ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>SUNDAR SI&#7748GH BH&#256&#298 (1898-1924)</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="SUNDAR,SIDGH,BH*,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">&#65279SUNDAR SI&#7748GH, BH&#256&#298 (1898-1924), one of the Jaito martyrs, was born the son of Bh&#257&#299 Mans&#257 Si&#7749gh and M&#257&#299 R&#257j Kaur of Karamga&#7771h Satr&#257&#7749 village, 20 km west of Ba&#7789hi&#7751&#7693&#257. After attending school for two years at the village of Ko&#7789 Bh&#257&#299, he shifted over to a Gurmukh&#299 school where he practised the reading of the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib. He received the rites of the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 at the age of 12 and stayed for a few years at Amritsar further to study the Sikh texts.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He enlisted during World War I in the transport wing of the army, and served in the Pesh&#257war-La&#7751&#7693&#299 Kotal region of the North-West Frontier Province for a few years. Sundar Si&#7749gh resigned soon after the Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib occurrence and turned an Ak&#257l&#299 activist. He was named secretary of the Ba&#7789hi&#7751&#7693&#257 <i>tahs&#299l</i> Ak&#257l&#299 Jath&#257. Shortly before the tragedy at Jaito, he had injured his knee in a fall from his horse, but he insisted on going to watch the progress of the first Shah&#299d&#299 Jath&#257, and assisted by his elder brother Indar Si&#7749gh and Jathed&#257r Khet&#257 Si&#7749gh, met the Jath&#257 at its last halt at Barg&#257&#7771&#299. He was limping along a flank of the front lines of the Jath&#257 during its march towards Jaito on 21 February 1924 when on its approach near Gurdw&#257r&#257 &#7788ibb&#299 S&#257hib, the N&#257bh&#257 state forces opened fire on the advancing multitude. Bh&#257&#299 Sundar Si&#7749gh was hit in the neck and killed on the spot.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Gurcharan Si&#7749gh Gi&#257n&#299<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>