ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>MATHR&#256 SI&#7748GH DOCTOR (1883-1917) </TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="MATHR,SIDGH,DOCTOR,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279MATHR&#256 SI&#7748GH, DOCTOR (1883-1917) , patriot and revolutionary, was born the son of Har&#299 Si&#7749gh, a Kohl&#299 Khatr&#299, and Bh&#257g Sudh&#299, at &#7693hu&#7693i&#257l in Pakistan. He attended the village primary school and passed his Matriculation examination from the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 High School at Chakv&#257l. In 1901, he joined a pharmaceutical firm at R&#257walpi&#7751&#7693&#299, Messrs Jagat Si&#7749gh and Brothers, and in 1906 shifted to Nowsher&#257 cantonment as a partner in another firm of chemists, H.D. &#7788h&#257kar D&#257s and Company. He married in 1908 and had a daughter, but both his wife and the little child died in 1913. Mathr&#257 Si&#7749gh decided to leave the country and seek his fortune in Canada. The newly adopted immigration regulations having become more stringent, he stopped at Shanghai where he set up temporarily a chemist's shop. Soon afterwards, he succeeded in entering California, but was deported as an illegal immigrant. Back in the Punjab, Mathr&#257 Si&#7749gh learnt about the <i>Komagata Maru</i> sailing from Hong Kong with Indian immigrants direct to Canada, thus fulfilling the legal requirement for entry into that country. He left home again, but failed to catch up with the departing vessel. He now settled down in medical practice in Hong Kong. Reports of the treatment meted out to passengers of the <i>Komagata Maru</i> at Vancouver made Mathr&#257 Si&#7749gh a rebel and he established contact with the leaders of <u>Gh</u>adar movement in the United States. He helped in distributing copies of the <u>Gh</u>adar and started working on the Indian soldiers in Hong Kong. After the outbreak of World War I in July 1914, Mathr&#257 Si&#7749gh, following the party directive, came back to the Punjab where he was made a member of the central committee and was entrusted with the task of manufacturing bombs. Doctor Mathr&#257 Si&#7749gh and Harn&#257m Si&#7749gh of Kah&#363&#7789&#257, who had been deputed to incite the soldiers and tribesmen in the North-West Frontier Province to rebellion, escaped to Afghanistan, where they were interned. They were soon released on the intervention of Maulaw&#299 Barkat Ullah, another Indian revolutionary who as prime minister in the Indian government-in-exile had some influence with Am&#299r Hab&#299bullah, the ruler of Afghanistan.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mathr&#257 Si&#7749gh was appointed a minister plenipotentiary and Harn&#257m Si&#7749gh a secretary in the government-in-exile set up by Indian revolutionaries under R&#257j&#257 Mahendra Prat&#257p. In his capacity as a minister plenipotentiary, Mathr&#257 Si&#7749gh made secret trips to Iran, Russia and Germany. On his way back from Russia from one such visit, he was arrested at Tashkent on 2 November 1916, and brought to India via Iran. He was tried in the third supplementary Lahore conspiracy case and sentenced to death. He was hanged secretly on 27 March 1917. Even his dead body was not handed over to his family, and the cremation was performed within the premises of the Lahore Central Jail.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Sainsr&#257, Gurcharan Si&#7749gh, <i><u>Gh</u>adar P&#257r&#7789&#299 d&#257 Itih&#257s</i>. Jalandhar, 1961<BR> <li class="C1"> Jagj&#299t Si&#7749gh, <i><u>Gh</u>adar P&#257r&#7789&#299 Lahir</i>. Delhi, 1979<BR> <li class="C1"> Gurdit Singh, <i>The Voyage of the Komagata Maru</i>. Calcutta, n.d.<BR> <li class="C1"> Isemonger, F.C. and J. Slattery. <i>An Account of the Ghadar Conspiracy</i>. n.d.<BR> <li class="C1"> Mohan, Kamlesh, <i>Militant Nationalism in the Punjab 1919-1935</i>. Delhi, 1985<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Gurmukh Si&#7749gh Mus&#257fir<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>