ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>D&#298N&#256 N&#256TH PA&#7750&#7692IT (b. 1888)</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="D*N,NTH,PAF IT"> <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">&#65279D&#298N&#256 N&#256TH, PA&#7750&#7692IT (b. 1888), active supporter of and participant in the Sikh Gurdw&#257r&#257 reform movement 1920-25, was born in 1888, the son of Pa&#7751&#7693it B&#257l Krishan of Amritsar. In the wake of the agrarian protest in the Punjab in 1907, he joined the Indian National Congress. He was secretary of the Amritsar District Congress Committee when the Gurdw&#257r&#257 reform or Ak&#257l&#299 movement got under way with the establishment in November 1920 of a representative Sikh body, the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee. Pa&#7751&#7693it D&#299n&#257 N&#257th was in sympathy with the movement and joined the Ak&#257l&#299 agitation for the restoration of the keys of the <i>tosh&#257<u>kh</u>&#257n&#257</i> or treasury of the Darb&#257r S&#257hib, which had been taken away by the British Deputy Commissioner on 7 November 1921. He was arrested on 26 November 1921 along with a group of Sikh leaders at Ajn&#257l&#257, a sub-divisional town in Amritsar district, was charged with delivering seditious speeches in defiance of the ban on political meetings, and was sentenced to five months' rigorous imprisonment and a fine of 1, 000 rupees or six months' additional imprisonment in default thereof. Similar punishments were awarded to other arrested leaders. This, however, led to further intensification of the agitation, and the government was eventually forced to surrender the keys to the Ak&#257l&#299 leader, B&#257b&#257 Kha&#7771ak Si&#7749gh, on 17 January 1922. Of the 193 persons arrested, 150 were released but Pa&#7751&#7693it D&#299n&#257 N&#257th was one of those who were retained in custody. The Deputy Commissioner offered to set him free if he would put in an application in writing which he refused to do. Pa&#7751&#7693it D&#299n&#257 N&#257th was however released soon thereafter unconditionally along with other detainees.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Josh, Sohan Si&#7749gh, <i>Ak&#257l&#299 Morchi&#257&#7749 d&#257 Itih&#257s</i>. Delhi, 1972<BR> <li class="C1"> Prat&#257p Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Gurdw&#257r&#257 Sudh&#257r arth&#257t Ak&#257l&#299 Lahir</i>. Amritsar, 1975<BR> <li class="C1"> Teja Singh, <i>Gurdwara Reform Movement and the Sikh Awakening</i>. Jalandhar, 1922<BR> <li class="C1"> Mohinder Singh, <i>The Akali Movement</i>. Delhi, 1978<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Ajmer Si&#7749gh; Lohga&#7771h<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>