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Source: Williamson, H. (1934, March 29). [Official correspondence]. Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, Government of India.

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Amar Singh
Amar Singh, son of Sundar Singh, Jat, V. Haripur, P. S. Nakodar, District Jullundur. Went to America about 1908/9. He was an important member of the Ghadr Party at San Francisco in 1928. In 1929 he was reported to be a regular quarterly subscriber to the Ghadr Party on behalf of the Kirti fund. Has not returned so far.

City: Jalandhar

Village: Haripur


Amar Singh
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.

City: Jalandhar

Village: Sandhwan


Amar Singh
Amar Singh, son of Wariam Singh, Jat, of Sherpura Kalan, P. S. Jagraon, District Ludhiana. Is semi-educated and knows Gurmukhi. Went to Siam in 1903 and once returned home. Was a Surveyor on the railway in Siam, and a very important member of the Ghadr Party. In consultation with all the leaders of sedition is believed to have financed the Siam revolutionary movement to no small extent and to have concocted with Sohan Lal (hanged) the revolutionary mission to Burma, which cost Sohan Lal his life. Was a regular recipient and distributor of the Ghadr and used to correspond with the late Ram Chandra of Peshawar. Ajit Singh alias Hasan Khan (A-ll) stayed with him when he went to Manila. Was sentenced to death in the second Mandalay Conspiracy Case but the sentence was subsequently commuted to one of 25 years’ R.I. Is undergoing imprisonment in the Rangoon Central Jail. The question of his conditional release was taken up in 1929 and again in 1932 and 1933 but it was decided to postpone it.

City: Ludhiana

Village: Sherpura Kalan


Amin Chand Sharma
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.

City: Hoshiarpur

Village: Dhusarab


Amrik Singh
Amrik Singh, son of Jai Singh, Chadah Sikh, of Thanil Kamal, District Jhelum. A motor driver who was stated by Sewa Singh (S-30) to have been a prominent member of the Ghadr Party in East Persia in 1931. Amrik Singh acted as a courier to Sewa Singh and was alleged to have been involved in a plot to murder British officials in East Persia. In January 1932, the question of his deportation to India was taken up, and he was called to Teheran where after being kept for a year he was persuaded to return to India.

City: Jhelum

Village: Thanil Kamal