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Ishar Singh Gunam

Village: Goram

City: Ludhiana

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.