ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>S&#256DH&#362 SI&#7748GH BHAUR&#256,JATHED&#256R (1905-1984)</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="SDHj,SIDGH,BHAUR,JATHEDR,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">&#65279S&#256DH&#362 SI&#7748GH BHAUR&#256,JATHED&#256R (1905-1984), Sikh missionary who rose to be the Jathed&#257r or high priest of Sr&#299 Ak&#257l Ta<u>kh</u>t, Amritsar, was born the son of Bh&#257&#299 Ra&#7751 Si&#7749gh and M&#257&#299 &#256tam Kaur, on 6 June 1905 at Chakk No. 7, a village in Lyallpur district (now in Pakistan). After matriculating from <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 High School, Lyallpur (where Master T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, later a leading figure in Sikh politics, was the headmaster), he joined police service and served at Quetta from 1923 to 1925 before resigning to take part in the Ak&#257l&#299 agitation for Gurdw&#257r&#257 reform. From 1926 to 1928, he studied at the Shah&#299d Sikh Missionary College, Amritsar, to train as a missionary. From 1928 to 1964, he headed the Sikh preaching centres at Al&#299ga&#7771h and H&#257pu&#7771, in Uttar Pradesh, where he is said to have initiated nearly half a million persons according to Sikh rites, among them mostly Va&#7751j&#257r&#257 Sikhs of Uttar Pradesh and R&#257jasthan. He was a member of the executive committee of the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Ak&#257l&#299 Dal from 1955 to 1960 and took part in several of the political agitations launched by the party. He was Jathed&#257r of Ta<u>kh</u>t Sr&#299 Kesga&#7771h, Anandpur S&#257hib, from 1961 to 1964. In 1964, he was elevated to the position of Jathed&#257r of Sr&#299 Ak&#257l Ta<u>kh</u>t, the highest seat of religious authority and legislation for the Sikhs. He attracted wide public notice when, on 10 June 1978, he issued a <i>hukamn&#257m&#257</i> or edict calling upon all Sikhs to boycott socially the neo-Nira&#7749k&#257r&#299 sect. In 1980, Jathed&#257r S&#257dh&#363 Si&#7749gh Bhaur&#257, in an effort to avert a vertical split in the Ak&#257l&#299 Dal, formed a 7-member committee of senior party leaders to function as collegiate executive, but soon after himself resigned on health grounds and retired to live with his sons in Jalandhar where he died on 7 March 1984.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Dilgeer, Harjinder Singh, <i>The Ak&#257l Takhat</i>. Jalandhar, 1980<BR> <li class="C1"> Sukhdi&#257l Si&#7749gh, <i>Ak&#257l Ta<u>kh</u>t S&#257hib</i>. Patiala, 1984<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Sarmukh Si&#7749gh Amole<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>