ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HAZ&#256R&#256 SI&#7748GH GI&#256N&#298 (1828-1908)</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="HAZR,SIDGH,GIN*,Person,Person"> <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">&#65279HAZ&#256R&#256 SI&#7748GH, GI&#256N&#298 (1828-1908), scholar and educator, was born in Amritsar in 1828. He also used to inscribe his name as Bh&#257&#299 Haz&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh Gi&#257n&#299 as well as Haz&#363r Har&#299. His father, Bh&#257&#299 S&#257va&#7751 Si&#7749gh, was employed in the Golden Temple as a store keeper. The family had migrated from Ha&#7771app&#257, now in Pakistan, to settle in Amritsar. Early in his career, Haz&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh was apprenticed to Sant Chand&#257 Si&#7749gh famous in his day in classical Sikh learning. Besides the Sikh texts, he studied Persian and Sanskrit and acquired facility in both. He had strong literary inclinations nurtured by his association with the education department set up by the British after the occupation of the Punjab in 1849 and by the Si&#7749gh Sabh&#257 renaissance which provided new creative incentives. He was an active member of the Amritsar Si&#7749gh Sabh&#257 and acted for a while as one of its secretaries. In the education department, Haz&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh worked as an inspector for vernacular schools. He prepared textbooks in Punjabi such as <i>Bh&#363gol Mañjar&#299, Bh&#363gol Darpa&#7751, Pr&#299tam Ga&#7751it, Hind d&#257 Sugam Itih&#257s, Itih&#257s Prashnotr&#299, Gurmukh&#299 Park&#257sh</i> and <i>Dulhan Patrik&#257</i>. He rendered Shai<u>kh</u> S&#257'ad&#299's Persian classics, <i>Gulist&#257&#7749</i> and <i>Bost&#257&#7749</i> into Braj verse and adapted Naz&#299r Ahmad's famous Urdu novel <i>Mir&#257t ul-Ar&#363s</i> into Punjabi which was published under the title of <i>Dulhan Darpa&#7751</i>. In Punjabi, he wrote <i>S&#363raj Prak&#257sh Chavarnik&#257</i>, which is an abridged version of <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>, and the biographies of Gur&#363 Har R&#257i and Gur&#363 Har Krishan. His more enduring works were <i>Gur&#363 Granth Kosh</i>, a dictionary of the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib initiated by him but which received its current form from his daughter's son, Bh&#257&#299 V&#299r Si&#7749gh, celebrated Sikh savant and poet, and <i>V&#257r&#257&#7749 Bh&#257&#299 Gurd&#257s</i> (4 vols) which is a commentary on the <i>v&#257rs</i> of Bh&#257&#299 Gurd&#257s.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gi&#257n&#299 Haz&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh died on 27 September 1908 at the ripe age of eighty.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Balb&#299r Si&#7749gh, <i>Sr&#299 Charan Hari Visth&#257r</i>. Dehra Dun, 1945<BR> <li class="C1"> Harbans Si&#7749gh, ed., <i>Bh&#257&#299 V&#299r Si&#7749gh Abhinandan Granth</i>. Delhi, 1954<BR> <li class="C1"> Vir Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, <i>V&#257r&#257&#7749 Bh&#257&#299 Gurd&#257s</i>. Amritsar, 1962<BR> <li class="C1"> Harbans Singh, <i>Bh&#257&#299 Vir Singh</i>. Delhi, 1972<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Harn&#257m Si&#7749gh <br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>