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Christian Saint from India

This article is about the Indian Christian Saint. For the Indian landowner and politician, see Sundar Singh Majithia.

For the Indian Paralympian, see Sundar Singh Gurjar.

St. Sundar Singh (3 September 1889 – 1929, believed), who is commonly referred as Sadhu Sundar Sing, was an Indian Christian missionary and sadhu.

He is believed to have died in the foothills of the Himalayas in 1929.

Life

Early years

Sundar Singh was birthed into a Sikh^[1][2] family in the village of Rampur (near Doraha), Ludhiana district (Punjab state), in northern India.

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Singh's mother took him to sit at the feet of a Hindu sadhu, an ascetic holy man, who lived in the jungle some miles away, while also sending him to Ewing Christian High School, Ludhiana, to learn English. Singh's mother died when he was fourteen.

In anger, he burned a Bible page by page while his friends watched.^[1] He was also taught the Bha