KARMUWALA · PEOPLE & MEMORY
Family histories
Stories preserved through photographs, documents and memories. Begin with a family, explore its records, and follow the connections across generations.
Explore the family histories
These family histories follow people connected with Karmuwala and Gharka, including lives in Singapore and Shanghai. Photographs, family trees, personal memories and surviving documents help trace the connections between generations.
Start with Massa Singh Sandhu, Hardit Singh Sandhu, Ranga Singh, Rur Singh or Arjan Singh and family below. For a wider view of the community, explore the seventeen additional accounts in More family stories, covering migration, military service and the freedom movement.
Massa Singh Sandhu
A prison guard in wartime Singapore, a taxi owner and a watchman, remembered through family stories and his own voice.
Hardit Singh Sandhu
A Singapore-born financier and Sikh community leader whose public life stretched from wartime politics to the management of the gurdwaras.
Ranga Singh
Read the story and surviving sources for Ranga Singh, son of Pal Singh.
Rur Singh
Decades in Singapore, a great deal of land, and a nephew who became general secretary of the SGPC.
Arjan Singh and family
From Gharka to Shanghai: family memories, independence-movement records and a life of village service.
THE WIDER COLLECTION
More family stories
Seventeen family stories drawn from migration records, military service and accounts of the freedom movement.
Explore all seventeen stories →
Attar · Bahadur · Bhan · Chanchal · Chet · Dalip · Hazara · Jai · Jaswant · Kharak · Mangal · Prem · Rajind and Sundar · Santokh · Sundar · Sunder · Teja
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