Amar Singh, son of Sher Singh, V. Sandhwan, District Jullundur. First
arrived in Panama about 1915 and was reported by a returned emigrant to
be a leader of the Ghadr Party there. At a Diwan of the Sikhs held in
January 1925 in Panama he denounced the British rale in India and
contributed a sum of Rs. 10,470 towards the Panj Paisa Fund. In 1925 his
address was Post Box 605, Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama R.P. About the
middle of 1925 he wrote a letter from the above address to the editor of
the 'Bande Matram', Lahore, congratulating him on the fearless manner in
which he published the alleged prosecution of the Akalis in the Punjab.
According to a letter published in the 'Akali-te-Pardeshi' on 12th October 1926 a sum of Rs. 2,695 was collected by Amar Singh and his
compatriots in Panama and sent to Baba Wasakha Singh (W-6) and
Santokh Singh of Dodher (since dead) in aid of the Desh Bhagat Qaidi
Parwar Sahaik Fund (Fund for the relief of the families of political
prisoners). He was reported to have arrived at his village in the middle of
1928.