Gadar Directory

Dr. Dalip Singh Saund

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.

City: Amritsar

Village: Jandiala

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Dalip Singh

Dalip Singh, alias Tara Singh, son of Diwan Singh, Jatt of Purhiran, P. S. Mahilpur, District Hoshiarpur. He went to Canada in 1907 in the company of Puran Singh of village Purhiran, district Hoshiarpur and Mehar Singh originally of Purhiran but now of Chak 64/4-R., P. S. Nur Shah, District Montgomery (both were formerly connected with the Ghadr Party), where he was closely connected with the Ghadr Movement. He was reported to have sent copies of the "Ghadr" to India and left Canada for India with bombs in his possession in 1914. He was traced at his home in India where it was reported that he had been active in the campaign and had given an automatic pistol to Banta Singh of Sangwal (hanged) with whom he was very intimate. He subsequently joined the party which attempted to commit a dacoity at Bhainwal. He was interned in 1915 and released in 1918 and restricted to his village with security. The restrictions were cancelled in 1919. He is said to have committed many murders, and was challenged for the murder of his uncle in 1927, but was acquitted. He is now working on his lands and corresponds with Omindar Singh, son of Ram Singh of Bahowal, P.S. Mahilpur, who is in California.

Description : Wheat complexion; age about 60 years; height 5-7"; white

City: Hoshiarpur

Village: Mahilpur

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Fazal Din

Fazal Din, son of Ghaus Mohammad, Kumhar, Village Chuga Kalan, P. S. Dharmkot, District Ferozepore. Went to the U. S. A. in 1907. He was in Brawley, U. S. A. about 1916 and was reported to be an educated man who lectured frequently for the Ghadar cause. He was present at the Ashram on the occasion of the celebration of the third Anniversary of the Ghadar Press. He was then on Ramchandra's mailing list. He also contributed $25 to the fund raised by Ram Chandra’s lieutenants. In 1919 he was reported to have joined Bhagwan Singh's ranks. In May of that year he visited Stockton and tried to enlist Mohammedan support for the Sikh Ghadar regime, but apparently with little success, and returned to Brawley after a month and took up farming. In December he attended the Ghadar meeting convened by Bhagwan Singh of v. Viring, d. Amritsar (formerly a leader of the Ghadar Party) in Brawley, being one of the few Mohammedans present. He was elected to the local district Committee of the Ghadar Party. His name figured as one of the Advisory Board of the F.F.I. in New York and in March 1920 he was chosen as a member of the General Committee of the Ghadar Party. About 1923 he was said to have been elected to serve on the Comrade Educational Committee, Brawley, which was to work in conjunction with the Malwa Sudharak Committee. At a meeting of the Ghadar Party at Sacramento in December 1923 he emphasized that the two parties should commence to work in a united manner. He returned to India on 18th May 1924. He was then reported by the local Police to be of a good character and to be holding no political views. In 1928 he went to Panama, where he soon assumed the role of a Ghadrite. In March 1932 he was said to be working in the Hindi Supply Company, which was partially owned by the Ghadr Party, and to be working as,one of the Secretaries of the Panama Branch of the Ghadr Party. In September 1932 he applied for passport facilities to return to India via France and Italy. It was reported that the Ghadr Party intended to send him to India via Marseilles in order that he might meet Teja Singh Sutantar, (T-8). The British Consular authorities were prepared to issue a passport of restricted validity which he declined to accept. He is at present in Panama and it is possible that he may attempt to come to India without a passport.

Description : Height 5'-9"; grey hair; black moustache; small pox marks; speaks English well.

City: Ferozepore

Village: Chuga Kalan

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Dalip Singh

D-4. Dalip Singh, son of Narain Singh, Jat, Village Dhakowal, P. S. Sadr, District Hoshiarpur. Went to America about 1907. In 1928 he was reported to be an active Ghadr Party Worker in California and in the following year was stated to be a regular quarterly subscriber to the Ghadr Party on behalf of the Kirti. Is still in America where his address is:—Newcastle P.O. Box 392, California, U.S.A. Owns landed property jointly with his brother Bhan Singh, who lives at the village.

Description : Wheat complexion; height 5-8"; stout build; knows Gurmukhi.

City: Hoshiarpur

Village: Dhakowal

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Fazal Elahi

Fazal Elahi, Malik, alias Qurban, alias John Charles, son of Haji Malik Karam Elahi, an employee in the Punjab Government Press, caste Kakezai of Kucha Kakezain, Lahore City. Was a student in the Islamia High School, Lahore, where he developed strong fanatical religious views. Migrated to Afghanistan during the Hijrat movement of 1920 and there joined the party of the Indian Muhajirin headed by Mohammad Akbar Khan, a prominent pan-lslamist of the Frontier Province. After staying for a couple of months in Afghanistan he proceeded to Russia with the object of joining the Turks in Anatolia to fight against the Allies. On arrival at Tashkent he, along with other Muhajirin, was persuaded by M. N. Roy, the notorious Indian Communist, to join the Moscow Communist Party and Fazal Elahi accordingly joined the Moscow University to undergo training as a secret service agent of that party. While there he married a Russian wife and subsequently made his way to Germany where he studied engineering. Travelled extensively in Europe as a worker of the Soviet agency run by M. N. Roy for the dissemination of Communist literature in India. In December 1926 he travelled from Marseilles to India under the assumed name of P. P. Mookerjee holding a bogus passport. Visited a number of places in India, including possibly Lahore, where he delivered messages to the Indian Communists on behalf of M. N. Roy and was endeavoring to return to Europe when he was arrested at Bombay being in possession of Communist literature and a sum of Rs. 1,260 in cash. He was prosecuted at Peshawar under Section 121-A, I. P. C. and sentenced to 5 years' R. I. (reduced to 3 years' R. I. on appeal) on 6th August 1927 was released from the Lahore Central Jail on 16th November 1929. He soon threw in his lot with members of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, Lahore, and attended most of the political meetings held at Lahore. Was taken on the staff of the Workers' Home, established by the Punjab Provincial Naujawan Bharat Sabha for the purpose of training national workers. Is believed to have visited Meerut secretly in order to interview the under-trial prisoners in the Meerut Conspiracy Case, in July 1930. Associated with Abdul Warris, a Moscow trained propagandist, and Ghulam Mohammed Aziz (G-17), a fanatic and a revolutionary, and conspired with them to re-establish their connection with the Third International in Moscow. Was consequently interned in September 1930 in the Dharamsala Jail under Regulation III of 1818.

City: Gujrat

Village: Marala

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