Piara Singh, alias Karam Singh, son of Lakha Singh, of Langeri, P. S. Mahilpur, District Hoshiarpur. He left for Canada in 1906 and joined the agitation against the entry of the "Komagata Maru". While in Canada he worked as Treasurer of the United India League and later on as an itinerant Granthi. He was also a share holder in the Sansar Press of Dr. Sundar Singh. He left San Francisco on board the s. s. "Korea" on 29th August 1914 and disembarked at Nagasaki with Nidhan Singh of village Choga, district Ferozepore (an ex-convict in the Lahore Conspiracy Case), Waryam Singh of village Kamalpura, district Ludhiana (a deceased Ghadrite), and two others with the intention of proceeding to Shanghai and thence to India. He arrived at Calcutta on the 15th of October 1914, and then took to touring the countryside to spread disaffection, and also visited Bannu for the purpose of tampering with the loyalty of Indian troops. He was restricted to his village, but absconded and later arrested and sent for trial in the Lahore Conspiracy Case. He was sentenced to transportation for life, and while serving his term in the Rawalpindi jail he made an abortive attempt to make bombs. He was conditionally released in 1920 under the Royal Amnesty. He then became a member of the Sikh League and the S. G. P. C. and organized an Akali Jatha with himself as its Jathedar. At the same time, he was in touch with Sikh revolutionaries abroad and receiving financial help from them. In November 1921 he was elected President of the American Canadian Society, the object of which was to establish national schools in the Doaba, and start revolutionary papers on the lines of the "Ghadr." He accordingly started the "Pardesi Khalsa" newspaper. He indirectly assisted the Babbar Akali Jatha which carried on a campaign of murder of loyalists in the Doaba in 1923-24. He was arrested in the Akali Leaders' Case in the latter part of 1923 and was released in June 1926 on giving an undertaking to work the Gurdwaras Act. Fie returned to Canada on 27th May 1928 via San Francisco where he discussed with the Ghadr Party a scheme for the purchase of arms for eventual use in India in an armed revolt. At a meeting in Victoria, B. C. on the 13th April 1929 in commemoration of the birthday of the Sikh community he exhorted everyone present to sacrifice everything for the emancipation of their country. After attending a farewell meeting at which he was presented with several purses and a sword, he left Victoria on June 11th, 1930, by s. s. "Pierce" and arrived at Calcutta by S.S. "Kutsang" on the 25th of July 1930. About the middle of 1931 he was reported to be still dangerous and to have thrown in his lot with the Kirti Kisan party. He was elected a member of the working committee of the Provincial Kirti Kisan party in July 1931. Has not to come to prominent notice since then.

Description : (in 1930): Wheat complexion; broad face; high bridged nose; big eyes; fairly long beard which is partly grey; height about 5-8!4"; stout build; age about 45/46 years; generally wears a black turban and Kirpan; knows Gurmukhi.