ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>JASWANT SI&#7748GH (1896-1964)</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="JASWANT,SIDGH,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">&#65279JASWANT SI&#7748GH (1896-1964), the youngest of the trinity of Jhab&#257l brothers who were all active in the Gurdw&#257r&#257 Reform movement, was born on 17 June 1896 at the village of Jhab&#257l, in Amritsar district of the Punjab. After matriculating from <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 High School, Lahore, in 1916, Jaswant Si&#7749gh joined <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 College, Amritsar, but had to discontinue his studies owing to his father's death in 1918. Like his elder brothers, Amar Si&#7749gh and Sarmukh Si&#7749gh Jaswant Si&#7749gh began to devote his time to religious and social work while still very young. At the age of 23, he was elected president of the village Sr&#299 Gur&#363 Si&#7749gh Sabh&#257. Side by side with his brothers, he participated in the agitations for securing the resignation of the manager of Sr&#299 Darb&#257r S&#257hib, Amritsar, appointed by the British, for rebuilding the Gurdw&#257r&#257 Rik&#257bgañj wall and for the reformation of Gurdw&#257r&#257 B&#257be d&#299 Ber at Si&#257lko&#7789 in October 1920.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1920, he was elected joint secretary of the newly established district branch of the Sikh League. He was nominated a member of the first Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee in 1920, and he headed the first Local Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee formed for the management of the Darb&#257r S&#257hib at Amritsar after the control of the Sikh shrines had passed into the hands of the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Committee. He was also a member of the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee. In Ak&#257l&#299 and Congress movements, he courted arrest several times. On 11 May 1921, he was jailed for six weeks for a public speech he delivered at Tarn T&#257ran following the Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib tragedy.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On 26 November 1921, he was arrested for convening a <i>d&#299v&#257n</i> at Ajn&#257l&#257 in support of the <i>morch&#257</i> for re-claiming from the British keys of the Golden Temple treasury. He was arrested again in February 1922, for an alleged seditious speech he had delivered, and sentenced to jail. He was sent to the &#7692er&#257 <u>Gh</u>&#257z&#299 <u>Kh</u>&#257n Jail, where he was asked to remove his black turban. He protested against this for which reason his sentence was enhanced by nine months. He was set free in February 1925. On 4 November 1925, he was elected general secretary of the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee. In the elections of 1926, he was elected a member of the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee and president of the Local Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee, Sr&#299 Darb&#257r S&#257hib, Amritsar. He became president of the Darb&#257r S&#257hib Committee in the elections of 1933 as well, but he broke away from the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Ak&#257l&#299 Dal and joined hands with its rival, Central Ak&#257l&#299 Dal. Gradually, he receded from the political scene and died in obscurity on 14 July 1964 at Cha&#7751&#7693&#299ga&#7771h.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Ashok, Shamsher Si&#7749gh, <i>Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Prabandhak Kame&#7789&#299 d&#257 Pañj&#257h S&#257l&#257 Itih&#257s</i>. Amritsar, 1982<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"> Pi&#257r Si&#7749gh, <i>Tej&#257 Si&#7749gh Samundr&#299</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">Jagj&#299t Si&#7749gh <br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>