Teja Singh

Teja Singh was an Indian Sikh scholar, teacher, author and translator.

Biography

Teja Singh was born on 2 June 1894, in Adiala village, Rawalpindi district, Punjab Province, British India to parents Bhai Bhalakar Singh and Srusti. He grazed livestock and studied within the village until 1908, then he moved to Rawalpindi city to garner a further and better education. Originally from a sehajdhari background, he became baptized into the Khalsa.

Books Books in English Growth of Responsibility in Sikhism (1919) The Asa-di-Var (1926) Highroads of Sikh History, in three volumes (1935), published by Orient Longman Sikhism: Its Ideals and Institutions, published by Orient Longman Punjabi-English Dictionary, revised and edited for Lahore University English-Punjabi Dictionary, Vol.1 (Punjabi University Solan).