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By Kaydor Aukatsang
The struggle for our homeland must be financed by us. If we don’t, no one will.
In 1921, Mahatma Gandhi launched the Tilak Swaraj Fund, which raised around one crore rupees in six months through mass small donations. Worth close to ₹1,000 crore (roughly US$105 million) in today’s terms, the money financed his Non-Cooperation Movement against British colonial rule in India.
Other independence movements were sustained in much the same way. Michael Collins launched the Dáil Loan bonds in 1919 to finance the Irish independence movement. Sun Yat-sen raised much of his funding from overseas Chinese communities to fuel the 1911 Rev...
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