SINGH, Teja. The Sikh Prayer. [Lahore, Akali Patrika Press for] Messrs Jaidev Singh, Jogindar Singh in Amritsar, [c. 1921].
8vo. Original mauve printed wrappers, wire-stitched; pp. [ii], 22; apart from light fading near spine and a little oxidization to wire-stitching, fine.
Very rare. Probably first edition, as WorldCat lists a 1923 fourth edition of this title, published by the Sikh Tract Society, Amritsar in 1923. 'Honorably referred to as both Professor and Principal, Sardar Teja Singh is one of the shining stars in the Sikh literary world. He dominated the Sikh English writing scene for well over half of the earlier twentieth century. He was a distinguished teacher, a Sikh scholar of history and theology, and a commanding translator of the Sikh canon, Guru Granth Sahib … He was recognized in public as an anti-British activist … Prof. Teja Singh later resigned from his post along with twelve other Sikh colleagues to protest the government’s control of the educational institute. He became active in the Akali movement, because of which he was arrested in 1923, and kept in Amritsar and Lahore jails for well over a year' (SHIKRI.org). The Akali Patrika was and is a Sikh-led newspaper in Punjabi, founded in about 1920, and repeatedly suppressed.
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