Teja Singh Samundri Digital Heritage Archive1882–1926 · evidence-first digital heritage

Claim record · DOS-III.PARTNERSHIP

The working partnership with Master Tara Singh (family account)

D Family account Family family account

From the family’s account — attributed testimony, not independently documented fact

Family accounts describe the working partnership with Master Tara Singh: that Samundri, despite minimal formal schooling, supplied strategic and political judgment, while the better-educated Tara Singh set it down on paper and carried it into print. The same accounts hold that Tara Singh, after Samundri’s death, pressed both the British and the independent Indian state to recognise him formally as a prisoner of conscience and freedom fighter. Neither claim is independently documented.

This is the exact wording approved for public display. It is never strengthened beyond what the tier — Family testimony — oral or privately transmitted account — permits.

Evidence

Tier
D Family account Family oral history, undocumented. Never published as fact; only as explicitly labelled family account.
Sources
“Teja Singh Samundri, the moral force behind gurdwara reform” — The Tribune, Taranjit Singh Sandhu
Attribution
Family accounts, as published in 2026
Register
Family account — attributed testimony, kept separate from the documented record
What would change it
Tara Singh’s own writings, or government correspondence on recognition of political prisoners.
Reviewed
· Master Research Dossier Part III

Connections

People
Master Tara Singh

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Permanent URL
https://tejasinghsamundri.org/claims/partnership-with-tara-singh/
Chicago
“The working partnership with Master Tara Singh (family account) (claim DOS-III.PARTNERSHIP).” Teja Singh Samundri Digital Heritage Archive. Reviewed September 10, 2026. https://tejasinghsamundri.org/claims/partnership-with-tara-singh/.
MLA
“The working partnership with Master Tara Singh (family account) (claim DOS-III.PARTNERSHIP).” Teja Singh Samundri Digital Heritage Archive, September 10, 2026, https://tejasinghsamundri.org/claims/partnership-with-tara-singh/.
Plain text
The working partnership with Master Tara Singh (family account) (claim DOS-III.PARTNERSHIP) — Teja Singh Samundri Digital Heritage Archive — https://tejasinghsamundri.org/claims/partnership-with-tara-singh/ (page last reviewed 2026-09-10)
BibTeX
@misc{tssclaimspartnershipwithtarasingh2026,
  title = {The working partnership with Master Tara Singh (family account) (claim DOS-III.PARTNERSHIP)},
  howpublished = {Teja Singh Samundri Digital Heritage Archive},
  year = {2026},
  month = {sep},
  url = {https://tejasinghsamundri.org/claims/partnership-with-tara-singh/},
  note = {Page last reviewed 2026-09-10}
}
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