Dr. Dalip Singh Saund, Ph.D., son of Natha Singh, V. Chahjal Wadi, P. S. Jandiala, District Amritsar. He graduated from the Khalsa College, Amritsar about 1917-19, and went to America where he passed M.A. and Ph.D. He first came to notice in 1921 when he was the Secretary of the California Chapter of the Hindustan Association of America. In 1923 he was reported to be the President of the Association and advocated Gandhi's doctrine of passive resistance. In 1927 he was reported to be interested in organising a land owning company in Northern California. He was one of the subscribers towards the funds of the Khalsa Diwan Society in 1927. He is the author of a book entitled "My Mother India" the entry of which into India was prohibited under the Sea Customs Act and which purports to be a reply to Miss Mayo's book "Mother India". In 1928 it was reported that he might possibly have been financially assisted by the Ghadr Party in the production of this book. In August 1927 a highly objectionable article entitled "The Problem of India" by Dr. Saund came to notice. He was reported to be the sender of an Independence resolution to Jawahar Lal Nehru in February 1930. In 1928 he was described as the leader of the Sikh students of the University of California, and a student member of the Ghadr Party at San Francisco. On 10th November 1930 he addressed the Foreign Relations Group of the Women's University Club of Los Angeles, during the course of which he compared Mahatma Gandhi to other great prophets of the world and said that the power of American public opinion was needed to complete the ruin of British rule in India, which he said was ruining the country. He is said to be an able writer and a fluent speaker but without any principles. He could not be identified at the village mentioned. He has settled permanently in America and is reported to be well-to-do.