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Rakha Singh Grewal

Village: Baddowal

City: Ludhiana

Rakha Singh, Grewal, son of Chanda Singh, Village Baddowal, P. S. Sadr, District Ludhiana. He went to Manila in August 1910 along with Rattan Singh, son of Anup Singh of Baddowal, Ludhiana, and thence proceeded to the United States of America in December 1911, and worked as a laborer in California and Oregon. In 1916 he was at Astoria where, according to Rattan Singh, he used to read the Ghadr newspapers and collect subscriptions for the Ghadr fund. He became naturalized as an American citizen and as such paid a visit, lasting about a year, to India at the end of 1922. His U. S. citizenship was afterwards revoked and an appeal made by him in 1930 to be reinstated into American citizenship failed. About 1928 he took to lecturing the Yogi philosophy and called himself "Yogi Gherwal of India". He does not appear to have ever been very closely associated with the Ghadr Party, though from an uncorroborated source information was received in December 1931 that he was taking a keen interest in the Ghadr Party and was shortly expected to come to India with a lot ofmoney for the Kirti Party in India. He is still (November 1933) in America and is the editor of a periodical, entitled "India's Message" and published in Santa Barbara, Southern California, United States of America, in which he intersperses his Yoga thesis with some mild practical propaganda.