Very little is said about how the ideals of American republicanism had inspired a part of the independence movement in India.
Ram Chandra, a co-founder of the Gadar party, a pro-independence party formed in America by expatriate Indians, paid tribute to these roots and this tribute is quoted here in full:
Residence in the U.S. has not made [Indians]…who returned home ‘imbued with revolutionary ideas’ but it has made them republicans.” He added, “The whole country has been stirred by their vision of a United States of India.”
Chandra's mention of American republicanism as a virtue that enables people to stand up against tyranny of foreign rule, reminds me of the sea-change that the word "Republican" has undergone since the 1930s. I'm certain today's American Republicans wouldn't "inspire" revolutionary ideals in the breasts of potential uprisers against any form of tyranny.
