ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>AM&#298R SI&#7748GH GI&#256N&#298 (1870-1954)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="AM*R,SIDGH,GIN*,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279AM&#298R SI&#7748GH, GI&#256N&#298 (1870-1954), a widely revered Sikh schoolman, was born in 1870 at the village of Darg&#257h&#299 Sh&#257h in Jha&#7749g district, now in Pakistan. His parents, Prem Si&#7749gh and &#7788h&#257kar&#299 Dev&#299, a religious minded couple of modest means, admitted him at the age of 15 to Mahant Jaw&#257har Si&#7749gh Sev&#257panth&#299's <i>&#7693er&#257</i> or monastery, in Sattov&#257l&#299 Gal&#299 in Amritsar, to learn Sikh sacred music and scriptures. After the death, in 1888, of Mahant Jaw&#257har Si&#7749gh, Am&#299r Si&#7749gh had his further education and religious training under Mahant Uttam Si&#7749gh, the new head of the <i>&#7693er&#257</i>, and later from Gi&#257n&#299 Bhagv&#257n Si&#7749gh and Gi&#257n&#299 <i>Ba<u>kh</u>sh&#299sh</i> Si&#7749gh, both noted men of letters of their time. Soon Gi&#257n&#299 Am&#299r Si&#7749gh's scholarship came to be acknowledged. Mahant Uttam Si&#7749gh, head of the <i>&#7693er&#257</i>, chose him his successor during his own lifetime. For over 60 years, Gi&#257n&#299 Am&#299r Si&#7749gh taught Sikh scriptural texts to hundreds of scholars at his <i>&#7693er&#257</i> in Sattov&#257l&#299 Gal&#299, which became a well known school of Sikh learning. In expounding the holy Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib and other texts such as the <i>Dasam Granth</i> and <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>, he had few rivals.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gi&#257n&#299 Am&#299r Si&#7749gh, who remained celibate all his life, dressed himself in a white toga. In 1945, he was chosen president of the R&#257gam&#257l&#257 Ma&#7751&#7693an Committee formed to counteract the movement for the expunction from the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib of the last composition, <i>R&#257gam&#257l&#257</i>, recounting in verse some of the <i>r&#257gas</i>or musical measures employed in the Holy Book.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gi&#257n&#299 Am&#299r Si&#7749gh died at Amritsar on 17 October 1954 at the ripe age of 84 and was succeeded by Sant Kirp&#257l Si&#7749gh as head of the <i>&#7693er&#257</i>.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Gurmukh Si&#7749gh, <i>Sev&#257panth&#299&#257&#7749 d&#299 Pañj&#257b&#299 S&#257hit n&#363&#7749 De&#7751</i>. Patiala, 1986<BR> <li class="C1"> L&#257l Chand, Bh&#257&#299, <i>Sr&#299 Sant Ratan M&#257l&#257</i>. Patiala, 1954<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Sarmukh Si&#7749gh Amole<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>