Tarana singh biography of mahatma
Tarana singh biography of mahatma
Tara Singh Biography - Joseph Plan.
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.
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 seekin