Amin Chand Sharma, son of Nand Lal, alias Nand Ram, Brahmin, of V.
Dhusarab, P. S. Una, District Hoshiarpur. He was a student of the D.A.V.
College, Lahore and leaving it went to San Francisco. America in 1909 or
1910 with the late Shiv Deo Singh of Sialkot and the late Kidar Nath of
Hariana (who belonged to the Ghadr Party). While in India he was
reported to have held anti-British views. On arrival in America in 1910 he
joined the Ghadr Party and from 1912 to the early part of 1915 was
reported to have been in California doing odd jobs in partnership with
Karta Ram (K-28), and Shiv Deo Singh. About the middle of 1915 he
was said to have paid a secret visit to Baghdad under the assumed name
of Mubarik Ali in company with Rishi Kesh of Hoshiarpur (since dead),
Kidar Nath and a few other notorious Ghadrites. All these persons were
deputed by Ramchandra to carry on anti-British propaganda on behalf of
the German Government. The Turks ordered their expulsion from
Baghdad on suspicion that they were German agents. Subsequently he
found his way to Berlin in company with the notorious Bengali
revolutionary Virendra Nath Chattopadyaya, Rishi Kesh, Karta Ram and
others. From Berlin he was reported to be sending Roy's communist
books and newspapers to India packed with other goods. In 1926 he
applied to the British Consulate. Berlin, for a British passport, but the
Secretary of State in view of his past record, recommended the grant of
an emergency certificate valid for a single direct journey to India. He is
still in Germany enagaged in the gut trade and is reported to be of no
importance now.