14 · FAMILY STORIES
Santokh Singh
Born 1923
Gharka
Son of Bhagat Singh
Profile
Santokh Singh was born in 1923 and came from Gharka. An agriculturist who could read and write, he took part in the Kissan morchas, or farmers’ campaigns, of 1938 and 1939. He spent nine months in Lahore Jail. 1
Sources & Notes
Sources and notes (1)
[1] Who’s Who Punjab Freedom Fighters, volume 2. The retained transcription gives both the birth year and the campaign years, which would place him in his mid-teens during the protests. These dates are preserved as attributed, not independently corroborated. The entry does not supply the dates of his imprisonment.