J-l. Jagan Nath Sharma, Village Rohke, District Amritsar. He read up to the Matriculation standard in a school at Ajnala and went to China and thence to the U. S. A. in 1921. He held extreme views from his very youth. In the U. S. A. he worked as a labourer for 2 years, and then joined the Berkeley University to study chemistry. In 1926 he was President of a short-lived society called "The Sons ofBharat" the student wing of, and supported by the Ghadr Party formed in November 1925 with the object of inculcating in the minds ofstudents a sense of nationalism. J. N. Sharma was reported to be particularly bitter and to be taking a course of chemistry with the alleged intention of manufacturing bombs on his return to India. In 1927 Sharma joined the Hindustan Association of America but the following year he was reported to have given up politics, which he found was interfering with his studies. About 1928 or 1929 he was described as an active worker of the since defunct Hindustan National Party. In March 1930 he delivered a lecture on "India's declaration of Independence" to the San Francisco Theosophical Society. Though not actually a member of the Ghadr Party he boasts that his chief aim in life is to serve his country and to train young men in the preparation of war material". He is a person whose bark is worse than his bite.