ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>DALJ&#298T SI&#7748GH (d. 1937)</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="DALJ*T,SIDGH"> <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">&#65279DALJ&#298T SI&#7748GH (d. 1937), one of the passengers on board the <i>S. S. Komagata Maru</i>, was born at the village of Kau&#7751&#299, now in Far&#299dko&#7789 district. He passed his matriculation examination and became assistant editor on the <i>Pañj&#257b&#299 Bhai&#7751</i>, a journal sponsored by Sikh Kany&#257 Mah&#257vidy&#257laya, F&#299rozpur, to promote the cause of women's education. At the age of 21, he left the Punjab to seek avenues for further education abroad. In Hong Kong, he met B&#257b&#257 Gurdit Si&#7749gh, then negotiating the chartering of the <i>S. S. Komagata Maru</i> to take Indians to Canada after the country had passed new and stricter immigration laws. Dalj&#299t Si&#7749gh became B&#257b&#257 Gurdit Si&#7749gh's secretary and made the voyage with him to Vancouver where he carried on an extensive correspondence with the immigration authorities bent on expelling the ship from the harbour. In the melee at Budge Budge, near Calcutta, where the <i>Komagata Maru</i> passengers were fired upon, B&#257b&#257 Gurdit Si&#7749gh and Dalj&#299t Si&#7749gh were among those who escaped unhurt. Dalj&#299t Si&#7749gh, avoiding arrest, went to Amritsar where he assumed the name of R&#257i Si&#7749gh. He came in contact with Master T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh and joined the staff of the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee. He was arrested in the Ak&#257l&#299 conspiracy case on the charge of having designs to establish Sikh <i>r&#257j</i> in the Punjab, and jailed for three years. He was released in September of 1926, along with Master T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, Gop&#257l Si&#7749gh Qaum&#299, Sohan Si&#7749gh Josh, and others. In the 1930's he served as manager of the Gurdw&#257r&#257 at Muktsar.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dalj&#299t Si&#7749gh, later R&#257i Si&#7749gh, died on 8 December 1937.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Josh, Sohan Singh, <i>Tragedy of Komagata Maru</i>. Delhi, 1975<BR> <li class="C1"> Johnston, Hugh, <i>The Voyage of the Komagata Maru</i>. Oxford (Delhi), 1979<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Sohan Si&#7749gh Josh<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>