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Dal Singh was born on 8 Assu 1942 Bk /
23 September 1885, the son of Bhai Musadda Singh and Mai Gulabi,
a Kamboj couple of Nizampur village in Amritsar district. The family
later migrated to Chakk No. 38 Nizampur Deva Singhvala in the newly
developed canal district of Sheikhupura, now in Pakistan. Dal Singh
remained illiterate, but had committed to memory several of the
religious and historical compositions. He also listened regularly
to the local granthi reading from the Akali, a newspaper floated
by Akali reformers in May 1920. He had already received the pahul
or vows of the Khalsd. He was one of the fifteen Sikhs of his village
who joined Bhai Lachhman Singh Dharovali's jatha or batch of volunteers
and laid down their lives for the liberation of Gurdwara Janam Asthan,
Nankana Sahib, on 20 February 1921.
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