Teja Singh was an Indian
Sikh
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scholar, teacher, author and translator.
Early life
Teja Singh was born on June 2, 1894, in
Adiala village,
Rawalpindi district
Rawalpindi District ( Punjabi and ur, ) is a district located in the northernmost part of the Punjab province of Pakistan. Parts of the district form part of the Islamabad Rawalpindi metropolitan area. Rawalpindi city is the district capi ...
,
Punjab Province,
British India
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to parents Bhai Bhalakar Singh and Srusti. He grazed livestock and studied within the village until 1908, when we moved to
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...
city to garner a further and better education.
Books
Books in English
*Growth of Responsibility in Sikhism (1919)
*The Asa-di-Var (1926)
*Highroads of Sikh History, in three volumes (1935), published by Orient Longman
*Sikhism: Its Ideals and Institutions, published by Orient Longman
*Punjabi-English Dictionary, revised and edited for Lahore University
*English-Punjabi Dictionary, Vol.1 (Punjabi University Solan).
References
External links
Teja Singh materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
1894 births
1958 deaths
Canadian Sikhs
People from Rawalpindi
Indian emigrants to Canada
Indian Sikhs
Scholars of Sikhism
Sikh writers
Writers from Vancouver
Indian translators
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