ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>TEJ&#256 SI&#7748GH SANT</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,SANT"> <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, SANT, earlier name Narañjan Si&#7749gh was born on 14 May 1877 in a Mahit&#257 Khatr&#299 family (father : Ral&#299&#257 Si&#7749gh : mother : Sad&#257 Kaur) at the village of Ballov&#257l&#299, in Gujr&#257&#7749w&#257l&#257 district of the Punjab (now in Pakistan). Tej&#257 Si&#7749gh completed his schooling at Faz&#299lk&#257 and then went to Lahore where he received his Master's degree in English literature in 1900 from Pañj&#257b University, studying at Government College. At Lahore he also took the Law degree. His first appointment was as headmaster of the Anglo-Sanskrit High School, Bher&#257. He was vice-principal of the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 College at Amritsar when he received the rites of initiation at the hands of Sant Atar Si&#7749gh of Mast&#363&#257&#7751&#257 (1906), receiving the Name of Tej&#257 Si&#7749gh. Sant Atar Si&#7749gh sent him abroad, along with four other young Sikhs, for higher studies. In August 1906 Tej&#257 Si&#7749gh joined the University College, London, but left it without completing the course to join the Teachers College, Columbia University, in the U.S.A., to train as a teacher. From Columbia, he transferred himself to Harvard when he got his A.M. in 1911. Along with his academic work, Tej&#257 Si&#7749gh had continued preaching the gospel of Gur&#363 N&#257nak. To this end he had, when in London, established a Sikh Jath&#257, and when in the U.S.A., lectured extensively in that country as well as in Canada.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Returning to India, he settled down at Mast&#363&#257&#7751&#257, the headquarters of Sant Atar Si&#7749gh. Briefly he was at Bhasau&#7771, not far from there, teaching at the Sikh women's college. He served as principal of the Gur&#363 N&#257nak <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 College from 1917-19. For a brief spell he also worked as principal of Teachers' College at Ban&#257ras Hindu University (1920-21). He was the founder principal of Ak&#257l Degree College, Mast&#363&#257&#7751&#257, an institution, aiming, as Sant Atar Si&#7749gh had willed, at combining humanistic study with crafts and mechanics.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sant Tej&#257 Si&#7749gh attended, in 1910, the Congress of Free Christianity and Religious Progress at Berlin, set up by the Unitarian Church of Chicago. In 1956, he participated in the 8th Conference of Religion for World Peace held in Japan contributing a paper entitled, "The Way to Establish World Peace." His major publication was biography in Punjabi of Sant Atar Si&#7749gh (Languages Department, Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257, 1970).</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sant Tej&#257 Si&#7749gh died at the village of Ch&#299m&#257 on 3 July 1965.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Vis&#257kh&#257 Si&#7749gh, Sant, <i>M&#257lv&#257 Itih&#257s</i>. Kishanpura, 1954<BR> <li class="C1"> Tej&#257 Si&#7749gh, <i>J&#299van Kath&#257 Gurmukh Pi&#257re Sant Atar Si&#7749gh J&#299 Mah&#257r&#257j</i>. Patiala, 1970<BR> <li class="C1"> Balwant Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Agam Ag&#257dh Purakh Shr&#299m&#257n P&#363jya Sant Atar Si&#7749gh J&#299 Mah&#257r&#257j Mast&#363&#257&#7751e V&#257l&#299&#257&#7749 d&#257 Samp&#363ran J&#299van Charittar</i>. Mastuana, 1983<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Surj&#299t Si&#7749gh G&#257ndh&#299<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>