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<p class="C1">&#65279VARY&#256M SI&#7748GH, PA&#7750&#7692IT (1864-1953), religious scholar and preacher, was born the son of Dhann&#257 Si&#7749gh, a peasant of moderate means living in the village of Jabbov&#257l, now in the Kap&#363rthal&#257 district of the Punjab. Losing his father at the age of 14, he took up his ancestral profession of farming, and as a hobby started practising wrestling. But he soon left both and proceeded to the holy city of Amritsar to devote himself to learning. Besides the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib, he read there classics such as <i>Vrit&#299 Prabh&#257kar, Vich&#257r S&#257gar, Mok&#7779a Panth Prak&#257s</i> with Bh&#257&#299 Amrik Si&#7749gh. He then studied under Pa&#7751&#7693it K&#257k&#257 R&#257m who taught him grammar and prosody. Vary&#257m Si&#7749gh made a reputation for himself in religious debate. For his learning, he earned the sobriquet of <i>pa&#7751&#7693it</i>. As a preacher, he promoted the reformist ideology of the Si&#7749gh Sabh&#257 movement and espoused the cause of Sikh education on behalf of the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 College Governing Council. Working for the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 D&#299w&#257n N&#257bh&#257, he attracted the attention of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 H&#299r&#257 Si&#7749gh (1843-1911), who appointed him president of the Dharamarth (charities) Committee of the State and religious tutor to the sons of Sard&#257r Shamsher Si&#7749gh of Ba&#7693ruk<u>kh</u>&#257&#7749. There-after the services of Pa&#7751&#7693it Vary&#257m Si&#7749gh were secured successively by several aristocratic families such as the So&#7693h&#299s of Kart&#257rpur and the Sard&#257rs of Dhammom&#257jr&#257.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pa&#7751&#7693it Vary&#257m Si&#7749gh died on 25 January 1953.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><i><u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 Sam&#257ch&#257r</i>. Amritsar, 23 and 30 April 1953<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Janak Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR>
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