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Was born at Bahoru village in Amritsar district in 1881, the son
of Bhai Atar Singh and Mai Nihal Kaur. His schooling was interrupted
owing to his father's death. But the desire to learn was so strong
in him that at the age of 26, he joined the Khalsa Pracharak Vidyala,
Tarn Taran, and spent four years there studying Sikh history and
philosophy, besides practising kirtan. In 1915 he joined the Khalsa
school at Jhabal in Amritsar district as a Punjabi teacher. Ishar
Singh returned to his native place to become the custodian of the
village gurdwara.
When Bhai Lachhman Singh gave the call for the liberation of Gurdwara
Janam Asthan at Nankana Sahib, he joined his jatha and fell a martyr
in the shower of bullets rained upon it by the local keeper of the
shrine and his men on the morning of 20 February 1921.
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