12 Facts About Har Dayal

Lala Rudra Dayal Mathur was an Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter.

Har Dayal was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil Service.

Har Dayal's simple living and intellectual acumen inspired many expatriate Indians living in Canada and the US in their campaign against British rule in India during the First World War.

Har Dayal Mathur was born in a Hindu Mathur Kayastha family on 14 October 1884 at Delhi.

Har Dayal studied at the Cambridge Mission School and received his bachelor's degree in Sanskrit from St Stephen's College, Delhi and his master's degree in Sanskrit from Punjab University.

Har Dayal moved to the United States in 1911, where he became involved in industrial unionism.

Har Dayal had served as secretary of the San Francisco branch of the Industrial Workers of the World alongside Fritz Wolffheim,.

Dharmavira has sketched the picture of Lala Har Dayal which is being quoted here in verbatim:.

Har Dayal dedicated his whole life to the sacred cause of the motherland.

Har Dayal was one of the race of those who wrote the New Era in blood.

Har Dayal's course was laborious, truthful, simple, independent, noble; and all these in an eminent degree.

Lala Har Dayal had the Janak and Dadhichi touch and his life demonstrated that he had what it takes.