Maia Ramnath - Decolonizing Anarchism.pdf - Libcom

100 I Ramnath
Har Dayal had written,
Dear Comrade: I am well and busy. Can you send
some earnest and sincere comrades, men and women,
to help our Indian revolutionary party at this
juncture ? TIley should be persons of good character
.... Kindly also send me names and addresses
of the prominent anarchist comrades in Spain,
Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland,
Italy, Germany, Austria, and other European countries.
Please also send letters of introduction fo r
me to them from Emma or yourself, if you know
them. With love and respect, Yo urs fo r the cause,
Har Dayal.
In the second letter a couple of days later, he was still "well
and busy;' but also "sad;' because "we have lost some very
brave comrades in the recent skirmishes ... we are fighting
against heavy odds." He repeated the request fo r aid and
reinforcements, suggesting the "real fighters, LW\V. s or
anarchists" who might be found in !'Je;v York or Paterson,
New Jersey.47
But guilt by such indirect association was not enough.
Confident that deportation would be easy ifhe could only
come up with damning evidence of anarchist convictions,
Hopkinson set out to find it-such as the "large stock
of anarchist literature" (unspecified) that police found
in the possession of Ram Nath Puri, one of the early Bay
Area radicals with whom Har Dayal was in communication.
Arter a year of attending Har Dayal's public lectures,