Rajwinder Singh Rahi

Rajwinder Singh Rahi is a Punjabi writer and researcher on the Ghadar movement. Sikh Siyasat News, in a review by Jaspal Singh Sidhu of Bhai Ajmer Singh's book Ghadari Babe Kaun San? (14 October 2013), says that a critical article by Sewak Singh, a Punjabi University research scholar, in the weekly Sikh Shahaadat questioned the accepted account of the Ghadar Party. Its reception led Sikh intellectuals to ask why Sikhs formed most of the party's membership. These questions, the review says, prompted Rahi to take up a serious study of the movement.

The review says he researched old records and documents and produced three books on the subject: Ghadar Lehar Di Asli Gatha ("Real Story Behind the Ghadar Movement"), parts one and two, and Meri Ram Kahani, the autobiography of Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna, founder president of the Hind Association of the Pacific Coast, later known as the Hindustan Ghadar Party. It adds that Bhai Ajmer Singh guided Rahi and collaborated actively in his research, and later published his own book on the Ghadar Party.

Key moments

• 14 October 2013: Sikh Siyasat News credits him with three books on the Ghadar movement and says Ajmer Singh guided and collaborated in his research.
• 20 June 2015: attends the release of Ajmer Singh's Ideological Encirclement of the Sikhs after the Massacre of 1984 at Teacher's Home, Bathinda. The Tribune names him with Jaspal Singh Sidhu and Parmjeet Singh Gazi (printed Paramjeet Singh Gaji in the Tribune) among the writers present.

Known for: Reviving old documents of the Ghadar movement, above all Bhakna's autobiography, and for the research that, the review says, he and Ajmer Singh worked on together.