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In 1902 Tahil Singh went abroad to Malaya (now Malaysia) where he worked as a watchman in Kuala Lumpur. He came back to India in 1909 but left again after two years. In 1915 he finally returned home on his father's death. He began associating himself with progressive and reformist movements. He enlisted as a volunteer for the Rikabganj agitation, preached reformists' policies and programmes in the surrounding villages, cook an active part in the political conference held at Dharovali on 1-3 October 1920, participated in the liberation of Gurdwara Babe di ber, Sialkot, Gurdwara Khara Sauda, Chuharkana, and Sri Darbar Sahib, Tarn Taran. On 19 February 1921, he marshalled 20 volunteers
from his own village and joined the jatha led by Bhai Lachhman Singh
Dharovali proceeding to liberate Gurdwara Janam Asthan, Nankana
Sahib. As the jatha approached the shrine in the early morning of
20 February, Chaudhari Pal Singh Lyallpuri, a local leader, happened
to meet them and informed them about the Shiromani Committee's decision
to postpone action and advised them to go back. At this Bhai Tahil
Singh pushed forward and declared that they had said their ardas
and pledged their word to the Guru not to turn their back on their
resolution and that any retreat at that stage was unthinkable. At
this the entire jatha went at a sprint and entered the compound
of Gurdwara Janam Asthan where the hired assassins of Mahant Narain
Das, already alerted and equipped with lethal arms and material
for a mass pyre, butchered them en masse.
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