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Amar Singh

Village: Sandhwan

City: Jalandhar

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.