Punjabi scholar Darshan Singh passes away at 82

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 5

Dr Darshan Singh, Prof Emeritus of the Panjab University and renowned Punjabi and Sikh scholar, passed away yesterday at the age of 82.

His last rites were performed at the cremation ground of Sector 25 today. A large gathering of family, friends, students, teachers from different universities and colleges, members of the Panjab University, former Panjab University Vice-Chancellor Prof KN Pathak and Prof SP Singh, former Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, were present.

Prof Darshan Singh had played a long innings at the Panjab University where performed significantly as the chairman of the Department of Guru Nanak Sikh Studies and reader in Department of Punjabi and also an active member of the Panjab University Senate for 16 years.

Prof Darshan Singh was an eminent scholar of Sikh academia who has written several books in Punjabi and in English — Guru Granth Sahib translation and transliteration in English (five volumes), Indian Bhagati Tradition, Punjabi Bhasha, Pratinidh Adhiyatmic Varan, Religion of Guru Nanak, Sikh Art and Architecture, Asa di war: A Sikh Archetype, Japuji Sahib: Contexts and concerns of Guru Nanak, Poetics of Dasam Granth. More than 50 students had done their PhD research work under his supervision.

More than 50 students had done their PhD research work under his supervision. In 2018, Dr Darshan Singh was honoured with the Bhai Kahan Singh Nabha award by Punjabi University, Patiala. Prof Jaspal Kaur Kaang, academic coordinator of the Department of Guru Nanak Sikh Studies, said Dr Darshan Singh’s death was a great loss.

The ‘Antim Ardas’ will be held on January 11 at Gurdwara Guru Arjun Dev Ji, Sector 40-B.