ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>GHULL&#256 SI&#7748GH BH&#256&#298 (d. 1924)</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="GHULL,SIDGH,BH*"> <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">&#65279GHULL&#256 SI&#7748GH, BH&#256&#298 (d. 1924), one of the martyrs of Jaito, was born around 1896, the son of Bh&#257&#299 Narai&#7751 Si&#7749gh and M&#257&#299 Kishan Kaur, a Ja&#7789&#7789 Sikh couple of the village of Bhal&#363r, near B&#257gh&#257 Pur&#257&#7751&#257, in present-day Far&#299dko&#7789 district of the Punjab. Tall and heavily built, Ghull&#257 Si&#7749gh helped his father and two elder brothers at tilling the family acre. He had received no formal education and was not yet married when the Ak&#257l&#299 agitation at Jaito protesting the forced abdication of the Sikh ruler of N&#257bh&#257 was gathering momentum. Ghull&#257 Si&#7749gh received the vows of the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 at the hands of Sant Sundar Si&#7749gh Bhi&#7751&#7693r&#257&#7749v&#257le and became an Ak&#257l&#299 activist. On 20 February 1924, he went to watch the first of the columns of Sikh volunteers vowed to martyrdom (<i>Shah&#299d&#299 Jath&#257</i>), camping at the village of Barg&#257&#7771&#299, and accompanied it on its march to Jaito the following morning. Machine-gun fire from an armed contingent of the N&#257bh&#257 state force, then under a British administrator, opened on the Ak&#257l&#299 volunteers near Gurdw&#257r&#257 &#7788ibb&#299 S&#257hib. Bh&#257&#299 Ghull&#257 Si&#7749gh received a bullet shot in the head and fell down dead on the spot. His dead body was taken away by the state police and cremated along with other Jaito martyrs, around 21 in number.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol 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> </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>