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This
section provides a list of important and prominent figures
from Anglo-Sikh History which have been listed in alphabetical
order, according to ethnicity and time period.
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Was born on 28 March 1884, the son of Bhai Balaka Singh and Mai Nand
Kaur of Maryala Chatthian in Gujranwala district (now in Pakistan).
The family later shifted to Chakk No. 39 Vanotianvali in Sheikhupura
district. Varyam Singh, a straight forward and hardworking farmer,
received the rites of amrit at the hands of Bhai Mul Singh of Garmula
in 1903. The Dharovali conference (1-3 October 1920) marked the beginning
of his career as an Akali. From that conference he went to Sialkot
for the liberation of Gurdwara Babe di Ber (5 October 1920). On 19
February 1921, he accompanied Bhai Lachhman Singh Dharovali's band
of volunteers to Nankana Sahib where the entire jath5 was massacred
on 20 February 1921 by the hired assassins of Mahant Narain Das, the
Udasi custodian of Gurdwara Janam Asthan.
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