ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>KARAM SI&#7748GH BH&#256&#298 (1891-1921)</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="KARAM,SIDGH,BH*,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">&#65279KARAM SI&#7748GH, BH&#256&#298 (1891-1921), one of the Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib martyrs, was born on 5 Ass&#363 1948 Bk/19 September 1891, the son of Bh&#257&#299 H&#257kam Si&#7749gh and M&#257&#299 Kisso of Lahuke village in Amritsar district. The family had migrated to the Lower Chen&#257b Canal Colony and settled in Chakk 75 Lahuke in 1895. Karam Si&#7749gh learnt to read Gurmukh&#299 in the village <i>gurdw&#257r&#257</i>. He took the <i>p&#257hul</i> of the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 at the age of 15 and engaged himself in agriculture. In 1913 he enlisted in the 47th Sikh Battalion. After some time his elder brother S&#257dh&#363 Si&#7749gh died, and as he came on leave to attend the obsequies, he, under pressure from his family and other relatives, married his brother's widow, B&#299b&#299 Harn&#257m Kaur, by the custom of <i>ch&#257dar and&#257z&#299</i> i.e, by tying the conjugal knot. In 1915 he resigned from the army and returned to his village. As the Gurdw&#257r&#257 Reform movement got under way, he registered his name as a volunteer with the <i>jath&#257</i> of Bh&#257&#299 Lachhma&#7751 Si&#7749gh. And when the final call came on 19 February 1921, he along with some others from his village marched to Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib, and fell a martyr outside the walled compound of Gurdw&#257r&#257 Janam Asth&#257n, the following morning.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bh&#257&#299 Karam Si&#7749gh was survived by his mother, wife and four minor children. The Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee settled upon the family a pension of Rs 240 per annum and discharged the small debt it had incurred.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>See</i> NANK&#256&#7750&#256 S&#256HIB MASSACRE</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Shamsher, Gurba<u>kh</u>sh Si&#7749gh, <i>Shah&#299d&#299 J&#299van</i>. Nankana Sahib, 1938<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Gurcharan Si&#7749gh Gi&#257n&#299<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>