ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>VARY&#256M SI&#7748GH BH&#256&#298 (1889-1921)</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="VARYM,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">&#65279VARY&#256M SI&#7748GH, BH&#256&#298 (1889-1921), one of the Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib martyrs, was born on 13 January 1889, the son of Bh&#257&#299 Bhagv&#257n Si&#7749gh and M&#257&#299 Chand Kaur of &#7788ibb&#299 Jai Si&#7749gh, a village in Montgomery district (now S&#257h&#299v&#257l) in Pakistan. He attended the village school in the neighbouring Ga&#7771h to which he and his mother had shifted after the death of his father. He started life as a village shopkeeper. He took the vows of the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 and observed them faithfully. When the Gurdw&#257r&#257 Reform movement gathered momentum in 1920, Bh&#257&#299 Vary&#257m Si&#7749gh went to Shei<u>kh</u>&#363pur&#257 and then to Gurdw&#257r&#257 Khar&#257 Saud&#257, Ch&#363ha&#7771k&#257&#7751&#257, where he joined the <i>jath&#257</i> of Bh&#257&#299 Kart&#257r Si&#7749gh Jhabbar, and served in Gur&#363 k&#257 La&#7749gar for some time. Jathed&#257r Jhabbar then sent him to Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib where he, disguised as an Ud&#257s&#299 <i>s&#257dhu</i>, gathered intelligence about Mahant Narai&#7751 D&#257s' moves and reported it to the local Ak&#257l&#299 leaders such as Bh&#257&#299 Uttam Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299 Dal&#299p Si&#7749gh and Chaudhar&#299 P&#257l Si&#7749gh. On the morning of 20 February l921, when they heard the firing upon Bh&#257&#299 Lachhma&#7751 Si&#7749gh's <i>jath&#257</i> in Gurdw&#257r&#257 J&#257nam Asth&#257n and Bh&#257&#299 Dal&#299p Si&#7749gh ran towards the Gurdw&#257r&#257 in order to plead with the Mahant to stop the firing, Bh&#257&#299 Vary&#257m Si&#7749gh also accompanied him. While Bh&#257&#299 Dal&#299p Si&#7749gh was shot at by the Mahant himself, Bh&#257&#299 Vary&#257m Si&#7749gh was struck down by one of his hired killers. Bodies of both of them were thrown into the burning fires.</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>