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Jawala Singh

Village: Chak Kalan

City: Jalandhar

Jawala Singh, Aujla, son of Samunda (Samund Singh), Village Chak Kalan (also known as Chak Bagarian), P. S. Nakodar, District Jullundur. He went to California, U. S. A. early in 1923 for prosecuting his studies and has not visited his home since then. Soon after his arrival he delivered an address at a meeting in the Sikh Temple at Stockton giving a resume ofthe then existing conditions in India and the firing by General Dyer at Amritsar. He was dubbed as a revolutionary. According to his own statement he studied for three years at Ann Arbor College, Detroit, before he joined the University ofCalifornia at Barkeley in January 1927. He attended the University upto 1930-31 and also obtained the degree of Master of Science from the College ofAgriculture at Davis, California, in May 1931. He was reported to be a close friend of Teja Singh Sutantar (T-8), and an active Ghadr propagandist. His address at Berkeley was 1731, Allston Way Berkeley, California, a boarding-house frequented by