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<p class="C1">&#65279NAND SI&#7748GH (1895-1926), a Babar revolutionary, was born in 1895 at the village of Ghu&#7771i&#257l, in Jalandhar district. He lost his father, Ga&#7749g&#257 Si&#7749gh, in his early childhood and was brought up by an elder brother. He was married at the age of fifteen and worked as a carpenter in his own village until he left for Basr&#257, in Iraq, in search of a better living. While he was in Basr&#257, he was deeply moved by events in the Punjab such as the Jalli&#257&#7749v&#257l&#257 B&#257<u>gh</u> tragedy and the Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib massacre. Resolved to dedicate himself to the cause of Gurdw&#257r&#257 reform, he returned to India and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for participating in Gur&#363 k&#257 B&#257<u>gh</u> agitation. The atrocity perpetrated on peaceful Ak&#257l&#299 volunteers had embittered his heart and he decided to renounce non-violence in favour of violence. He joined the radical Babar Ak&#257l&#299 Jath&#257 and encompassed the murder, on 17 April 1923, of S&#363bad&#257r Gend&#257 Si&#7749gh of his own village. The S&#363bad&#257r had incurred the displeasure of the B&#257b&#257r Ak&#257l&#299s by acting as an informer against the group and against the Ak&#257l&#299s of the area. Nand Si&#7749gh was arrested five days after the murder. He was awarded death sentence and was hanged, with Kishan Si&#7749gh Ga&#7771gajj, leader of the Babar Ak&#257l&#299 movement, on 27 February 1926.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Ghosh, Kali Charan,. <i>The Roll of Honour : Anecdotes of Indian Martyrs</i>. Calcutta, 1965<BR>
<li class="C1"> Makhs&#363spur&#299, Sundar Si&#7749gh, <i>Babar Ak&#257l&#299 Lahir</i>. Amritsar, 1970<BR>
<li class="C1"><i>Ch&#257nd</i> (Ph&#257&#7749s&#299 A&#7749k). November 1928<BR>
<li class="C1"> Nijjar, B.S., <i>History of the Babar Akalis</i>. Jalandhar, 1987<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Kamlesh Mohan<br></p><BR>
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