AMAR SIṄGH (1888-1948), of the Sher-i-Punjab, journalist, scholar and a prominent figure in Sikh politics, was born on 27 May 1888 at Piṇḍī Gheb in Attock district of the Punjab, now in Pakistan. His grandfather, Gauhar Siṅgh, had held a civil appointment under Mahārājā Raṇjīt Siṅgh. He spent his childhood and received education in Urdu and Persian in Jammū and Kashmīr where his father, Gulāb Siṅgh, was an employee of the ruler, Mahārājā Pratāp Siṅgh. After his father's death, the family settled in Rāwalpiṇḍī where Amar Siṅgh ran a shop for some time before he adopted journalism as his profession. He launched the Lyall Gazette, a weekly in Urdu, under the patronage of the Chief Khālsā Dīwān whose point of view on political, religious and social issues he supported and discussed in his writings. He gradually turned away from the moderate policies of the Dīwān, and identified himself with the more radical politics of Bābā Khaṛak Siṅgh. In 1921, he renamed his paper Sher-i-Punjab ("Lion of the Punjab") which title became an epithet popularly added to his name. The paper still continues to be issued under this name, since the partition of the Punjab, from Delhi.
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Jaṅg Bahādur Siṅgh