Pandurang Sadashio Khankhoji, son of Sadashio, alias Aimayaji Khankhoji, Wardha District. Central Provinces. His father was a petition writer in the Wardha District. After studying for a short time in the Morris College, Nagpur, he left for America in 1906, making a brief stay at Tokio on his way. On reaching America he joined the Raphoel College, Chicago, where he studied chemistry and the use of explosives. He made a special study of Agriculture in several Universities and in addition to his academic work in the State Agricultural Experiment Station in Pullman, Washington, was engaged in learning some of the manufacturing industries. He came to notice in 1913 as a leading figure in the Ghadr Party and the Vice-President of the Hindustan Association of America. He accompanied Har Dayal in the latter's lecture tour for the proper organization and consolidation of the Ghadr Party, and on some occasions defrayed Har Dyal's expenses. His associates included Surendra Mohan Bose (one of the leading figures in the revolutionary party on the West Coast of America just before and during the Great War), Hamam Singh of Sahri, the bomb-maker (hanged), and Kanshi Ram, an exceedingly dangerous member of the Ghadr Party. He left America for India via Europe with Bishan Das of village Nurmahal, district JuIIundur (formerly a well-known member of the Ghadr Party), and while the latter reached India. Khankhoji stayed behind and arrived in Constantinople early in November 1914 and left for South Persia with one of the German Jihad Missions in December, using the name of Muhammad Khan. In 1915 and 1916 he was in Shiraz engaged in seditious work, and was assisting the late Sufi Amba Pershad and was reported to have been connected with the sending of arms and ammunition via the Persian Committee in Berlin to Kerhasp for use in Baluchistan. He was in Berlin about the end of August 1920 whence he proceeded to Sweden posing as a Persian and passing under the name of Haji Agha Khan and joined the newly formed revolutionary party in Stockholm, evidently to work with Chattopadyaya. Shortly afterwards he set out for Russia under the alias of Professor Hadji Khan to conduct a party of Afridi and Punjabi Army deserters but was recalled by B. N. Dutt to attend a special meeting to discuss future plans of action. Early in 1921 he was reported to be helping G. A. K. Lohani and attending secret meetings in company with other dangerous revolutionaries such as Bhupendra Nath Dutt, Birendra Nath Das Gupta, and Heramba Gupta. At about the same time, he was said to be trying to get into touch with the Persians under cover of business and to be on good terms with the Persian Legation in Berlin. He was in Moscow about the end of May 1921 to attend the conference which was to be held under the auspices of the Russian Soviet Government and the Third International to decide on the best methods for inaugurating and launching a revolution in India. He remained in Moscow for three to four months at the expense of the Soviet Government and was reported to have been in touch with their Foreign Office all the time. Reports about Khankhoji's movements and doings from about the end of 1921 to the middle of 1923 are conflicting but the whole thing can be summed up by saying that during this period he was carrying on his usual revolutionary and Communistic activities in Europe, as the Secretary of the reorganized Indian Revolutionary Council and assisting in the formation of the Indian News and Information Bureau. Having quarreled with Chattopdyaya he left Berlin for Mexico in January 1924. In 1926 his name was found in the list of names and addresses to whom Rattan Singh (R-36) asked Santokh Singh (since dead), village Dodher, district Amritsar to send the ’Kirti', and in the same year his work in Mexico was reported to have been extolled by the Hindustan Association of America. Since then, he has not come to notice much. He was stated to be a Professor of Technical Architecture at the Mexican Government College at Chapingo and about the middle of 1928 he was reported by the Indian National Herald to have been appointed Minister of Agriculture by the President of Mexico. About the middle of 1929 he was proposed by the Mexican Government to be sent on a tour of investigation to the Schools of Tropical Agriculture in British India, but facilities for the same were refused by the Government of India in view of his past activities. Khankhoji arrived in Paris from Mexico in August 1931, travelling on a Mexican passport, and was believed to be in touch with the League. Against Imperialism in Berlin with a view to securing with the help of the Comintern in Moscow, an appointment in Kabul as an Agricultural expert. In November 1931 he was reported to be intending to make his way to Pondicherry and from there to Kabul but the Afghan Legation in Paris refused to give him a visa. Later on he abandoned this intention after receiving definite news from India of the death of his father. Besides it seems likely that in any case he would not have received any assistance from Moscow with regard to the Kabul appointment, as it had emerged that he was expelled from the Mexican Communist Party for writing against the Five Year Plan and the Communist International. About March 1932 he was in Berlin attending a meeting ofthe Hindustan Association.He returned to Mexico from Berlin about the beginning of August 1932 and is believed to have since taken out Mexican naturalisation papers. He has ceased to be a person of much importance from a political point of view. Address : Apartado Postal 2443, Mexico, D. F.

Description : Height 5'; thin build; slightly hunchback; age about 47 years (1932).