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Dalip Singh

Village: Nakodar

City: Jalandhar

Dalip Singh, son of Roda Singh, of Nakodar, District Jullundur. Reported by the Canadian authorities to have been an important member of the seditious party in Vancouver. Left Canada for India by the s.s. "Persia’’ on 2nd November 1911. Returned to India by the s.s. "Kut Sang" in January 1915 and was one of a party headed by Hafiz Abdulla, of village Jagraon, district Ludhiana (hanged in the Second Supplementary Lahore Conspiracy Case) who proved to be troublesome on board the ship, and to the examining officers at Calcutta and Ludhiana. Was restricted to his very inflammatory letter to Bhagat Singh. Pleader of Jullundur, and the Dalip Singh of Revelstoke, Canada, and who also wrote to Chaudhri Narain Chand of Bilga, Jullundur, in praise of the Ghadr. This name was also found among the correspondence of Hamam Singh of village Shari. district Hoshiarpur, the bomb-maker, who was hanged in the Burma Conspiracy Case.) Again went to Manila in 1920 and returned to India by the s.s. ’’President Grant" and reached his village on 13th November 1929. He participated in the Congress agitation in 1930. Dalip Singh again went to Manila at the end of March 1933.

Description : Age about 60 years; wheat complexion; height 5’-5!4": eyes v brown; hair and beard grey; lame.