Balkarran Singh

Born in Guyana.

3rd Child of Beharry Singh.

Returned to India to visit family with his father at a young age.

Lived in Station Street Kitty closer to Vissengent Road.

Married Sumintra and had a son Harry Charran Singh.

Sumintra was killed during the Lenora sugar estate strike..shot by the British Troops .

After 7 years remarry to Ethwaria (Mamwah) from Dehoop Mahaica....their son was Hame Karran Singh

Lived at 15 Owen Street Kitty Georgetown.

Balkarran was very versed in Hindi,Sanskrit and the Ramayan.

Co-founder of the Tribanie Ramayan Goal. in Kitty.Georgetown.

Includes Chowtal singing.

Assisted in the community,Mandir and close with Priest and community Leaders.

Kept his family at heart,very close to all of his sisters,his sons , grand childrens and his family.

Balkarran lived a full life and died at 17 Owen Street Kitty

Didi was an adopted sister..lived in D’Andrade Street Kitty..she raised her grandson Jerry Wong..Famous Tennis Player & sportsman.

1st Wife Sumintra:

Long before March 6, 1964, a young East Indian woman named Sumintra, a weeder, and two other workers at the Leonora sugar estate were shot dead by colonial police, after a “disturbance in February 1939. Nothing was even written about these people, except a mention of their names in the paper the following morning. From the newspaper article, it is obvious that the situation was very debilitating for the sugar authorities. For the sugar workers, it was very significant. It would lead to the new union, the Man Power Citizens Association (MPCA) being recognized by the colonial government as the first representative of the sugar workers.

http://www.guyanaundersiege.com/East%20Indian%20culture/Indian%20wo...

Sumintra was a Rajput warrior woman who was also a weeder at Plantation Leonora, West Coast Demerara. She led her comrades in the 1939 Leonora Uprising. Sumintra was shot and killed by the police under Superintendent Weber. These militant women fought for social justice long before the PPP and GAWU came into prominence in the struggle for freedom and social justice for sugar workers.

http://www.guyanaundersiege.com/leaders/rai/balramsinghrai.htm