ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>BEL&#256 SI&#7748GH BH&#256&#298 (1865-1921)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="BEL,SIDGH,BH*,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279BEL&#256 SI&#7748GH, BH&#256&#298 (1865-1921), son of Bh&#257&#299 Mayy&#257 and M&#257&#299 R&#257j&#299, a Sai&#7751&#299 Sikh couple, was born at Kart&#257rpur in Jalandhar district. The family originally belonged to Far&#299dko&#7789 state, from where Bel&#257 Si&#7749gh's grandfather, Bh&#257&#299 Sobh&#257, had migrated to Kart&#257rpur where he served in Gur&#363 k&#257 La&#7749gar run by local <i>mahants</i>, who in recognition of his services had allotted some agricultural land to him. Bel&#257 Si&#7749gh was the first in the family to receive the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257-<i>p&#257hul</i>. He engaged himself in agriculture but also continued to serve in Gur&#363 k&#257 La&#7749gar. For some reason the <i>mahants</i>, towards the end of the century, resumed the land granted to the family. Bel&#257 Si&#7749gh with his wife and two sons migrated to Chakk No. 10 Thoth&#299&#257&#7749 in the newly developed irrigation district of Shei<u>kh</u>&#363pur&#257 in western Punjab where he earned his living by ploughing land taken on annual rent basis. At the outset of the Gurdw&#257r&#257 reform movement, Bel&#257 Si&#7749gh with some other Sikhs of Thoth&#299&#257&#7749 joined the <i>jath&#257</i> of Bh&#257&#299 Lachma&#7751 Si&#7749gh Dh&#257rov&#257l&#299 which was massacred on 20 February 1921 at Gurdw&#257r&#257 Janam Asth&#257n Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>See</i> NANK&#256N&#256 S&#256HIB MASSACRE</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Shamsher, Gurba<u>kh</u>sh Si&#7749gh, <i>Shah&#299d&#299 J&#299van</i>. Nankana S&#257hib, 1938<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Gurcharan Si&#7749gh Gi&#257n&#299<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>