Tara singh real story
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Tara Singh (activist)
Indian Sikh political and religious leader
Tara Singh (24 June 1885 – 22 November 1967) was a Sikh political and religious figure in India in the first half of the 20th century. He was instrumental in organising the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee and guiding the Sikhs during the partition of India, which he strongly opposed.[2]
He later led their demand for a Sikh-majority state in East Punjab. His daughter was the Indian journalist and politician Rajinder Kaur.[3][4]
Early life
Singh was born on 24 June 1885 in Rawalpindi, Punjab Province in British India into a Malhotra Khatri family.[5][6] Later he became a high school teacher upon his graduation from Lyallpur Khalsa College, Lyallpur, in 1907. Singh's career in education was within the Sikh school system and the use of "Master" as a prefix to his name reflects this period.[1]
Political career
Singh was ardent in his desire to promote and protect the cause of Sikhism. This often put him at odds with civil auth
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Who was Master Tara Singh for whom the SAD sought Bharat Ratna
Born into a Hindu Khatri Sehajdhari Malhotra family in the village of Haryal near Rawalpindi on June 24, 1885, Nanak Chand was greatly influenced by stories of Sikh martyrs. He developed strong reservations against Arya Samaji activists and became a baptised Sikh at a young age, adopting the name Tara Singh.
Tara Singh, who joined his first anti-British agitation in 1907, completed his graduation from Khalsa College of Punjab University before getting a job as the headmaster of Khalsa High School, Lyallpur. Singh would spend his salary for the school and soon came to be ‘Master’ Tara Singh. He also published two Punjabi newspapers for some time.
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He was among the founding members of the SGPC and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) as both came into existence in 1920. Master Tara Singh played a leading role in the largely non-violent gurudwara reform movement for the next five years and went to jail several times while seeking to take back control of gurudwaras from the Britishers. The Gurdw
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TARA SINGH was known as a teacher, author, poet and humanitarian. Born in 1919, he spent the early years of his life in a small village in Punjab, India. From this sheltered environment his family then traveled and lived in Europe and Central America. At 22, his search for the truth led him to the Himalayas where he lived for four years as an ascetic. He described this time as his outgrowing of conventional religion, where he discovered “that a mind conditioned by religious or secular beliefs is always limited.” He subsequently responded to the poverty of India through participation in that country's postwar industrialization and international affairs. He became a close friend of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and other great leaders who helped to frame India’s constitution. After the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, he came to America to observe the impact of science on society and to learn how technology could benefit a free India. Even though he had less than three years of formal education, he met and associated with key thinkers, leaders and educators in
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