Sirdar Ajit Singh : (d.1947) led the nationalist movement in Punjab against increase of land-revenue & irrigation rules, & founded the Indian Patriots’ Association. Charged with inciting native troops, he was deported to Mandalay (q.v.) in 1907.
... find the Englishman groping about in an intellectual fog in search of such novelties as concession and reform, while in the Punjab itself the panic is taking the form of incipient terrorism. Sirdar Ajit Singh of the Lahore Patriots' Association has been doing admirable work among the masses. His most recent success has been to induce the Jat peasantry to boycott the Government canals as a protest against... Administration, published this remarkable order,—"Ajit Singh of Lahore is forbidden to address any public meeting in Multan district. If he disobeys, he will be arrested." The only result was that Sirdar Ajit Singh addressed a meeting of 15,000 men in defiance of this ukase and the police stood helplessly by. We pointed out in our last article on Passive Resistance that Government by ukase would always be ...
... against frank downward Russianism. For such last relics of the old superstitions, for such over-charitable speculation there is no longer any room. The whole country owes a debt of gratitude to Sirdar Ajit Singh and the Bharat Mata section of the Punjab Nationalists for forcing the hands of the bureaucracy and compelling them to change definitely indirect for direct methods of despotism. It has cleared ...
... programme, ultimately leading to India’s independence. At the time of the Surat Congress, December 1907 Front row left to right: G.S. Khaparde, Aswini Kumar Dutta Middle row: Sirdar Ajit Singh, Sri Aurobindo, B.G. Tilak, Saiyad Haider Reza Back row: Dr. B.S. Munje, Ramaswamy, K. Kuverji Desai Sri Aurobindo at Amravati, January 1908, after the Surat Congress Barin and ...
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