Har Dayal, LalaHar Dayal also spelled Hardayal, or Hardyal  (
born Oct. 14, 1884 , Delhi—died  Delhi, India—died March 4, 1939
, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. )  Indian revolutionary and scholar
who was dedicated to the removal of British influence in India.
Har Dayal graduated from the Government College, Lahore
(University of the Punjab). On a government Government of India
scholarship to St. John’s College at Oxford, he became a
supporter of the Indian revolutionary movement. In 1907 Har
Dayal resigned his scholarship. He returned to India in 1908 to
further indigenous Indian political institutions and to arouse
his countrymen against British rule, but the government thwarted
his work, and he soon left returned to return to Europe. He
traveled through France and Germany at this time, disseminating
anti-British propaganda and now lauding Western science and
political philosophy as holding the key to a successful
anticolonial struggle. In 1913 he formed the Ghadr (Gadar) Party
, whose purpose was to organize a re