Tara Singh (activist)

Master Tara Singh
Born(1885-06-24)24 June 1885[1]
Rawalpindi, Punjab, British India (present-day Pakistan)
Died22 November 1967(1967-11-22) (aged 82)[1]
Chandigarh, India[1]
NationalityIndian
Education Lyallpur Khalsa College, Lyallpur
Singh on a 1985 stamp of India

Tara Singh (24 June 1885 – 22 November 1967) was a Sikh political and religious figure in India in the first half of the 20th century. He was instrumental in organising the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee and guiding the Sikhs during the partition of India, which he strongly opposed.[2]

He later led their demand for a Sikh-majority state in East Punjab. His daughter was the Indian journalist and politician Rajinder Kaur.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference britannica was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Kudaisya, Gyanesh; Yong, Tan Tai (2004). The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia. Routledge. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-134-44048-1. No sooner was it made public than the Sikhs launched a virulent campaign against the Lahore Resolution. Pakistan was portrayed as a possible return to an unhappy past when Sikhs were persecuted and Muslims the persecutor. Public speeches by various Sikh political leaders on the subject of Pakistan invariably raised images of atrocities committed by Muslims on Sikhs and of the martyrdom of their gurus and heroes. Reactions to the Lahore Resolution were uniformly negative and Sikh leaders of all political persuasions made it clear that Pakistan would be 'wholeheartedly resisted'. The Shiromani Akali Dal, the party with a substantial following amongst the rural Sikhs, organized several well-attended conferences in Lahore to condemn the Muslim League. Singh, leader of the Akali Dal, declared that his party would fight Pakistan 'tooth and nail'. Not be outdone, other Sikh political organizations, rival to the Akali Dal, namely the Central Khalsa Young Men Union and the moderate and loyalist Chief Khalsa Dewan, declared in equally strong language their unequivocal opposition to the Pakistan scheme.
  3. ^ Rajinder Kaur, Dr. (Shrimati). Rajya Sabha Council of States
  4. ^ "Dr Rajinder Kaur (1931–1989)". Sikh history. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2014.