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'''Bhai Charan Singh''' (d. 1921), one of the Nankana Sahib martyrs, was the son of Bhai Gokal Singh and Mai Lachhman Kaur of Diriga village, in Gujrat district. He lost his mother during infancy. His old grandmother looked after him for about five years and was then sent to live with his maternal aunt in a village in Lyallpur district where a childless neighbour Bhai Piara Singh adopted him as his son. He took the vows of the KHALSA at the age of 15. He adopted tattooing as a profession. On 18 February 1921, when he learnt that his adoptive father, Piara Singh, had left home to participate in the liberation of gurdwaras at Nankana Sahib, Charan Singh, too, took a train and joined the Lyallpur jatha at Sangia Hill railway junction. The Jatha was attacked and massacred upon reaching Gurdwara Janam Asthan at Nankana Sahib on the morning of 20 February 1921. | |||
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1. Shamsher, Gurbakhsh Singh, ShahidiJivan. Nankana Sahib, 1938 | |||
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Bhai Charan Singh (1902 - 1921), son of Bhai Gurdit Singh and Mai Sada Kaur of the village ofKotla SANTa Singh in Sheikhupura district, now in Pakistan, was born on 12 Maghar 1959 Bk/26 November 1902. His original name was Karnail Singh and he was renamed Charan Singh when he received the vows of the KHALSA. He attended the village primary school. He had a musical voice and got up a dhadi jatha (band of preachers singing heroic ballads from SIKH history to the accompaniment of small tambourines called dhads and a SARANGi, a stringed instrument). He himself played the sarangi. He was present at the historic Dharovali conference (13 October 1920) and at the time of the liberation ofDarbar Sahib Tarn Taran (27 January 1921). Charan Singh was a member of Bhai Lachhman Singh Dharovali`s jatha doing duty as a correspondent writing letters to volunteers summoning them to the liberation of Gurdwara Janam Asthan at Nankana Sahib. He himself accompanied the jatha and fell a victim in the violence unleashed by the custodian Narain Das and his men (20 February 1921).
References
1. Shamsher, Gurbakhsh Singh, ShahidiJivan. Nankana Sahib, 1938
Bhai Charan Singh (d. 1921), one of the Nankana Sahib martyrs, was the son of Bhai Gokal Singh and Mai Lachhman Kaur of Diriga village, in Gujrat district. He lost his mother during infancy. His old grandmother looked after him for about five years and was then sent to live with his maternal aunt in a village in Lyallpur district where a childless neighbour Bhai Piara Singh adopted him as his son. He took the vows of the KHALSA at the age of 15. He adopted tattooing as a profession. On 18 February 1921, when he learnt that his adoptive father, Piara Singh, had left home to participate in the liberation of gurdwaras at Nankana Sahib, Charan Singh, too, took a train and joined the Lyallpur jatha at Sangia Hill railway junction. The Jatha was attacked and massacred upon reaching Gurdwara Janam Asthan at Nankana Sahib on the morning of 20 February 1921.
References
1. Shamsher, Gurbakhsh Singh, ShahidiJivan. Nankana Sahib, 1938
