Pandurang Khankhoje

Recently, Lok Sabha Speaker unveiled statue of Maharashtra-born freedom fighter and agriculturalist Pandurang Khankhoje in Mexico.

About Pandurang Khankhoje

  • He was born in Wardha, Maharashtra.
  • He was an ardent admirer of the French Revolution and of the American War of Independence.
  • Khankhoje moved to the US, where he enrolled in college as a student of agriculture.
  • But a year later, he joined the Mount Tamalpais Military Academy in California to fulfil his original purpose of leaving India.

Association with the Indian Independence Movement

  • He was one of the founding members of the Ghadar Party, established by Indians living abroad in 1914, ....
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