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<p class="C1">&#65279NIDH&#256N SI&#7748GH, SANT (1882-1947), holy man popularly known as Haz&#363r S&#257hibv&#257le, was born the son of Bh&#257&#299 Uttam Si&#7749gh of the village of Ni&#7693&#257lo&#7749 in Hoshi&#257rpur district of the Punjab. He received religious instruction at the hands of Sant D&#299v&#257n Si&#7749gh, popular in the area for his Holiness. He left his home at the age of 20 and enlisted in the 5th Probyn's Horse, a cavalry regiment of the Indian army, at Jh&#257&#7749s&#299. But he resigned within a year and set out on pilgrimage to Ta<u>kh</u>t Sachkha&#7751&#7693 Sr&#299 Haz&#363r S&#257hib, N&#257nde&#7693, where he took up his permanent abode and found his calling in work in Gur&#363 k&#257 La&#7749gar. He began by fetching water from the <i>b&#257o&#299</i>, storing it in large earthen pitchers and serving it to visiting pilgrims. He eventually raised a <i>gurdw&#257r&#257</i> to serve <i>La&#7749gar</i> or meals to the pilgrims on which account the complex came to be known as Gurdw&#257r&#257 La&#7749gar S&#257hib. To collect funds for the La&#7749gar, he went out on preaching tours, army units being his special constituency. As his popularity and his resources grew, Sant Nidh&#257n Si&#7749gh took up construction of other <i>gurdw&#257r&#257s</i>. The best known among them is the one at Manm&#257&#7693 where pilgrims from the north have usually to wait for long hours for changing trains to N&#257nde&#7693. It is known as Gurdw&#257r&#257 Guptsar. Three of the other Gurdw&#257r&#257s built at his instance are Gurdw&#257r&#257 N&#257nakpur&#299 and Gurdw&#257r&#257 Ratanga&#7771h, near N&#257nde&#7693, and Gurdw&#257r&#257 S&#257hib at Bh&#363s&#257val. At his initiative were raised Gurdw&#257r&#257 Tatt <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 at Kar&#257ch&#299 and Gurdw&#257r&#257 S&#257hib at Kah&#363&#7789&#257, both now outside of India.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	Sant Nidh&#257n Si&#7749gh died at N&#257nde&#7693 on 4 August 1947.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Patwant Singh, <i>Gurdw&#257r&#257s in India and Around the World</i>. Delhi, 1992<BR>
<li class="C1"> Sahi, Joginder Singh, <i>Sikh Shrines in India and Abroad</i>. Faridabad, 1978<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Nirvair Si&#7749gh Arsh&#299<br></p><BR>
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