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<p class="C1">&#65279GURMUKH SI&#7748GH, SANT (1896-1984), Sikh saint and preacher, was born on 6 January 1896 in a land-owning family of tailors in the village of Dalelsi&#7749ghv&#257l&#257, now in Ba&#7789hi&#7751&#7693&#257 district of the Punjab. His father's name was K&#257l&#363. His own name, B&#257b&#363, was changed to Gurmukh Si&#7749gh when he converted a Sikh and received the rites of initiation at the hands of Sant Atar Si&#7749gh of Mast&#363&#257&#7751&#257 in 1913. In 1914 he enlisted in the army where, because of his knowledge of Sikh scripture and tenet, he was entrusted with the duties of a regimental <i>granth&#299</i> or priest. He had himself released in 1919 from the army to make preaching his vocation. He took part in the Shah&#299d&#299 Sam&#257gam of 1921 to honour the memory of Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib martyrs which launched him into Ak&#257l&#299 agitation for the reformation of Sikh shrines. He preached the reformed creed of the Si&#7749gh Sabh&#257 and the Ak&#257l&#299 movement and was listened to with eagerness at <i>d&#299v&#257ns</i>, especially in the countryside. For a speech he delivered at M&#257ns&#257 Ma&#7751&#7693&#299, in the then Princely state of Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257, he was arrested and spent an year and a half in jail. In 1935-36, he entered &#7692er&#257 B&#257b&#257 Jass&#257 Si&#7749gh at Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257, then the seat of Sant Nand Si&#7749gh. The &#7692er&#257 remained Gurmukh Si&#7749gh's headquarters for the next half-century. His sanctity and rustic humour and eloquence shed their influence on audiences in far-flung places, and he was constantly in demand at Sikh <i>d&#299v&#257ns</i> in India and abroad. In 1913, he was nominated a member of the Si&#7749gh Sabh&#257 Centenary Committee. For his lifelong devotion to spreading the message of the Gur&#363s, he was honoured at a special ceremony at the Ak&#257l Ta<u>kh</u>t at Amritsar on 16 September 1975. Sant Gurmukh Si&#7749gh was on one of his tours abroad when he suddenly died in New York on 19 June 1984.</p>
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