ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>JAVAND SI&#7748GH</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="JAVAND,SIDGH"> <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">&#65279JAVAND SI&#7748GH, one of the five Sikhs who administered <i>p&#257hul</i> or the vows of <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 to Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Duleep Si&#7749gh at Aden, belonged to the village of Bark&#299, in Lahore district. After serving for a while as a police constable, he had retired to his village to take to farming. When the news came that the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 had been detained at Aden and refused permission to come to India, Javand Si&#7749gh and &#7788h&#257kur Si&#7749gh of W&#257g&#257h proceeded to Aden to meet him. At Aden, Duleep Si&#7749gh decided formally to return to the faith of his forefathers and receive the rites of initiation. Javand Si&#7749gh was included among the five Sikhs chosen to conduct the ceremony.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Ganda Singh, ed., <i>History of the Freedom Movement in the Panjab (Maharaja Duleep Singh Correspondence) </i> . Patiala, 1972<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">K. S. Th&#257par<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>