ISHAR SINGH MARHANA (1878-1941), Akali activist and Ghadr revolutionary, was born on 1 January 1878, younger of the two sons of BhaIJind Singh, a SandhuJatt, and Mai Chand Kaur, of farming stock of the village of Marhana, near Tarn Taran, in Ainritsar district of the Punjab. He learnt Gurmukhi in the village gurudwara and recited avidly his daily hymns every morning and helped his father and elder brother, Asa Singh, with farming. As he came of age, he was married to Bibi Har Kaur, daughter of Bhai Hira Singh, of Khanpur village in Nakodar tahsil of Jalandhar district.
MAN SINGH, JUSTICE (1887-1949), known as Bhai Man Singh up to his thirties, was born in 1887 at Ambala, now in Haryana, the youngest of the three sons of Nand Singh who had fought against the British in the second AngloSikh war (1849) and had then worked under them as superintendent of excise. Man Singh, who became an orphan at a very young age, attended successively Mission High School and A.S. High School in his native town and later joined the Khalsa College at Amritsar. While at school he had founded an association of Sikh youth, Khalsa Bhujharigi Dal, and now in Amritsar he took a leading part in setting up Khalsa Youngnnen Association and was the editor of its journal from 1905 to 1909.
MIRZA SINGH (d. 1787),wasson of Chuhar Singh, a Shergil Jatt. One of his ancestors, Chaudhari Sarvani, had founded the village of Naushera, also known as Raipur Sarvani, during the reign of Emperor Shah Jahari and was permitted to hold it rent free as remuneration for collecting the revenue of the neighbouring districts. For generations, the family held the office of chaudhanat paying the revenue into the government treasury until Mirza Singh, about 1752, joined the Kanhaiya misi under Sardars Jai Singh and Haqiqat Singh, and received from them several villages as his share of the conquered territory. Mirza Singh died in 1787, and Haqiqat Singh`s son,Jaimal Singh, resumed the major portion of his estates.
NARENDRA SINGH SANDHANVALIA (b. 1868), third son of Thakur Singh Sandharivalia who was prime minister of Maharaja Duleep Singh`s emigre government in Pondicherry. Born in 1868, he was 18 years old when he accompanied his father to that French territory to the south of Madras. Narendra Singh was betrothed to the daughter of Rao Umrao Singh of Kutesar, near Meerut. In August 1887, Thakur Singh died at Pondicherry, but Narendra Singh and his brothers were not allowed to return to British India until 1890. Narendra Singh, after his return from Pondicherry, lived at Meerut with his father in law, and was later adopted by Karivar Dharam Singh of Dadri.
PANJAB SINGH, RISALDAR MAJOR (d. 1869), soldier in the Sikh army and, upon the occupation of the Punjab in 1849, in the army of the British, was the grandson of Jodh Singh (d. 1837), a jdgirddr or feudatory of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, and the grandfather of Sardar Sir Jogendra Singh (1877-1946), who became famous as a writer and statesman. He was born the son of Gurmukh Singh at Rasulpur, in present day Amritsar district, in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Panjab Singh joined the ghorcharhds or irregular cavalry of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1834.
RAJINDER SINGH. MAHARAJA (1872-1900), son of Maharaja Mohinder Singh, was born at Patiala on 25 May 1872. After the death of his father, he ascended the throne of Patiala on 6 January 1877. During his regency the Sirhind canal was completed, and a broadguage railway line from Rajpura to Bathinda was constructed (completed in 1889). The Patiala state helped the British with a force, 1,100 strong, during the Afghan war of 1879. Maharaja Rajinder Singh took a keen interest in the promotion of sports, especially polo and cricket. He died on 8 November 1900 in the prime of his life. S.S.B.
SADHU SINGH AKALI (d. 1818), known for his daring exploits during the final Sikh assault on Multan under Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1818. On 2 June when the fort wall was breached by cannonading, Akali Sadhu Singh accompanied by a few of his companions rushed through the breach and closed in on the Afghan defenders. The old Nawab and his sons donned the green garb and with drawn swords "came out to answer the call of the angel of death." Nawab MuzaffarKhan, his two sons and a nephew were killed and so were Sadhu Singh and his men. But the citadel was captured by the Sikhs.
SAVAN SINGH, a cousin of Dasaundha Singh and Sangat Singh of the Nishanavah misi, distinguished himself by his heroic deeds in the latter half of the eighteenth century. He participated in the partition of the territory of Sirhind which was captured by the Sikhs in January 1764. He appropriated to himself several villages around Saunti where he finally settled down. His descendants lived at Mansurval in Firozpur district.
SUJAN SINGH, son of Amrik Singh of the village of Dhianpurin Amritsar district, belonged to Dallevalia misl. He was one of the claimants who figured in the partition of Sirhind territory of the Sikhs after the fall of the town in 1764. He along with his two brothers, Man Singh and Dan Singh, seized the pa.sga.nahs or tracts of Dharamkot and Man situated to the south of the Sutlej. The descendants of Sujan Singh heldJ`agirs at Shahkot for a long time.
TEJA SINGH SWATANTAR (1901-1973), Sikh preacher turned revolutionary, was born Samund Singh at Aluna, a village in Gurdaspur district of the Punjab, on 16 July 1901. His father`s name was Kirpal Singh. After finishing school, he joined Khalsa College at Amritsar where he took a leading part in organizing a meeting to protest against the atrocity committed by the British in the Jallianvala Bagh (13 April 1919). For this he had to leave the College. He joined the Akali Dal and took part in the agitation for the liberation of Sikh places of worship.