ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>&#7788H&#256KAR SI&#7748GH BH&#256&#298 (1890-1921)</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="lHKAR,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&#7788H&#256KAR SI&#7748GH, BH&#256&#298 (1890-1921), one of the Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib martyrs, was the son of Bh&#257&#299 Indar Si&#7749gh and M&#257&#299 Atar Kaur of the village of M&#257&#7751ak Ghumman, in Jalandhar district. In the hope of a better living he migrated to Chakk No. 91 Dhann&#363&#257&#7751&#257, district Lyallpur, in the Lower Chen&#257b Canal Colony, and settled on an agricultural farm he had rented. Most of the colonizers of this village had come from Jalandhar district. &#7788h&#257kar Si&#7749gh had felt at home here from the very beginning and soon became very popular for his open and polite manner. Dhann&#363&#257&#7751&#257 was a village which had become politically very alive under the influence of Ak&#257l&#299 reformation.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Like other Ak&#257l&#299 activists of the village, &#7788h&#257kar Si&#7749gh joined the <i>jath&#257</i> of Bh&#257&#299 Lachhma&#7751 Si&#7749gh Dh&#257rov&#257l&#299 and fell a martyr under the shower of bullets from the opponent of reform (20 February 1921).</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>