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<p class="C1">&#65279HAR&#298 SI&#7748GH KAH&#256RPUR&#298, SANT (1888-1973), Sikh saint and preacher, was born in 1888 in a Lidda&#7771 Ja&#7789&#7789 family of the village of Ji&#257&#7751, in Hoshi&#257rpur district of the Punjab. He was the youngest of the three sons of Avt&#257r Si&#7749gh and Atar Kaur. He received instruction in religious texts from Sant Dal&#299p Si&#7749gh of &#7692omel&#299. He grew up to be a youth of a strong, athletic build and enlisted in the 25th Punjab Battalion as a sepoy in 1904, serving in the North-West Frontier Province.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	Under the influence of Sant Harn&#257m Si&#7749gh who also belonged to the village of Ji&#257&#7751 and who was also then serving in the army, his native religious inclination asserted itself and he became more and more preoccupied with <i>gurb&#257&#7751&#299</i> and meditation. He resigned from the army on 31 March 1909, and for the next four years served in Gur&#363 k&#257 La&#7749gar at the <i>&#7693er&#257</i> or monastery of the much revered saint, Sant Karam Si&#7749gh of Hot&#299 Mard&#257n. He returned to the Punjab in 1913 and established, on the bank of a <i>cho</i> or seasonal rivulet, near Kah&#257rpur village in Hoshi&#257rpur district, his own <i>&#7693er&#257</i>, where he preached and ran a Gur&#363 k&#257 La&#7749gar or community kitchen. Sant Har&#299 Si&#7749gh Kah&#257rpur&#299, as he came to be known, gave himself to preaching the Sikh faith as well as to the spreading of modern education among the rural masses. He had <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 schools established at Kukk&#257&#7771 B&#257&#7771&#299&#257&#7749, Ji&#257&#7751, Nasr&#257l&#257 and M&#257halpur. The last-named has since developed into a flourishing degree college. Sant Har&#299 Si&#7749gh Kah&#257rpur&#299 is also remembered for supervising, during 1936-44, the reconstruction of Ta<u>kh</u>t Sr&#299 Kesga&#7771h S&#257hib at Anandpur, where he also renovated Gurdw&#257r&#257 Mañj&#299 S&#257hib and Gur&#363 k&#257 T&#257l&#257b. He also constructed <i>dharams&#257l&#257s</i> at Ji&#257&#7751 and B&#257&#7771&#299&#257&#7749.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sant Har&#299 Si&#7749gh Kah&#257rpur&#299 died on 18 November 1973.</p>
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