Bhai Tahil Singh (1875-1921), one of the Nankana Sahib martyrs, was born in 1875, the eldest son of Bhai Chanda Singh and Mai Rukko, Kamboj residents of Nizampur village in Amritsar district. On the opening of the Lower Chenab Canal Colony in western Punjab (now Pakistan), the family moved, in 1892, to Chakk No. 38 Nizampur Deva Singhvala in Sheikhupura area. In 1902 Tahil Singh went abroad to Malaya (now Malaysia) where he worked as a watchman in Kuala Lumpur. He came back to India in 1909 but left again after two years. In 1915 he finally returned home on his father's death. He began associating himself with progressive and reformist movements. He enlisted as a volunteer for the Rikabgahj agitation, preached reformists' policies and programmes in the surrounding villages, took an active