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<p class="C1">&#65279SR&#298 GUR&#362 UPK&#256R PRACH&#256RN&#298 SABH&#256 i.e. an association for the propagation of the Gur&#363's deeds of compassion and charity was formed by a group of Sikh youth at Amritsar during the opening years of the twentieth century, with Bh&#257&#299 (also known as Pa&#7751&#7693it, being a learned scholar of religion) Ga&#7751&#7693&#257 Si&#7749gh as president. The aims and objects of the society were, like those of the Si&#7749gh Sabh&#257s in general, to propagate <i>gurmat</i> or the principles of Sikh religion and culture and to restore to the Sikh people their religious identity. More specifically, the Sabh&#257 concerned itself with counteracting the attacks of the &#256rya Kum&#257r Sabh&#257 of Amritsar against the Sikh religion. Death successively of some of its top leaders during the closing years of the nineteenth century had weakened the Lahore <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 D&#299w&#257n. The severest blow came with the passing away on 6 September 1901 of Gi&#257n&#299 Ditt Si&#7749gh. Sr&#299 Gur&#363 Upk&#257r Prach&#257rn&#299 Sabh&#257 attempted to fill the gap and joined polemic with the &#256rya Kum&#257r Sabh&#257. It had two separate cells --a debating club and a publicity department. Lectures and discourses by eminent Sikh scholars were arranged, and challenges of &#256rya Kum&#257r Sabh&#257 for public debates readily accepted. A monthly Punjabi journal, <i>Upk&#257r&#299</i>, was launched in 1902 under the editorship of Pa&#7751&#7693it Ga&#7751&#7693&#257 Si&#7749gh. Ga&#7751&#7693&#257 Si&#7749gh also wrote a 256 page tract in Urdu, <i>Nus<u>kh</u>ah-i-<u>Kh</u>abt-i-Day&#257nand&#299&#257&#7749</i> or Prescription for the insanity of the followers of Day&#257nand, in refutation of an essay by L&#257l&#257 S&#257hib Day&#257l, <i>ll&#257j-i-Vaham&#257t-i-Ditt Si&#7749gh&#299&#257&#7749</i> or Remedy for the fancies of the followers of Ditt Si&#7749gh. Ga&#7751&#7693&#257 Si&#7749gh was in fact the moving spirit behind the Sr&#299 Gur&#363 Upk&#257r Prach&#257rn&#299 Sabh&#257, and his death, by plague, on 11 February 1910, signalled the end of its brief career.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Dukh&#299, Munsh&#257 Si&#7749gh, <i>J&#299van Bh&#257&#299 S&#257hib Bh&#257&#299 Mohan Si&#7749gh J&#299 Vaid</i>. Lahore, 1931<BR>
<li class="C1"> Jagjit Si&#7749gh, <i>Si&#7749gh Sabh&#257 Lahir</i>. Ludhiana, 1974<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Jagj&#299t Si&#7749gh <br></p><BR>
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