Bhagat Puran Singh, Founder Pingalwara, Amritsar

Bhagat Puran Singh, center

Bhagat Puran Singh was a Punjabi publisher of spiritual literature, environmentalist and founder of Pingalwara. He was born as Ramji Das in 1904 in village Rajewal near Ludhiana in northern Indian state of Punjab. Image File history File links Bhagat_Puran_Singh. ... Image File history File links Bhagat_Puran_Singh. ... Bhagat Puran Singh, Founder Pingalwara, Amritsar Bhagat Puran Singh with an inmate of Pingalwara. ... Amritsar (Punjabi: , , Hindi: . ), meaning Pool of the Nectar of Immortality, is the administrative headquarter of the Amritsar District in Punjab, India. ... Image File history File links Bhagat_Puran_Singh_BW.jpg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Bhagat_Puran_Singh_BW.jpg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Punjabi (also Panjabi; in Gurmukhī, Panjābī in Shāhmukhī) is the language of the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. ... Bhagat Puran Singh, Founder Pingalwara, Amritsar Bhagat Puran Singh with an inmate of Pingalwara. ... Ludhiana (Punjabi: ) in India is the largest city in Punjab. ...

In 1924 at age 19, Bhagat Puran Singh informally started a movement to look after destitutes which later grew into Pingalwara during the mayhem of partition of India. Bhagat Puran Singh, Founder Pingalwara, Amritsar Bhagat Puran Singh with an inmate of Pingalwara. ... Britains holdings on the Indian subcontinent were granted independence in 1947 and 1948, becoming four new independent states: India, Burma (now Myanmar), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and Pakistan (including East Pakistan, modern-day Bangladesh). ...

He was awarded National Padam Shree award by government of India in 1979, which he surrendedred after Indian army attack on Golden Temple in Amritsar. He was nominated for Nobel Prize in World Peace in 1991. The Golden Temple The Golden Temple is also known as Harmandir Sahib or Hari Mandir by the Sikhs. ... Amritsar (Punjabi: , , Hindi: . ), meaning Pool of the Nectar of Immortality, is the administrative headquarter of the Amritsar District in Punjab, India. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ...

He died in Amritsar on August 5, 1992. Amritsar (Punjabi: , , Hindi: . ), meaning Pool of the Nectar of Immortality, is the administrative headquarter of the Amritsar District in Punjab, India. ...