ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>TEJ&#256 SI&#7748GH AKARPUR&#298 JATHED&#256R (1892-1975)</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="TEJ,SIDGH,AKARPUR*,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">&#65279TEJ&#256 SI&#7748GH AKARPUR&#298, JATHED&#256R (1892-1975), an active figure in Gurdw&#257r&#257 Reform movement, was born at Akarpur&#257, a village 13 km northwest of Ba&#7789&#257l&#257 (31º-49N, 75º-12'E), in Gurd&#257spur district of the Punjab. His father was P&#257l&#257 Si&#7749gh and mother Part&#257p Kaur. He matriculated from <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 Collegiate School, Amritsar, in 1911, and enlisted in the 24th Sikh Battalion of the Indian Army the following year. Leaving the Army, he became a <i>pa&#7789v&#257r&#299</i> in the revenue department of the Punjab at the end of 1914. He was promoted <i>ziled&#257r</i> in 1918. The Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib massacre of February 1921 proved a turning point in the life of Tej&#257 Si&#7749gh. He resigned from government service and joined the Ak&#257l&#299 agitation. The Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee appointed him administrator of Gurdw&#257r&#257 Premsat&#299 at Kam&#257l&#299&#257, in Montgomery district, now in Pakistan. He was appointed Jathed&#257r of Sr&#299 Ak&#257l Ta<u>kh</u>t at Amritsar on 29 April 1921. On 13 October 1923, he was taken into custody by the Punjab Government and released on 27 November 1926, in the second batch of Ak&#257l&#299 detenues. He resumed his duties as Jathed&#257r Sr&#299 Ak&#257l Ta<u>kh</u>t which position he retained until 21 January 1930. During 1932, he was appointed at first acting president and later president of the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee and president of Shiroma&#7751&#299 Ak&#257l&#299 Dal. He became a member of the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee again in 1933 and was elected its vice-president. He was president of Sr&#299 Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib management committee from 1935 to 1938. In the Punjab Assembly elections in January 1937, he contested the Ba&#7789&#257l&#257 constituency as a nominee of the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Ak&#257l&#299 Dal, but lost to Sir Sundar Si&#7749gh Maj&#299&#7789h&#299&#257, leader of the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 National Party. He was again elected a member of the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee in 1939. In 1940, he became president of the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Ak&#257l&#299 Dal and presided over the first Sarb Hind (lit. All India) Ak&#257l&#299 Conference at A&#7789&#257r&#299, in Amritsar district, on 10-11 February 1940. Jathed&#257r Tej&#257 Si&#7749gh Akarpur&#299 was a member of the first Lok Sabh&#257 from 1952 to 1957 representing his native district, Gurd&#257spur. He died at his ancestral village Akarpur&#257 on 20 November 1975.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Pi&#257r Si&#7749gh, <i>Tej&#257 Si&#7749gh Samundr&#299</i>. Amritsar, 1975<BR> <li class="C1"> Ashok, Shamsher Si&#7749gh, <i>Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Prabandhak Committee d&#257 Pañj&#257h S&#257l&#257 Itih&#257s</i> Amritsar, 1982<BR> <li class="C1"> Josh, Sohan Si&#7749gh <i>Ak&#257l&#299 Morchi&#257&#7749 d&#257 Itih&#257s</i>. Delhi,1972<BR> <li class="C1"> Prat&#257p Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Gurdw&#257r&#257 Sudh&#257r arth&#257t Ak&#257l&#299 Lahir</i>. Amritsar, 1975<BR> <li class="C1"> Sahni, Ruchi Ram, <i>Struggle for Reform in Sikh Shrines</i>, ed., Ganda Si&#7749gh. Amritsar, n.d.<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Part&#257p Si&#7749gh Gi&#257n&#299<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>