Giani Ditt Singh
- Born
- 1850
- Died
- 1901
- Nationality
- British Raj
- Occupation
- writer · poet · historian
- Languages
- Punjabi
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- 1.Giani Ditt Singh Library inaugurated in Melbourne. SinghStation. 21 February 2016.
- 2.Malhotra, Anshu. Living and Defining Caste: The Life and Writing of Giani Ditt Singh / Sant Ditta Ram. Journal of Punjab Studies. 20. 1. 159–192.
- 3.Author of over 50 books, a major forum for his writing was the Khalsa Akhbar, in which he wrote on current issues. Ditt Singh was an editor of this prominent Punjabi newspaper of the time.
- 4.Giani Ditt Singh, Khalsa Akhbar (Punjabi) of Lahore, May 25, 1894.
- 5.singh sabha movement.
- 6.For the Sikhs, strangely somnolent since the forfeiture of political authority, besides the awareness of rapid depletion in their numbers and of general laxity in religious observance among themselves, two other motivating factors were at work : a reaction to what. was happening in the neighbourly religious traditions and the defensiveness generated by Christian proselytization and the odhim theologicum started by Hindu critics especially the Arya Samajists.
- 7.As an educationist, he not only helped in the creation of Khalsa College, Amritsar, but also wrote textbooks for the students of the college.
- 8.Ditt Singh was able to have discussions with eminent religious scholars like Sadhu Dayanand.
- 9.Living and Defining Caste: The Life and Writing of Giani Ditt Singh.
- 10.Ditt Singh Giani.
- 11.To launch campaigns against social evils and initiate social welfare projects, hundreds' of youths formed a Welfare Society based on the philosophy of a renowned Sikh scholar and architect of Singh Sabha Lehar, Giani Ditt Singh today.
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