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Echoes and Intersections I 91
Meanwhile, he continued voraciously to process additional
material into the mix of what he both practiced
and preached, having "developed a great respect for and
sympathy with the teachings of Count Tolstoy, then known
as one of the world's leading 'philosophic anarchists."'2
Har Dayal declared himself a supporter of Ricardo Flores
Mag6n and his anarcho-syndicalist Partido Liberal
Mexicano, and quietly assisted in the cross-border mobilization
to liberate Mexico from the clutches of northern
capitalists and rival comprador warlords. Ghadar's designated
military coordinator, Pandurang Khankhoje, also
became friends with Mag6n and even for a time contemplated
sending Indians from California to train with
Mexican revolutionaries. Khankhoje later spent many
years in Mexico, and made Significant contributions as an
agricultural scientist through the strains of high-yield corn
he developed. His friend Diego Rivera depicted him in a
famous mural, distributing bread with a benevolent smileY
Brooks recalled that Har Dayal had held a gathering
at Brooks's home in 1912 during which he "boldly affirmed
that the international social revolution was his only
interest."29 Brooks later described his friend in light of
Bakunin's definition of a revolutionist as one who
"has no interests, no affairs, no feelings, no attachmcnts
of his own, no property, not evcn a name:'
having broken with the codes and convCl1tions that
govern other people and having only "one thought,
one passion: revolution." ... For, whether as an
Indian nationalist or an anarchist internationalist,