Bhai Hira Singh Dard

Bhai Hira Singh Dard: Letters, Journalism, and the Writing of Sikh History

This course studies the life-in-letters of Giani Hira Singh Dard (1889-1965), a Punjabi poet, journalist, and editor who came of age during the Gurdwara Reform (Akali) movement. We read him as a maker of modern Punjabi prose and verse, as the founding editor of the monthly Phulwari and an assistant editor of the…