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Charan Singh

Village: Duleta

City: Jalandhar

Charan Singh, son of Attar Singh, Village Duleta, Police Station Phillaur, District JuIIundur. Is reported to have gone to Vancouver, Canada, about 15/20 years ago. Was one of the seven Sikhs who left America in the Spring of 1925 with Mahendra Pratap on an anti-British mission to Tibet. After the failure of the mission he was in Japan in the beginning of September 1926 with Bishan Singh (B-70) and Shamsher Singh of Sursing (S-38). From Japan he corresponded with Munsha Singh (M-55), Secretary of the Ghadr Party in San Francisco, and Pritam Singh of Dhand Kasel (P-29) who was then in Moscow. He joined Dasaundha Singh Mann (D-16), Ganda Singh (G-l), Indar Singh of Tuto Maira (1-5), and Dulla Singh of Khera (D-34), in Peking on the 13th September 1926. He made a speech on the occasion of Guru Nanak's birthday celebrations held at the Ghadr Ashram, Peking in October 1926 in which he praised the "Desh Sewak" of JuIIundur for its outspoken accounts of the oppression inflicted on the Babar Akalis in the Punjab by a tyrannical Government. He was in Hankow on the 26th January 1927 with Desaundha Singh Mann in association with whom he took a leading part in organising the activities of the Hindustan Ghadr Dhandora Party there. In the split which occurred in the seditionist party in Hankow in Arugust 1927 he joined the faction headed by Pritam Singh of Dhand Kasel. He took part in the reception to M.N. Roy on the occasion of the latter's visit to Hankow in April 1927. In March 1929 he was reported to be in Peking and to have received $ 300 from Mexico and to be in close touch with Dr. Herbert Mueller, a local Chinese Communist, and with a Bolshevik agent who had visited him from Tientsin. About that time he was reported to have formed a small seditionist party in Peking. He was reported to have attended an Akhand Path celebrated in the Paoshing Road Gurdwara from 10th to 12th April 1931 in honour of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru (the murderers of a Police officer in India). The speeches which were delivered there were reported to be very violent calling upon all Indians to follow their (Bhagat Singh and others) examples. Has not yet returned home. Address in April 1933—P.O. Box 24, Peking, China. His cousin, Jawala Singh is a previous convict. Owns landed property.

Description : Age about 50 years; fair complexion; round face; small eyes; keeps long hair on head; height 5'-7".