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Primary revolution

Baba Santa Singh

Babbar Akali Movement

Named as treasurer in a government summary, and one of six men hanged in Lahore in February 1926.

Life
?–1926
Place
Lahore, Punjab, India
Years
1921–1926
Map
31.558, 74.31

Biography

Baba Santa Singh appears in accounts of early Babbar Akali meetings. A government summary names him treasurer of the working committee. He was one of six men executed at Lahore in February 1926 after the conspiracy proceedings. His home village is not fixed in the supplied file. The pin is Lahore, the execution place, not a birthplace.

Revolution

Theme. Working committee · Executed 1926

Key figures. Kishan Singh Gargajj

Outcome. Hanged at Lahore in February 1926.

Casualties. One of the six executions that closed the legal case.

Influence. A working-committee name in the government summary of the jatha.