Shingara SINGH - a tall Jat Sikh; says he is almost 100, or on reflection 96 [[tho cd be ten years younger]]; still six feet tall, stout, with a fine staff; bushy bearded; dishevelled orange rural turban; family house is in Sultanwind, a village on the outskirts of Amritsar; found him a couple of miles away, by a wheat field he owns near the village of Rampura, sitting on a charpoi overssing three labourers working to make a new fitting for a tube well. Says he was at Jallianwala bagh and helped take out the bodies; later he was jailed for nine years for murdering a Muslim; later still, during partition, says he and colleagues killed lost of Amritsar Muslims in retaliation for attacks on the other side, and he was again put in Lahore jail but got out on the 15th August aftr about two weeks. His father had deserted from the army to join the freedom fighters (and while in jail had killed two Pathan ? jailers who sodomised prisoners) - and so Shingara regards himself as of a freedom-fighter's family. Had kept the best of the swords he'd used during partition days, but that was takne by the police during a raid. Five of his family have died because there were militants (at least one being killed by other militants). Jokes that he's only been to Lahore in shackles. Has two sons, four daughters and at least 20 grandchildren. Says at partition, has three daus and two sons. In 1919, was already engaged to be married. The land the family owns on the outskirts of Amritsar s extremely valuable, but they live modestly in typical Jat style. Shingara is loud, larger than life, still with a firm handshake and a booming voice. A local sarpanch, present during the interview, says: among thosw who witnessed the event of 47, the anger is the same, but those who haven't are non-committal. Interviewed in th fields, not more than a quaretr of a mile from the New GT Road, on 19 March 1997 IN PUNJABI - with Asit Jolly providing first person translation (most of my questions useable) 380 - gives name and says is a year and a half short of 100 385 > 19 years and 9 days old on day of J Bagh [in 1919] 390 > 'I went and cleared out the bodes from J B, J went from