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Bhag Singh

Village: Makhsuspur

City: Hoshiarpur

Bhag Singh, B.A., alias Master Bhag Singh, son of Sundar Singh, Jat, Village Makhsuspur, P. S. Mahilpur, District Hoshiarpur. After passing the Matriculation Examination from the Nadalon School he joined the Kapurthala College, which he soon left as a result of the Akali agitation. He, however, rejoined the Dayal Singh College, Lahore, and after passing the F. A. examination, joined the Khalsa High School at-Hoshiarpur as a teacher. He worked for some time as Editor of the 'Desh Sewak', Jullundur, and about the middle of 1927 was reported to have been selected by Bhag Singh Canadian (B-47) as one of a deputation of five, whom the latter intended to send to Rangoon for the ostensible purpose of collecting funds for the restoration of the Anandpur Gurdwara, but in reality to be sent to Russia via China for military training there, in response to the demand of Sikh revolutionaries abroad for more workers. This scheme, however, does not seem to have materialised, and in December 1927 he went to California after having managed to obtain a passport on the false recommendation of a lambardar of his village. He was reported to have held extreme political views while in India and to have joined all the political Diwans of the Doaba and delivered speeches on various occasions. In America he is reported to have been assisting the Ghadr Party intermittently and latterly has been doing translation work for them. In the latter half of 1930 his address was P. O. Box 58, Berkeley, California. He wrote to his friends from this address, especially to Master Sundar Singh of Lyallpur, extolling the merits of the latter's paper 'Melu1 and urging young men to go to foreign countries for higher education. From his correspondence it was evident that he was associated with Piara Singh of Langeri (P-25) while the latter was in America (1928-30). He is a close friend of Dalip Singh ofNangal Kalan, District Hoshiarpur (D-5), ex-President of the Ghadr Party. In 1931 he was reported to be studying for his Ph. D. at Berkeley, California.