Maharaj Sardar Bahadur Jagat Singh was a Professor of Chemistry and later Vice Principal of Punjab Agricultural College, Lyallpur. After his retirement, he attained renown as the spiritual successor of Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh, becoming thereby the third successive guru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas, an organization associated with the Sant Mat movement within the Sikh community.
He was granted the Sikh honor Sardar Bahadur by the British, who ruled India at the time, for his 32 years of "meritorious service to the Empire" as an educator, and is frequently afforded the honorific Maharaj (literally "great king") in recognition of his secular and religious accomplishments.Maharaj Sardar Bahadur Jagat Singh was a Professor of Chemistry and later Vice Principal of Punjab Agricultural College, Lyallpur. After his retirement, he attained renown as the spiritual successor of Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh, becoming thereby the third successive guru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas, an organization associated with the Sant Mat movement within the Sikh community.
He was granted the Sikh honor Sardar Bahadur by the British, who ruled India at the time, for his 32 years of "meritorious service to the Empire" as an educator, and is frequently afforded the honorific Maharaj (literally "great king") in recognition of his secular and religious accomplishments....more