Biography of Sardar Puran Singh in Hindi Language.
Editor’s Note: Below is a letter written by Bhagat Puran Singh to the president of India upon receiving the Padam Shree award for his work with the disabled. After witnessing the atrocities of 1984, Bhagat Puran Singh couldn’t accept an award from a genocidal government with good conscience.
Bhagat Puran Singh was awarded the Padma Shri for recognition of his social work in 1981. Bhagat Puran Singh's letter. Bhagat Puran Singh was outraged by the Sikh Genocide of 1984. As a peaceful man, who put the needs of others before his own, Bhagat Puran Singh was horrified by the cruel and unjust actions of the government and military.
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When Sardar Tohra asked him not to smoke (in the holy precincts), his reply was, “shut up old-man or I will shoot you dead. Temple servants of Sri Darbar Sahib Muktsar, were made to lie face downwards in the circumambulatory path around the sacred tank and beaten mercilessly All those boys who had taken amrit were pulled out of their homes in the villages and were beaten severely.
INTRODUCTION. The manuscript of Spirit of the Sikh, as left by Professor Puran Singh, is in three large-sized typed volumes, corrected at numerous places in the author’s hand along with additional matter which suggested itself to him after the typing had been done.
Bhagat Puran Singh Ji (File Photo) Following text is reproduction of Bhagat Puran Singh Jee’s rejection letter to the Indian Government renouncing the honour of Padam Shree (the fourth highest civilian award in India, awarded by the government) after Indian army’s attack on Darbar Sahib (Amritsar).
Puran Singh acquired a mythical status for winding up on the other side of the world. For a long time, our house was known as Amerika-wallan da Kar, the house of the Americans. The second part of the house was built in the late 1950s with my grandfather Bawa Singh’s earnings from his work at a Dunlop factory in Coventry, England.