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Ian J. Kerr
㰀⼀昀漀渀琀㸀ഀഀ
ARŪṚ SIṄGH, SARDĀR BAHĀDUR SIR (1865-1926), sarbarāh (manager) of the principal Sikh shrines at Amritsar and Tarn Tāran from 1907 to 1920, much maligned for his role during the popular movement for reform in the management of Sikh shrines, came of a well-known Shergil family of Naushahrā in Amritsar district, also called Naushahrā Naṅglī, to distinguish it from another village sharing the same name, Naushahrā Pannūāṅ, in the same district. His grandfather, Jassā Siṅgh, had been for two years in charge of the Golden Temple under Lahiṇā Siṅgh Majīṭhīā. Arūṛ Siṅgh was hardly four years old when his father, Harnām Siṅgh, a deputy superintendent of police, died in 1868. Brought up under a court of wards and educated at Government High School, Amritsar, Arūṛ Siṅgh came into full possession of his family estate in 1885. In 1888, he was made an honorary magistrate class II, with powers over 133 villages of Kathū Naṅgal police circle. In 1907 he was made magistrate class I and a provincial darbārī (courtier), and was also appointed by government sarbarāh in spite of the reformers' demand that the right to appoint the sarbarāh should vest in the Sikh community itself. It was bruited about that Arūṛ Siṅgh had set apart for certain British officers valuable presents from the toshākhānā (treasury) of the Darbār Sāhib. An agitation was set afoot against him on this account. However, it came to nothing; likewise, later complaints laid against him of mismanagement and corruption in the gurdwārās under his charge were rejected.
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Ian J. Kerr