Bhai Vir Singh, popularly known as Father of Modern Punjabi Literature, was born at a time when the sikh community was going through a period of renaissance. Born in 1872, Bhai Vir Singhsoon became mainsourceofinspirationand brainbehind the Singh Sabha Movement. He devoted whole of his life in rejuvenating the Sikh community through his writings and through the institutions created by him. Bhai Vir Singh, along with other prominent Sikh leaders of the time, was responsible for the setting up of Chief Khalsa Diwan, Sikh Educational Society, Khalsa College, Amritsar and Punjab and Sind Bank.
Bhai Vir Singh's primary source of contact with the masses was through popular tracts which he produced in abundance and his major literary works had the stamp of profound scholarship.
Bhai Vir Singh established the Khalsa Tract Society and the Wazir-i-Hind Press and founded a Punjabi weekly paper, Khalsa Samachar, which is the only Punjabi weekly that has completed its centenary in 1999.In spite of his first rate writings and a spate of humanitarian work that Bhai Vir Singh undertook, he always chose to remain in the background. That is why it was not until in the late years of his life that his services to literature, arts, philosophy, religion and humanity became formally recognized. The Sahitya Academy and several other literary institutions honoured him and the GovenmentofIndia bestowed on him the Padma Bhushan.
Bhai Vir Singh Sahitya Sadan, a premier literary and cultural organization in the National Capital, was established in memory of this literary giant, and has been publishing Bhai Vir Singh’s work so that message of essential unity of humankind could reach the larger body of readers at home and abroad.
In view of growing popularity of Bhai Vir Singh’s writing, sadan has not only reprinted most of his original writings through modern technology, but has also taken up a major project of translating his works into English. After the publication of English translations of his novels sundri, Byai Singh and Satwant Kaur, Sadan takes pleasure in publishing a one volume English translation of Baba Naudh Singh, done by Prof. G .5. Talib. We also wish to acknowledgeall those well-wishers who have helped Sadan in this project.
Baba Naudh Singh is a saga of spiritual and social transformation brought about by a spiritually awakened, socially alert, sweetnatured, morally perfectSikh — Baba Naudh Singh, who believed in the spiritual transformation of humankind
Bhai Vir Singh Sahitya Sadan Dr. J. 5S. Neki New Delhi. or. Vice President