Sardar Swaran Singh was an Indian politician. He was India's longest serving union cabinet minister.

Saradar Swaran Singh was born on 19th August 1907 in Shankar Village in Jallandhar District of Punjab. He was born into an agricultural family.

He completed his intermediate (High school) ar Rahdhir College in Kapurthala. He then joined Government College, Lahore and completed a degree in Physics with honors.

He then worked as a lecturer in Physics in Khalsa College, Lyallpur. After leaving this job he studied law in Government law college in Lahore and received his L.L.B in 1932.

He started a law practice near his birth village in the nearby town of Jallandhar - he specialised in criminal suits.

In 1930s he joined the Akali Dal political party and by the mid forties he was a prominent leader in the mid 1940s. He played an important role in the compromise between the Indian national congress party and the Akali Dal in the early 1940s.

Just before the 1946 elections, the panthic party was formed with Baldev Singh as the leader and Sardar Swaran Singh was elected its deputy leader. In 1946 he was elected a member of the Punjab legislative assembly. He then became parliamentary secretary to the Punjab Coalition government.

Bhai Kanhaiya (1648–1718), was a Sikh of Guru Tegh Bahadur and was requested to establish the Sevapanthi or Addanshahi order of the Sikhs by Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Bhai Sahib was born in a Dhamman Khatri family of Sodhara near Wazirabad in Sialkot district (now in Pakistan). His father was a wealthy trader, but he himself being of a religious bent left home when still very young and roamed about with saddhus and ascetics in search of spiritual peace.

During his youth he also spent a lot of time in the company of Nanua Bairagi , who was also a disciple and comrade of last three Sikh gurus. Nanua Bairagi was a renonwed poet-mystic of Punjab and he left a deep imprint on Bhai Kanhaiya' spiritual and humanitarian outlook in his formative years.

His quest ended as he met Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621-75) and accepted initiation at his hands. Kanhaiya established a dharamsdhal at Kavha village in the present Attock district of Pakistan which he turned into a preaching centre. His special mission was selfless service of humanity with no distinction of nationality, caste or creed. In 1704–5, he was on a visit to Anandpur when the city was invaded by a combination of hill troops and the imperial Mughal army.

Lal Chand Yamla Jatt (Punjabi: ਲਾਲ ਚੰਦ ਯਮਲਾ ਜੱਟ), best known as Yamla Jatt or Ustad Ji, was a noted folk singer from Punjab. Yamla Jatt was widely revered as "ustad ji" (English: master) among his singer contemporaries and "yamla jatt" (short name) by his audience. His trademark was his soft strumming of tumbi and his turban tying style known traditionally as "Turla". The doyen of the Punjabi music and an artist who arguably laid the foundation of contemporary music in East Punjab.

He was born to Khera Ram and Harnam Kaur. His birthplace was Chakk no. 384 in Lyallpur district in Pakistan and after partition of India in 1947 he relocated to Jawahar nagar area, Ludhiana in India. He was trained in vocal singing by Pandit Dyall ji and Chaudhry Majid and his writing skills were honed by Sundar das aasi. He got married to Ram Rakhi in 1930, with whom he had two daughters and five sons. His eldest son is Kartar Chand and younger one is Jasdev Chand.

His most famous songs were "Das mein ki pyar wichon khatya" and "Satgur Nanak teri leela nyaari ae" and "Whisky di botal wargi". He recorded duet songs with Mohinderjit Kaur Sekhon, who was a recording artist with AIR, Jalandhar. He also popularized singing of Dulla Bhatti, Shahni Kaulan and Puran Bhagat. His first recording was with HMV in 1952 and till last he remained with HMV. He performed all over the world and many times performed with the late great Alam Lohar, they were also good friends. He also popularized Tumbi, a traditional North Indian instrument. Much of his music has been sampled by Panjabi MC.