Vir Singh, Bhai

Vir Singh, Bhai

▪ Indian writer and theologian
born 1872, Punjab, India
died 1957, Punjab

      Sikh writer and theologian who was chiefly responsible for raising the Punjabi language to a literary level never before attained.

      He wrote at a time when Sikh religion and politics and the Punjabi language were under such strong attack by the English and Hindus that the Sikhs had begun to doubt the value of their way of life. With his versatile pen, he extolled Sikh courage, philosophy, and ideals, gathering respect for the Punjabi language as a literary vehicle. The core of his philosophy is that man must overcome his pride or ego before he can realize God. Once the battle of self is won, man can then know God in all of his manifestations.

      Bhai Vir Singh founded the weekly paper Khālsā Samācār (“News of the Khalsa”) in Amritsar (1899), where it is still published. Among his novels are Kalgīdlur Camathār (1935), a novel on the life of the 17th-century gurū Gobind Singh, and Gurū Nānak Camathār, 2 vol. (1936; “Stories of Guru Nanak”), a biography of the originator of the Sikh religion. Other novels on Sikh philosophy and martial excellence include Sundarī (1943), Bijai Singh (1899), and Bābā Noudh Singh (1946). He used poetical and literary forms never before known to Punjabi, such as short metre and blank verse. His poem “The Vigil” was published posthumously. The Punjab University recognized his contribution by awarding him an honorary doctorate.

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