Sikh
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historian
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. He was born in
Jhabal
Chabhal Kalan (also known as Jhabal Kalan) is a town in the Tarn Taran district of Punjab, India and is located away from Amritsar city.
Description
The neighboring villages are Chabhal Khurd, Thathi, Sohal, Sarai Amanat Khan Nurdin, Lalu G ...
a town south of
Amritsar
Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Majha r ...
. His father Jhanda Singh belonged to traditional Sikh family.
Education
Having studied primary school in Jhabaal, Middle from Khalsa Collegiate School,
Amritsar
Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Majha r ...
, he attended Khalsa College,
Amritsar
Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Majha r ...
for higher studies. He had good command in
Punjabi
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,
Hindi
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. During his college time while he was nearing to complete his B.A. degree an idea struck him that since aged persons of Maharaja Ranjit Singh times will die soon, why not collect historic narrations from their mouth. He left college to pursue his interest in oral history.
After Education
In year academic year 1905–06, near dec 2005 he left studies against will of his family members and friends, when he was about to complete his graduation in 3 months. There was no one to support his passion of collecting notes and references. He thought of purchasing daily diaries of Ranjit Singhs’ Darbar available with various sources but no one came to his support . In order to earn livelihood he learned techniques of making blocks and successfully started a poster production business producing pictures of historic heroes and Sikh gurus. He also served Patiala State as Historian . In spite of being a Sikh, he undertook a long travel to Baghdad by being dressed as Muslim. His intention was to travel to Mecca and collect some historic evidences for Guru Nanak's visit there. He was recognised by some of his co travellers and he had to come back from Baghdad. In order to support his expenses he even purchased land and became a successful agriculturist. But simultaneously all along he kept writing articles on Sikh history in Phulwari monthly and published many books of great historic value.
Contributions
He was a prolific author. He wrote extensively and his writings have reached us in the form of numerous notes, diary entries and manuscripts. Some of his published works are as under:(Punjabi) ਸਿੱਖ ਧਰਮ ਦੇ ਮਹਾਨ ਵਿਦਵਾਨ, Sikh Missionary College (Regd.), Ludhiana
* Banda Bahadur (Punjabi, ਬੰਦਾ ਬਹਾਦਰ)
* Katak Ki Visakh (Punjabi, ਕਤਕ ਕਿ ਵਸਾਖ)
* Jeevan Harnaam Kaur (Punjabi, ਜੀਵਨ ਹਰਨਾਮ ਕੌਰ)
* Jeevan Sada Kaur (Punjabi, ਜੀਵਨ ਸਦਾ ਕੌਰ)
* Banda Kaun tha (Urdu, بندہ کون تھا؟)
* Maharaja Ala Singh (Punjabi, ਮਹਾਰਾਜਾ ਆਲਾ ਸਿੰਘ)
* Gurpurb Nirnay (Punjabi, ਗੁਰਪੁਰਬ ਨਿਰਣੈ)
* Amar Khalsa (Punjabi, ਅਮਰ ਖ਼ਾਲਸਾ)
* Gur Gatha (Punjabi, ਗੁਰ ਗਾਥਾ)
Recognition in Society and death
On 22 December 1929 at a meeting held at AkalTakhat Amritsar, he established Sikh Historical Society of which he was its secretary. At the same time management of Khasa College wanted to establish Sikh History Research department under him. But he became terribly ill with attack of pneumonia and died on 18 September 1930. Khalsa College established this department at his blog ceremony later.
See also
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Sikhism
Sikhism (), also known as Sikhi ( pa, ਸਿੱਖੀ ', , from pa, ਸਿੱਖ, lit=disciple', 'seeker', or 'learner, translit=Sikh, label=none),''Sikhism'' (commonly known as ''Sikhī'') originated from the word ''Sikh'', which comes fro ...
*
Guru Granth Sahib
The Guru Granth Sahib ( pa, ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ, ) is the central holy religious scripture of Sikhism, regarded by Sikhs as the final, sovereign and Guru Maneyo Granth, eternal Guru following the lineage of the Sikh gur ...
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Punjabi Language
Punjabi (; ; , ), sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It has approximately 113 million native speakers.
Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 m ...
References
Further reading
# Grover, Bhupinder singh; ''Karam singh historian Jiwan ate rachna''
# Jasbir singh ''Karam singh historian di itihasik Vartak''
# Dard, Hira singh; ''Karam singh historian di itihasik khoj''
# ''Fulwari Karam singh'' number, October-1930, Amritsar