year half researching rabindranath tagore's visits incident caught attention apparently assassination attempt rabindranath indians visit francisco october piece information shocked started matter looked books tagore regarded scholars slowly image started shape refrain details accounts published books attached bibliography matters context quote references francisco examiner october reported word plot assasinate rabindranath tagore hindu poet nobel prize winner reached police yesterday extraordinary precautions guard apartment palace hotel columbia theatre lectured afternoon newspapers carried story allegations pointing indian revolutionary organization ghadar operating primarily based writings ghadar leader ramchandra ramchandra denied allegation rabindranath countrymen cancel assignments signed statement angeles examiner october cancelled engagements santa barabara train arranged manager plot assassinate fullest confidence sanity countrymen fulfill engagements police protection opportunity emphatically assert plot assassinate submit farce guarded police hope relieved rest visit country calcutta statesman published report anonymous ghadar party activist returned living years tagore visited united states party deputed members murder poet hotel francisco staying fell lobby hotel difference opinion tagore murdered plot disclosed motive attempted murder party regarded tagore agent british government responding query ramananda chattopadhyay news article rabindranath gave detailed account protected police days reiterated trust countrymen time mention speeches nationalism received indians audience feel strong sense antagonism fact remains heinous plot conceived story told play rajar chithi based incident considered history work pure fiction based historical references characters fictitious inspired real characters period involved nationalist movement inspiration character mary american woman time actively helped indian freedom struggle play departure kind plays produce ecta stories theater story story predecessors country struggled survival freedom homeland play pass judgement policies beliefs nationalist freedom fighters india philosophy rabindranath tagore nationalism universal humanism play depict eternal conflict indoctrinated dogma conscience organized beliefs common sense brain heart conflict relevant today early part twentieth century earlier process play makes great genius rabindranath tagore light bibliography sikhs swamis students spies india lobby united states harold gould tagore panchanan saha rabindranath tagore myriad minded krishna dutta andrew robinson life letters revolutionary exile tapan mukherjee rabindranath tagore america stephen passage america sujit mukherjee nationalism rabindranath tagore cast outcast dhan gopal mukherjee daughter earth agnes smedley letters friend rabindranath tagore's letters andrews rabindranath tagore http gadar homestead gadarhist html gadar heritage foundation selected letters rabindranath tagore krishna dutta andrew robinson 