ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>SEV&#256 SI&#7748GH KRIP&#256N BAH&#256DUR (1890-1961)</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="SEV,SIDGH,KRIPN,BAHDUR,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">&#65279SEV&#256 SI&#7748GH KRIP&#256N BAH&#256DUR (1890-1961), Ak&#257l&#299 activist and newspaper editor, was the son of Bh&#257&#299 Harn&#257m Si&#7749gh and M&#257&#299 Prem Kaur of Ba<u>kh</u>tga&#7771h, village l8 km northwest of Barn&#257l&#257 (30º-22'N, 75º-32'E), in Sa&#7749gr&#363r district of the Punjab. Born in 1890, he received lessons in Punjabi and in scripture-reading in the local <i>gurdw&#257r&#257</i>. He enlisted in the Indian army (Bengal Sappers and Miners) in 1908 and served in Mesopotamia (present Iraq) during World War I. Those days carrying a <i>krip&#257n</i> (sword) even as a religious symbol was not permitted under the Army Act, and the Sikhs were feeling deeply agitated. Sev&#257 Si&#7749gh, lately promoted <i>havild&#257r</i> (sergeant), at Roorkee in Uttar Pradesh in 1917 refused to take off his <i>krip&#257n</i>, religious obligation for him as a Sikh. He along with three others was dismissed from service. He joined in 1919 the Pañch <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 D&#299w&#257n, a Sikh reformist organization based at Bhasau&#7771, now in Sa&#7749gr&#363r district, which conferred on him the title "<i>Krip&#257n Bah&#257dur</i>" He continued to agitate for freedom for the Sikhs to wear <i>krip&#257n</i>, wrote three pamphlets, <i>Krip&#257n Virl&#257p, Krip&#257n Fary&#257d</i> and <i>Krip&#257n d&#257 Pi&#257r</i>, which were, however, confiscated by the government. In 1922 he broke away from the Bhasau&#7771 D&#299w&#257n and started publishing <i>Krip&#257n Bah&#257dur</i>, a Punjabi weekly from Amritsar. He was prosecuted in 1923 when he began serializing the lives of revolutionaries, Kart&#257r Si&#7749gh Sar&#257bh&#257 and R&#257sh Bih&#257r&#299 Bose, in his paper and was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, with a fine of Rs 200. In 1927, <i>Krip&#257n Bah&#257dur</i> was amalgamated with <i>Sa&#7749gat</i> edited by Sard&#363l Si&#7749gh Caveeshar, the new paper being known as <i>Krip&#257n Bah&#257dur te Sa&#7749gat</i>. In 1931, Sev&#257 Si&#7749gh was again jailed for two years for delivering a seditious speech at Muktsar, and his printing press was confiscated. In 1933, he started another paper, <i>Jagat Sudh&#257r</i> which failing to build up circulation had to be closed down. Sev&#257 Si&#7749gh retired to his village. He was elected <i>jathed&#257r</i> or leader of the Sa&#7749gr&#363r district Ak&#257l&#299 Jath&#257 in the early 1940's. It was through his initiative that a <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 high school was established at Ba<u>kh</u>tga&#7771h in 1946. During the year, he convened three Ak&#257l&#299 conferences to educate the people of the area regarding the party's reaction to the Cabinet Mission proposals for India's freedom. Sard&#257r Sev&#257 Si&#7749gh Krip&#257n Bah&#257dur died on 8 August 1961.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Sard&#257r Si&#7749gh Bh&#257&#7789&#299&#257<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>