Umrao Singh, alias U. S. Bains, alias Umar Din, son of Jowahir Singh, Jat, of Mahilpur, District Hoshiarpur. He was educated at the Khalsa High School, Mahilpur, and worked as a teacher in the Aiya School at Dasuya. He emigrated to America in 1907 where he was a very important leader of the Ghadr Party as early as 1910. He studied at Seattle and afterwards worked as a laborer at Vancouver. He was a member of the Shore Committee formed in connection with the "Komagata Mani". He frequently visited the boat house of Gurdit Singh (G-46) at Victoria where bombs were manufactured. His name occurred in the correspondence of Harnam Singh of village Sahri, district Hoshiarpur (the bomb-maker, hanged in the Burma Conspiracy Case). He is mentioned in Charan Das's (of village Pharwala, district Jullundur, - formerly a member of the Ghadr Party) statement as a weekly speaker at the Vancouver Gurdwara, against the British Government. Left Victoria for the U. S. A. shortly after the departure of the "Komagata Maru". He settled at Seattle and became a member of the Hindustan Association and was reported to have been studying electrical engineering. He was a bitter opponent of Ramchandra of Peshawar (a deceased leader of the Ghadr Party). He was sent by the Khalsa Diwan party to work in the Ghadr office when Jawala Singh (J-19) was the head of the party, but was turned out. At a meeting of the Ghadr Party held at Marysville on January 21st 1923, he made a speech urging everyone present to lend greater support to the party. In August 1924 he spoke in favor of the Babbar Akalis and condemned the British Government. He attended a meeting held at the Sikh Temple at Stockton on the 21st of October 1928 to welcome Gurmukh Singh (G-54) and Piara Singh (P-25), and made a long speech giving Piara Singh's history, which affected the audience considerably. He presided at a meeting of the newly formed California branch of the Indian National Congress held in Sacramento early in April 1930 at which a resolution was passed to send money to India and at which members were asked to purchase copies of Dr. Sunderland's book entitled "India in Bondage" for circulation to American friends. He is still in California but is looked upon with hostility by the Ghadr Party and is no longer a person of much importance.

Description : Dark complexion; age over 45 years; height 5'-3";thin build; clean shaven; no Kes.