khankhoje
was one of the founding members of the Pacific coast
Hindustan association, and subsequently founded the
Ghadar Party. Lala hor Dayal became the secretary
and also editor of Ghadar newspaper. The name of
Ghadar headquarter was given ‘Jugantar’ inspiring
from the Bengali revolutionaries. The activities of
Ghadar was divided in two ways. propaganda and
action group. Pandurang was the in charge of action
group.
 The first world war were to be started.
Pandurang communicated with Germans and also with
the Mexican revolutionaries. The first world war
started. Members of Ghadar party went to Germany
and Japan participate in world war against the British
Govt. Pandurang decided to came back India via the
way of Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. Through World
War I, Khankhoje was intricately involved in the
Hindu-German Conspiracy when he was involved in
the plans for the mutiny. He had joined a western 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 came to India and met with his ideal
person Bal Gangadhor Tilak and after that he went to
Germany and then Russia. Pandurang like most of the
members of the Berlin committee began turning
towards communism. He was known to have been in
Soviet Union in company of the earliest Indian
communist. He met with Lenin twice.

Khankhoje later moved to Mexico in the 1920s,

There he concentrated in agricultural science.
Research on maize gave him fame as a n agricultural
scientist. Later 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 was 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.

He recognized only three freedom movement,

they were 1857 revolt, Ghadar movement and the
movement of I.N.A . It was the common dream of
every Indian revolutionary to participate in the fight
against the British Government . Netaji Subash was
able to implement their dream to some extent, under
his leadership I.N.A fought against the British army .
Pandurang in his last days used said that he had
done all what was possible for him for serving his
motherland, if there would anything to be done, he
would be ready to do that also.In his young age when
someone asked him if he was arrested by british what
would he do. In reply he said he had done nothing
wrong, he was just serving his motherland and
nothing more. In his words “I shall never ask for
pardon “