Sewaram Singh Thapar

Sewaram Singh Thapar was a Sikh writer active during the Singh Sabha movement. He is credited as being the first Sikh to write a work refuting the previous works of Western writers on the topic of Sikh history.

Biography Originally from a sehajdhari background, he became baptized into the Khalsa. He was originally a lawyer and later a District and Sessions Judge. He, alongside Khazan Singh and Bhagat Lakshman Singh, belonged to a group of English-educated and middle-class Sikh writers in the early 20th century whom wrote with the idea that they were correcting previous works by Western writers that they believed misrepresented the Sikhs. Judging previous writers, Sewaram agreed more with Joseph Davey Cunningham and refuted the conclusions drawn on the Sikh religion by Ernest Trumpp. Sewaram Singh authored The Divine Master in 1904, a monograph on Guru Nanak. His son was Major General Harkirat Singh, who was involved with Hemkund Sahib and the Baba Nanak Shrine in Iraq.