Concept
Vir Singh (writer)
Overview
Vir Singh (5 December 1872 – 10 June 1957) was a Sikh poet, scholar and theologist of the Sikh revival movement, playing an important part in the renewal of Punjabi literary tradition. He was an important figure of the Singh Sabha movement and is considered the father of modern Punjabi literature.
Vir Singh developed the Punjabi historical fiction genre with his four novels Sundari (1898), Bijay Singh (1899), Satwant Kaur (1900), and Baba Naudh Singh (serialized from October 1917 to December 1921), with the novel genre being imported from Europe. Vir Singh's newfound Punjabi novel genre helped promote Sikh code of conduct in the background of the Singh Sabha movement, focusing on themes of Sikh sacrifice, martyrdom, symbolism, conversion, rites, resilience, and survival during the Mughal and British periods.
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By his writings and his personal influence he was a great centre of light to his generation. During his later years he was quite as much the head and leader of the intellectual radicals in England, as Voltaire was of the _philosophes_ of France.
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
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He invented the heroic myth. The hero was a man who by himself had slain the father--the father who still appeared in the myth as a totemistic monster. Just as the father had been the boy's first ideal, so in the hero who aspires to the father's place the poet now created the first ego ideal. The transition to the hero was probably afforded by the youngest son, the mother's favourite, whom she had protected from…
Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego
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As his religion mingled itself with every motive and action of his life, the wish which in all his wanderings lay nearest his heart, the wish for the education of his son, was likely to be deeply tinctured with it. There is yet preserved, in his handwriting, a prayer composed in advanced age, wherein he mentions how, at the child's birth, he had entreated the great Father of all, "to supply in strength of spirit…
Thomas Carlyle, The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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Part of Nondualism.