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<p class="C1">&#65279ARJAN SI&#7748GH GA&#7770GAJJ (1905-1963), revolutionary and journalist, was born the son of Sundar Si&#7749gh R&#257mga&#7771h&#299&#257, an artisan of Tarn T&#257ran, in Amritsar district of the Punjab, in 1905. In 1919, when he was studying in class VI, young Arjan Si&#7749gh was expelled from school for refusing to salute the Union Jack, imperial standard of the British rulers. Undaunted, he plunged into the Ak&#257l&#299 agitation launched in 1920. He left home soon after and took up residence in the office of the Ga&#7771gajj (lit. thunderous) Ak&#257l&#299 D&#299w&#257n established by Jathed&#257r Tej&#257 Si&#7749gh Bhuchchar. This earned him the epithet "Ga&#7771gajj". Arjan Si&#7749gh was arrested in April 1922 on a charge of publicly reciting a seditious poem and sent to jail for six months - the youngest Ak&#257l&#299 prisoner. Again in 1923, after the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Ak&#257l&#299 Dal as well as the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee had been outlawed in the wake of the N&#257bh&#257 agitation, Arjan Si&#7749gh was taken into custody and awarded one-year imprisonment, but was not released until September 1926, when orders banning the Ak&#257l&#299 Dal were withdrawn. From the Ak&#257l&#299 Dal, he went across to Naujaw&#257n Bh&#257rat Sabh&#257, an organization of young socialist revolutionaries. He became a member of the editorial staff of the <i>Kirt&#299</i>, a professedly leftist magazine founded in February 1926 by Santokh Si&#7749gh, a <u>Gh</u>adr revolutionary. He was imprisoned for his anti-government writings in 1929 and, again, in 1930. Speech-making was banned for him in 1931, and in 1932 he was interned in the town of Tarn T&#257ran. After briefly serving as sub-editor of the <i>Babar Sher</i> and chief editor of the <i>Cartoon</i>, he joined the <i>Ak&#257l&#299</i> as a sub-editor in 1935. He suffered imprisonment for his political convictions even after Independence and worked on newspapers such as <i>Ja&#7749g-i-&#256z&#257d&#299</i> and <i>Naw&#257&#7749 Zam&#257n&#257</i>. His three published works, all in Punjabi, are <i>Do Pair Gha&#7789&#7789 Turn&#257, Shah&#299d de Bol</i> and <i>Mer&#257 &#256p&#7751a &#256p. </i></p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Arjan Si&#7749gh Ga&#7771gajj died on 10 March 1963.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Prat&#257p Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Gurdw&#257r&#257 Saudh&#257r arth&#257t Ak&#257l&#299 Lahir</i>. Amritsar, 1975<BR>
<li class="C1"> Josh, Sohan Si&#7749gh, <i>Ak&#257l&#299 Morchi&#257&#7749 da Itih&#257s</i>. Delhi, 1972<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Jagj&#299t Si&#7749gh Anand<br></p><BR>
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