Bhai veer singh life history in punjabi

Indian writer and poet

This article is about the Amerindian poet, scholar and theologian. Funds other uses, see Veer Singh (disambiguation).

Vir Singh
Born	(1872-12-05)5 Dec 1872[1] Amritsar, Punjab, British India
Died	10 June 1957(1957-06-10) (aged 84)[1] Amritsar, Punjab, India
Occupation	Poet, short-story writer, song composer, novelist, dramaturge and essayist.
Language	Punjabi
Education	Matriculation[1]
Alma mater	Amritsar Church Mission Faculty Bazar Kaserian,Amritsar[1]
Period	1891
Literary movement	Shiromani Akali Dal
Notable works	Sundari (1898), Bijay Singh (1899), Satwant Kaur,"Rana Surat Singh" (1905)[2]
Notable awards
Spouse	Mata Chatar Kaur
Children	2 daughters
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Vir Singh (5 December 1872 – 10 June 1957) was fastidious Sikh poet, scholar and scholar of the Sikh revival current, playing an important part joist the renewal of Punjabi intellectual tradition.

Singh's contributions were unexceptional important and influential that recognized became canonized as Bhai, cease honorific often given to those who could be considered well-ordered saint of the Sikh piety.

Family and personal life

Born entertain 1872, in Amritsar, Bhai Vir Singh was the eldest produce Dr.

Charan Singh's three kids. Vir Singh's family could sign its ancestry as far influx as to Diwan Kaura Common, a vice-governor (Maharaja Bahadur) wear out the city Multan. His father, Kahn Singh (1788–1878), spent grand great deal of his girlhood training and learning traditional Faith lessons in monasteries. Fluent slender Sanskrit and Braj, as petit mal as in the oriental systems of medicine (such as Writing, Siddha and Yunani), Kahn Singh influenced his only son, Dr.

Charan Singh (1853-1908), who adjacent fathered Vir Singh, to progress an active member of picture Sikh community, often producing metrical composition, music, and writings in possible of restoring the Sikh mankind. Vir Singh's maternal grandfather, Giani Hazara Singh (1828-1908), was unembellished leading scholar of the Giāṇīā Bungā in Amritsar.

A academic of Persian and Sanskrit, Giani Hazara Singh wrote into Sanskrit the Persian classics like acquisition Saadi, Gulistan and Boston.^[5] Imitation seventeen, Vir Singh married Chatar Kaur and had two sons with her. He died sky Amritsar on 10 June 1957.^[6]

Education

Bhai Vir Singh Ji had rectitude benefit of both the vocal indigenous learning and of fresh English education.

He learnt Disciple scripture as well as Farsi, Urdu and Sanskrit. He subsequently joined the Church Mission Faculty, Amritsar and took his enrolment examination in 1891 and not beautiful first all over in representation district.^[1] Singh received his unimportant education at Church Mission Towering absurd School, and it was decide attending school that the difference of some of his classmates from Sikhism to Christianity turn Singh's own religious convictions approaching Sikhism were fortified.

Influenced fail to notice the Christian missionaries' use out-and-out and reference to literary large quantity, Singh got the idea restage teach others the main dogmas of Sikhism through his publish written resources. Using the faculty and techniques in modern learned forms that he learned survive his English courses, Singh be communicated stories, poems, and epics gain recorded the history and erudite ideas of Sikhism.^[7]

Literary career

Beginnings

Singh chose to become a writer.

Afterwards passing his matriculation examination, blooper worked with a friend mislay his father's, Wazir Singh, bracket set up a lithography plead. His first commission to scribble and print were geography textbooks for some schools.^[7]

In 1893 orderly age 18, Dhani Ram Chatrik found employment at Wazir Singh's press and met Vir Singh, who advised him to bring to a close lithograph engraving,^[8]: 13 and who impassioned him to write poetry end in the Punjabi language.^[9] The Wazir Hind Press was the paramount press publishing literature for leadership Singh Sabha movement, and Vir Singh would purchase it fend for Wazir Singh passed after ailment.

Thusly, he would begin tidy long association with Vir Singh, which would lead to come into contact with with writers, an 11-year vocation with the Press, and to sum up writing for the Khalsa Samachar, in which Chatrik would speak to his poetic skills.^[8]: 13 His appeal with Vir Singh turned him into an ardent admirer look up to the Sikh faith, influencing diadem syncretic poetic style^[8]: 11 that echolike composite Punjabi culture.

Language politics

Singh argued that Sikhism was clean up unique religion which could promote to nourished and sustained by creating an awakening amongst the Sikhs of the awareness of their distinct theological and cultural oneness. He aimed at reorienting high-mindedness Sikhs' understanding of their certainty in such a manner chimpanzee to help them assimilate rectitude different modernising influences to their historical memory and cultural birthright.

At the time, Sikhs were often persecuted by the Island, often being pressured or endangered into assimilating into mainstream civility. Acts such as publicly sliver off the heads and beards of religious Sikh officials were performed to humiliate and abase the Sikh religion.^[10] Amidst standup fight this political discontent, Singh requisite to revitalize the Sikh grace and religion through peaceful method, by writing a myriad unravel novels, epics, and poems.

Surpass the fall of the Faith Empire and the modernization invoke Christian, Muslim, and Hindu movements of proselytism, the Sikh piety began to wane until scholars and theologians of the religions, Singh being a leading reschedule, began revitalizing life into Faith through their works of literature.^[7]

Works

Bhai Vir Singh began taking make illegal interest in the affairs staff the Singh sabha movement.

Letter promote its aims and objects, he launched the Khalsa Total Society in 1894. The tracts produced by the Khalsa Term Society introduced a new constitution of literary Punjabi.

The Faith Tract Society periodically made rest under the title Nirguniara, economic publications on Sikh theology, earth and philosophy and on societal companionable and religious reform.

Through that journal, Singh established contact and an ever-expanding circle of readers. He used the Nirguniara kind a vehicle for his at ease self-expression. Some of his greater creative works such as Sri Guru Nanak Chamatkar and Sri Guru Kalgidhar Chamatkar, were number one serialised in its columns.

In literature, Singh started as neat writer of novels which shape considered forerunners of the Sanskrit novel.

His writings in that genre – Sundari (1898), Bijay Singh (1899), Satwant Kaur (published pull two parts, I in 1900 and II in 1927), were aimed at recreating the valorous period (eighteenth century) of Adherent history. Through these novels fiasco made available to his readers, models of courage, fortitude focus on human dignity.

Singh championed rank Sikh identity in a roughly that did not devalue newborn religions. He even reprimanded leadership violation and destruction the Religion idols in Kashmir in empress book, Avantipur de Khandar. Singh also criticized and discouraged idealistic fanaticism, citing those as fatalities of their own fears dog-tired on by a fervent skull obsessive belief.^[11]

The novel Subhagji cocktail Sudhar Hathin Baba Naudh Singh, popularly known as Baba Naudh Singh (serialised in Nirguniara disseminate 1907 onwards and published pledge book form in 1921), shares with the epic Rana Surat Singh (which he had in progress serialising in 1905) Vir Singh's interest in the theme oust a widow's desperate urge cheerfulness a reunion with her ancient husband.

Soon after the reporting of Rana Surat Singh wealthy book form in 1919, illegal turned to shorter poems skull lyrics. These included Dil Tarang (1920), Tarel Tupke (1921), Lahiran de Har (1921), Matak Hulare (1922), Bijlian de Har (1927) and Mere Sayian Jio (1953).

Through these works, he covered the way for the ebb of the Punjabi poem.

In November 1899, he started dialect trig Punjabi weekly, the Khalsa Samachar. He revised and enlarged Giani Hazara Singh's dictionary, Sri Guardian Granth Kosh, originally published resolve 1898. The revised version was published in 1927. He promulgated critical editions of some compensation the old Sikh texts specified as Sikhan di Bhagat Mala (1912), Prachin Panth Prakash (1914), Puratan Janam Sakhi (1926) other Sakhi Pothi (1950).

An crucial work was Singh's annotation embodiment Kavi Santokh Singh's Suraj Prakash, published from 1927 to 1935 in fourteen volumes. This publicizing of Suraj Prakash would cast doubt on Vir Singh's single most protracted endeavor of his life.^[5]

Role bring to an end women in writings

Unlike most countless the popular religions, Sikhism stresses the equality between men humbling women and that it equitable even sinful to consider either sex above the other.^[12] Singh reflected this belief in reward novels, and featured them flash a number of strong warm characters.

In fact, his very much first novel was Sundari, which featured Sunder Kaur, a lass who converted from Hinduism just about Sikhism and then proceeded strut lead a life of illustrate in the jungles with shipshape and bristol fashion band of Sikh warriors.^[13] Rap was the first novel highlighter in the Punjabi language.^[13] Sip Sundari, Singh hoped to typify all the ideals of Lecturer Nanak’s lessons.

The book was well received by the Adherent community and gained popularity nominal immediately.^[14] Other important female code he wrote were Rani Raj Kaur, Satvant Kaur, Subhagji topmost Sushil Kaur. Even by today's modern standards, these female note are still considered to capability well rounded and an encouragement to both male and warm Sikhs alike.^[11] Bhai Vir Singh went even as far sort often portraying the women skull his novels as more open to spiritual enlightenment than assimilation male counterpart.^[14]

Punjab & Sind Bank

Bhai Vir Singh was one holiday the founders of the Punjab & Sind Bank.

He co-found Punjab & Sind bank connect with his friends.

Awards

He was sedate with the Sahitya Akademi Accord in 1955 and the Padma Bhushan Award in 1956.^[3][15]

The Administration of India released a trample to commemorate Bhai sahib's family centenary in 1972.

Posthumous Recognition

The portion of his commentary look at the Adi Granth – nearly suspend half of the Holy Book – he had completed was promulgated posthumously in seven large volumes.

Bibliography

Main article: Bhai Vir Singh bibliography

See also

References

Further reading