Godha Ram, alias Chunnanji, son of Channa Ram, Arora, of Karadlu, District Shahpur. After passing the Matriculation examination he was employed as a Patwari in Lyallpur and on settlement duty in Patiala State and Gurdaspur. Thereafter worked in the offices of the Deputy Commissioners of Gurdaspur and Amritsar and went to America in 1913. Spoke at a big meeting at Fresno in January 1915 at which the late Ram Chandra Peshawari (then leader of the Ghadr Party) also spoke. Became Secretary of the Ghadr organization under Har Dyal and Ram Chandra. During 1914 and 1915 he was the only man who had definite information about German funds. In January 1915 he was appointed Treasurer of the Pacific Coast Hindustan Association. In September 1916 he sent articles on American constitution and politics to the editor of the "Desh". After Ram Chandra's exposure he withdrew from his party but later rejoined the new party organized by him. Was prosecuted in the San Francisco Case for infringing the neutrality laws of America and sentenced to 11 months’ imprisonment in 1917. After his release from jail, he re-started his seditious activities. In 1920 he was in correspondence with many persons in Europe and was active in winning the sympathy of the Russians. In the following year, he was trying to develop a business between India and the United States of America. About the end of April 1922, he was endeavoring to complete his naturalization as an American subject. At a meeting of the Hindus at Sacramento on 3rd January 1923 he extolled the ideals of the Ghadr Party and discouraged the idea of a fusion of the Ghadr and the Indian National Congress saying that it would defer the day of freedom. About the same time, he was responsible with a few others, for the formation of the Hindu Sathayata Society for assisting Mrs. Ram Chandra and other humanitarian purposes. In January 1925 he petitioned to H. E. the Viceroy through H. B. M's. Consul-General at San Francisco who supported his application, praying for the grant of full amnesty for his past misdeeds. In reply he was informed that the Government of India would not proceed against him for his past misdeeds unless he misconducted himself afresh, but that he would be liable to surveillance until Government was satisfied as to the genuineness of his conversion. It was, however, reported in December 1927 that he was again, noticed associating with active members of the Ghadr Party and to have been the moving spirit in the formation of a "New Hindustan Association" amongst the students at the University ofCalifornia. He was also a member of a special sub-committee entrusted with the task of preparing an answer to Miss Mayo's book "Mother India". Was present at a dinner given to Gurmukh Singh (G-54) and Piara Singh (P-25) in October 1928 by a batch of students at the University of California during which speeches criticizing the proposed Public Safety Bill were delivered. In November 1928 he wrote to a certain Indian in Shanghai saying that the freedom of India depended on a close friendship with the Chinese. Early in 1930 he formed an association called the "Indo- American Association" devised to increase his reputation among Americans and his compatriots and financed to a certain extent by Gobind Behari Lal son of Bishan Lal Mathur, a Tahsildar of Bikanir subsequently settled in Delhi (formerly a prominent member of the Ghadr Party). About the same time, he organized with the assistance of Ram Nath Puri (R-17), a party called the "Bharat Welfare Society" with headquarters at Marysville of which he was the President. The object of the Society was stated to be to spread pro-Indian propaganda in U. S. A. through the medium of Indian students and lend assistance to the Indian National Congress. Is believed to be still in America.