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Indar Singh

Village: Tuto Majra

City: Hoshiarpur

Indar Singh, son of Kahan Singh, Jat, Village Tuto Majra, Tehsil Garh Shankar, District Hoshiarpur. He is one of the seven Sikhs who left America in the Spring of 1925 with Mehendra Pratap on an anti-British mission to Tibet. After the failure of the mission, he was in Peking in the Autumn of 1926 in the company of Dasaundha Singh Mann (D-16), Charan Singh of Duleta (C-15), and others. He arrived in Hankow from Peking on 26th March 1927 and joined the above-mentioned persons in association with whom he took an active part in the seditious activities of the Hankow branch of the Ghadr Party. Seditious articles over his name appeared from time to time in the "Hindustan Ghadr Dhandora". When a split occurred in the seditionist party in Hankow, Indar Singh deserted his "American" comrades and joined the local Hankow faction headed by Ganda Singh of Santawala (G-5), and Narain Singh of Gandiwind (N-18), which was formed in opposition to Pritam Singh of Dhand Kasel (P-29), Bishan Singh of Burjraike (B-70) and Charan Singh of Duleta (C-15). He was photographed with M. N. Roy, the notorious Communist, on the occasion of the latter's visit to Hankow in April 1927. He left Hankow for Nanking early in September 1927 and organized at the latter place, a center of the Eastern Oppressed People's Association with the assistance of his friends, and published revolution with the assistance of his friends, and published revolutionary pamphlets which were distributed in large numbers in Shanghai, Hankow, and Tientsin. He was in receipt of a monthly allowance of two hundred dollars from the Kuomintang. He was in close association with Mahendra Pratap during the latter's stay in Nanking in November 1927. He apparently returned later to Hankow for he is reported to have left the latter place for North China in July 1928 with Bishan Singh Burj, Charan Singh of Duleta, Pritam Singh of Dhand Kasel and Rattan Singh of Raipur Doaba (R-36). In September 1928 he was reported to have left Peking for Manchuria with Pritam Singh. In 1931 he was reported to be in Moscow as a representative of the Ghadr Party there, but shortly afterwards it was said he was no longer viewed with favour by the Comintern and had left Moscow for some other part of Russia. According to unconfirmed information received from his village, Indar Singh was believed to have gone to some State, probably the Nepal State, accompanied by Bhagwan Singh Updeshak. According to latest information, Indar Singh was known to be in South America in July 1933.

Description : Age 35/40 years; wheat complexion; medium height; thin build.