ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>&#7788AHIL SI&#7748GH BH&#256&#298 (1875-1921)</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="lAHIL,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">&#65279&#7788AHIL SI&#7748GH, BH&#256&#298 (1875-1921), one of the Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib martyrs, was born in 1875, the eldest son of Bh&#257&#299 Chand&#257 Si&#7749gh and M&#257&#299 Rukko, Kamboj residents of Niz&#257mpur village in Amritsar district. On the opening of the Lower Chen&#257b Canal Colony in western Punjab (now Pakistan), the family moved, in 1892, to Chakk No. 38 Niz&#257mpur Dev&#257 Si&#7749ghv&#257l&#257 in Shei<u>kh</u>&#363pur&#257 area. In 1902 &#7788ahil Si&#7749gh went abroad to Malaya (now Malaysia) where he worked as a watchman in Kuala Lumpur. He came back to India in 1909 but left again after two years. In 1915 he finally returned home on his father's death. He began associating himself with progressive and reformist movements. He enlisted as a volunteer for the Rik&#257bgañj agitation, preached reformists' policies and programmes in the surrounding villages, took an active part in the political conference held at Dh&#257rov&#257l&#299 on 13 October 1920, participated in the liberation of Gurdw&#257r&#257 B&#257be d&#299 ber, Si&#257lko&#7789, Gurdw&#257r&#257 Khar&#257 Saud&#257, Ch&#363a&#7771k&#257&#7751&#257, and Sr&#299 Darb&#257r S&#257hib, Tarn T&#257ran. On 19 February 1921, he marshalled 20 volunteers from his own village and joined the <i>jath&#257</i> led by Bh&#257&#299 Lachhma&#7751 Si&#7749gh Dh&#257rov&#257l&#299 proceeding to liberate Gurdw&#257r&#257 J&#257nam Asth&#257n, Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib. As the <i>jath&#257</i> approached the shrine in the early morning of 20 February, Chaudhar&#299 P&#257l Si&#7749gh Ly&#257llpur&#299, a local leader, happened to meet them and informed them about the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Committee's decision to postpone action and advised them to go back. At this Bh&#257&#299 &#7788ahil Si&#7749gh pushed forward and declared that they had said their <i>ard&#257s</i> and pledged their word to the Gur&#363 not to turn their back on their resolution and that any retreat at that stage was unthinkable. At this the entire <i>jath&#257</i> went at a sprint and entered the compound of Gurdw&#257r&#257 Janam Asth&#257n where the hired assassins of Mahant Narai&#7751 D&#257s, already alerted and equipped with lethal arms and material for a mass pyre, butchered them en masse.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Shamsher, Gurba<u>kh</u>sh Si&#7749gh, <i>Shah&#299d&#299 J&#299van</i>. Nankana Sahib, 1938<BR> </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>