[1][2] Her paternal grandmother, Phularjee, was a Brahmin originally from Bengal and the daughter of a Hindu priest and widow of a wealthy landowner.
[3] Her father, Sital Persaud, who immigrated along with his mother, was a community leader and organizer and was a role model to her as she grew up.
[1] They married on February 23, 1910, in Paramaribo in both a civil, Christian, and Hindu ceremony, and subsequently moved to British Guiana.
[1] Singh was also involved in the Commonwealth Heart and Chest Association, the Girl Guides, the Red Cross, the St. John's Ambulance Brigade, the Tuberculosis Society, the Women's League of Social Services (of which she was a founding member), and the YWCA.
She was appointed by the government to be a board member of the Poor Law Commission, where she helped process applications and run interviews for welfare recipients.