DYAL SINGH COLLEGE  was  founded in accordance with  the  will of Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia,  one of the  greatest sons of Punjab,  in  Lahore. Sardar Dyal Singh belonged to the  Shergil or Gill clan of Sardars of  Majitha village near Amritsar. He is also well-known as the Founder of The Tribune and one who bequeathed his largely self-earned assets including prestigious buildings in  Lahore and  lands in  Amritsar, Lahore and  Gurdaspur  districts worth about Rs.30 lakh in 1898  to two  trusts which established  Dyal Singh College and  Dyal Singh Public Library in Lahore.  Sardar Dyal Singh Majitha was a great  philanthropist and  lover of education.  A man of great vision and action,  he donated all  his assets  for the  propagation of  education. He had an unusually farsighted vision.  He wanted to generate a  scientific outlook in the  minds   of  the   common   people  who  suffered  from  blind  faith   and superstition. He  wanted to  eradicate  orthodox  and  irrelevant  views.

 A little lesser known fact is that Sardar Dyal Singh was one among the 17 “good men and true” who decided in 1884 to found the Indian National Congress. He sailed for England in 1874, and in his interactions  with  intellectual luminaries there,  he  gained  an enormous intellect. While in India,  he came  into  contact  with  many  architects  of  Modern  India such as  Rabindranath Tagore,  Swami Vivekanand, Swami Dayanand,  Dadabhai Naoroji Continue reading →