Ishar Singh, "Gunam", son of Sahib Singh, Village Goram, District
Ludhiana. He went to America about 1915. He was reported to have
borne a good character while at home. He presided at a Ghadr meeting at
Stockton. California, on 12th January 1924, at which resolutions were
passed for the assistance of the family of Jawala Singh, and expressing
sympathy with the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee and the
Babbar Akalis, and at which he was elected to the Ghadr State
Committee. In 1928 he was reported to be studying at Berkeley
University, and to be an active Ghadr Party worker. Shortly afterwards he
joined the Hindustan National Party formed in opposition to the Ghadr
Party by residents of the Malwa. In 1932 he was residing at El Centro,
California, and in June of that year wrote a letter to S. Gopal Singh
Khalsa, Lahore asking for certain books on the Kuka movement and a list
of Kukas in Burma, Aden, and Ceylon adding that he would deal with the Kuka movement also in publishing the history ofthe Ghadr movement. In
the factional disputes in California, he has taken the part of Sher Singh
Sathi (since dead), in the latter's quarrel with the Ghadr Party.